Mark Lemhouse”s debut release delivers string-strangling, gut-rocking blues ecstasy. Lemhouse reaches into a wicked toolbox – containing resonator chainsaw, electric tube-amp machete, and bottleneck auger – to uproot blues tradition with a vandal”s glee. Recorded to analog tape with vintage mics at Easley/McCain Studios in Memphis, Big Lonesome Radio has a gritty feel that”s more akin to a Howlin” Wolf or Jimmy Reed than a young man playing the blues in the 21st century has a right to sound. Melding together influences from Delta blues, Piedmont rag-style forms, and North Mississippi trance blues, Lemhouse”s notes come across like crackling radio transmissions from a time gone by.

Track Listing

• You Can”t Get That Stuff No More
• What”s the Matter with Papa”s Little Angel Child
• Baby Sister Blues
• Jealous Moon
• Tappin” That Thing
• Electra 225
• Edwin”s Lament
• No One Can Forgive Me But My Baby
• Mercy Mia
• Pony Blues
• One Hand Loose
• Driftin”

Additional Details

Label: Yellow Dog Records

Genre: Blues

Release Date: 07/07/06

UPC: 823800103821