Lollipop Magazine

Spiritualized announce Everything Was Beautiful – News

November 26, 2021

Spiritualized has announced their forthcoming ninth album, Everything Was Beautiful, out February 25, 2022 on Fat Possum.

First Royal Trux Album in 19 Years – News

January 11, 2019

The first Royal Trux album in 19 years, White Stuff, is out March 1 on Fat Possum. Listen to the title track, “White Stuff,” here.

The Black Keys – Chulahoma – Review

November 10, 2006

Chulahoma is the band’s own personal Kimbrough tribute, a six-song EP that closes out the band’s tenure with Kimbrough’s one-time home, Fat Possum.

Deadboy and the Elephantmen – We Are Night Sky – Interview

August 18, 2006

An interview with vocalist Dax Riggs

Deadboy and the Elephantmen – We Are Night Sky – Review

March 3, 2006

The fatalistic beauty seems more urgent. Dax’s vocals and guitar (both often distorted) and Tessie Brunet’s feral drumming and lovely harmony vocals are here.

Nathaniel Mayer – I Just Want to Be Held – Review

December 21, 2004

You don’t have to be a fanatic or a geek to appreciate the raw beauty of Mayer’s Fortune recordings, and you don’t have to be one to love this album, either.

20 Miles – Life Doesn’t Rhyme – Review

March 15, 2004

Half-assed blues from one-third of JSBX. Judah Bauer plays the kind of music that makes you think, “Hey, that Jon Spencer is a pretty good guitarist, isn’t he?”

Robert Belfour – Pushin’ My Luck – Review

October 1, 2003

Country blues, acoustic guitar, sedate mutterings & rarely a standard 12-bar blues in sight. No SRV/Skynard/white boy bar band massacre of a pentatonic scale.

R.L. Burnside – First Recordings – Review

October 1, 2003

He’s got an attitude the size of a Mac truck, and a personality with the power to knock you down. This is the raw element, where it all began, the fountainhead.

Joe Callicott – Ain’t A Gonna Lie To You – Review

October 1, 2003

Joe Callicott isn’t the gritty Delta-style blues guy you would expect. His is a light, smooth style, not so much polished as greased.

Junior Kimbrough – You Better Run – Review

January 10, 2003

You Better Run compiles songs from the three albums released on Fat Possum during his life and does a nice job of representing them all.

Mississippi Fred McDowell – Mama Says I’m Crazy – Review

January 3, 2003

Recorded in a house in a couple of hours in 1965 by Mississippi Fred McDowell and Johnny Woods. These two old friends hadn’t played together in eight years.

T-Model Ford – Bad Man – Review

January 3, 2003

Bad Man is raw like a wound scrubbed with steel wool, jagged like the neck snapped from a bottle of Thunderbird ESQ, and chock full of soul and attitude.

Solomon Burke – Don’t Give Up On Me – Review

November 15, 2002

A contemporary of legends like Wilson Pickett and Otis Redding, Solomon Burke made a series of incredible recordings in the ’60s and ’70s. And then he vanished.

Asie Payton – Just Do Me Right – Review

May 31, 2002

Some is the straight-forward blues Payton played at home, bars, and bait shops around Washington County, Mississippi. Some of it’s goosed-up with studio beats.

Robert Pete Williams – Review

February 22, 2002

Robert Pete Williams passed away back in 1980, wasted by cancer; an original talent pretty much ignored by the market and most of his contemporaries.

R.L. Burnside – Mississippi Hill Country Blues – Review

February 22, 2002

The newish Mississippi Hill Country Blues material has been available in Europe since the mid-’80s and was recorded between 1980 and 1984.

Not the Same Old Blues Crap II – Review

February 22, 2002

Sad truth is the Blues is whitherin’, tho’ not dead, not yet, as Fat Possum proves over and over again by releasin’ records like this.

Robert Belfour – What’s Wrong with You – Review

June 1, 2000

Fat Possum release this comparatively restrained set o’ songs by one Robert Belfour. He’s a guitar player, to be sure, but a madman, I think not.

T-Model Ford – She Ain’t None of Your’n – Review

June 1, 2000

T-Model Ford, perhaps the hardest-workin’ septuagenarian in show biz, has released his third record in as many years.

Super Chikan – What You See – Review

April 1, 2000

Not the usual head-cuttin’ stompin’ blues curiosity the label specializes in. James “Super Chikan” Johnson’s soulful elaborations on old themes will win fans.

Bob Log III – Trike – Review

January 1, 2000

The guy’s so off the beaten path that he’s even weird for Fat Possum. Is it even blues? Fucked up new style blues from some avant-geek from Arizona.

The Neckbones – The Lights are Getting Dim – Review

January 1, 2000

Unselfconscious, unrepentant rock’n’roll music about drinkin’, screwin’, gamblin’, and shooting out the window’s of yer ex’s car “just for fun.”

The Country Teasers – Destroy All Human Life – Interview

January 1, 2000

A summarized interview with singer Ben Waller

Bob Log III – School Bus – Review

September 1, 1999

Blues purists may dismiss this slab o’ anarchic slide guitar’n’bass drum voodoo as mere hipster shuck’n’jive gimmickry. It’s sure not the “same old blues crap.”