Lollipop Magazine

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.”

Asie Payton – Worried – Review

September 1, 1999

Traditional blues standards interpreted by a guy who sounds like a more soulful Howlin’ Wolf who played a cheapo trebly electric Fender rip-off of some sort.

T Model Ford – You Better Keep Still – Review

April 1, 1999

No sophomore slump. One of the rawest, ass-whompin’est blues talents to stalk outta nowhere since people knew what the fuck “antediluvian” meant.

Chapter VII: All Men are Liars – Review

April 1, 1999

If you want empirical proof that the Blues are still around us, livin’ and breathin’ and bleedin’, look no further than Fat Possum Records of Oxford, MS.

The Neckbones – Souls on Fire – Review

October 1, 1997

Not an elderly Mississippi bluesman with a bottomless reservoir of righteous anger. Instead, we get four deadend kids who dig drinkin’, drivin’, and gamblin’.

Twenty Miles – Twenty Miles & R.L. Boyce, Othar Turner, Fife and Drum Spam – Review

September 1, 1997

You probably know Judah Bauer from his time spent in Jon Spencer’s shadow. He steps out a bit here on this effort with his brother, Donovan.