Artist......: The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Album.......: Mo' Width
Source......: CD
Label.......: Au Go Go
Genre.......: Rock
Tracks......: 11
Bitrate.....: 780 kbps avg
Playtime....: 00:32:08 (188.MB)
Rls date....: 2025-08-06
Store date..: 1994-12-02
Encoder.....: FLAC 1.3.1
Url.........: http://www.facebook.com/thejonspencerbluesexplosion/
01 Afro 2:42
02 Out Of Luck 1:49
03 Cherry Lime 2:28
04 Rob K 3:47
05 Ole Man Trouble 2:22
06 Wet Cat Blues 3:06
07 Johnson 4:14
08 There Stands The Glass 1:15
09 Lion Cut 4:02
10 Beat Of The Traps 2:50
11 Memphis Soul Typecast 3:33
Just as the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion released Crypt Style almost
concurrently with their 1992 debut album, the sessions for their second
"official" album, Extra Width, produced enough outtakes to fill a sibling
LP, and close to the same time Extra Width arrived in stores, Au-Go-Go
Records in Australia released Mo' Width, which featured 11 more tracks from
Spencer and company. While Crypt Style was actually a better album than The
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Mo' Width runs a close second to Extra Width;
like Crypt Style, Mo' Width is a wilder-sounding and more energetic set
than its better-known counterpart, and it even leads off with the same
song, an alternate take of "Afro." But while the performances on Mo' Width
are fiery and the band cooks with gas on "Out of Luck" and "Wet Cat Blues,"
this album has some obvious filler, most notably a goofy cover of "There
Stands the Glass" that doesn't go anywhere and a noise collage build around
the song-poem "Beat of the Traps" that's never as weird as the original,
hard as it tries. And while JSBX cut a mighty Stax-style groove on the
closer, "Memphis Soul Typecast," as soon as Cristina Martinez pops up to
giggle her way though a description of the day's soul food special, it
loses its balance. There's enough that's good on Mo' Width to make it
worthwhile for loyal Blues Explosion fans, but casual admirers will get
along without it just fine.