Death and the Blues Mark Porkchop Holder SKU: LPALIVE0195 Barcode: 0095081019515 19.00 £19.00 Genre: Blues Label: Alive Released Date: 2nd January 2018 Buying Format: 1LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Mark ‘Porkchop’ Holder originally turned the blues on its head more than a decade ago as a founding member of punk/blues band Black Diamond Heavies. While he’s been tearing up juke joints, festivals and dive bars since then with his own fiery brand of the blues, it wasn’t until earlier this year that the Tennessee musician released his own debut solo album, Let It Slide, an acclaimed effort that No Depression described as, ‘…fire in a barrel. If the Rolling Stones camped with Howlin’ Wolf and Billy Gibbons on trucker speed for the weekend with a fuzz pedal, this would be its precious procreation.’ Now just nine months later, the guitar-slinging, harp-shredding bluesman is releasing his follow-up album, Death and the Blues. On it, Holder, along with Travis Kilgore (bass) and Doug Bales (drums), builds on the success of his previous album with eight newly penned tracks, along with three rousing covers. Despite the fact that this was recorded in the same studio as their last album (Tiny Buzz in Chattanooga, TN) and by the same line-up, the results are much heavier and tighter on this affair, with Holder’s inventive slide guitar-work snarling and baring teeth over the rock-solid rhythms from Kilgore and Bales.’ Blues is the music of poor people, and poor people live closer to death than other people do, Holder admits. The message of the title track is simple: death and the blues are real. I have a personal connection with the symbols of death; they remind me not to waste my time.” Artist Mark Porkchop Holder Genre Blues Label Alive Buying Options 1LP Format 1LP Condition New Country United Kingdom Track Listings Captain Captain Sad Days And Lonely Nights Coffin Lid Big Boat Nobody Wants To Cry Be Righteous Bless Me Santasima Billy The Kid James Leg What Is Wrong With Your Mind Death And The Blues Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Mark Porkchop Holder and more from Blues View Product Quick View Mark Porkchop Holder Let It Slide Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Alive | 1LP Released 24th February 2017 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Mark Porkchop Holder Let It Slide £22.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Alive SKU: LPALIVE0188 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 24th February 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Various Artists Essential Detroit Blues Blues | Not Now Music | 180g, 2LP Released 1st October 2013 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Various Artists Essential Detroit Blues £22.00 Genre: Blues Label: Not Now Music SKU: LPNOT2LP162 Formats: 180g, 2LP Released Date: 1st October 2013 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Buffalo Summer Second Sun Blues | UDR | 1LP Released 17th May 2016 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Buffalo Summer Second Sun £19.00 Genre: Blues Label: UDR SKU: UDR053P48 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 17th May 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Erja Lyytinen The Sky Is Crying Blues | Bluesland / Tuohi Records | 1LP Released 6th October 2014 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Erja Lyytinen The Sky Is Crying £17.00 Genre: Blues Label: Bluesland / Tuohi Records SKU: THC001LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 6th October 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Honey Island Swamp Band Demolition Day Blues | Ruf Records | 1LP Released 27th January 2017 £25.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Honey Island Swamp Band Demolition Day £25.00 Genre: Blues Label: Ruf Records SKU: RUF2030 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 27th January 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Rory Gallagher Deuce Blues | UMC | 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 14th March 2018 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Rory Gallagher Deuce £18.00 Genre: Blues Label: UMC SKU: 5797696 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 14th March 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Rides, The (Stephen Stills, Kenny Wayne Shepherd & Barry Goldberg) Can’t Get Enough Blues | Provogue | 180g, 1LP Released 26th August 2013 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Rides, The (Stephen Stills, Kenny Wayne Shepherd & Barry Goldberg) Can’t Get Enough £16.00 Genre: Blues Label: Provogue SKU: PRD74121 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 26th August 2013 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Various Artists The Rise & Fall Of Paramount Records Vol. 1 (1917 – 1920) Blues | Third Man Records / Revenant | Box Set Released 18th November 2013 £575.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Various Artists The Rise & Fall Of Paramount Records Vol. 1 (1917 – 1920) £575.00 Genre: Blues Label: Third Man Records / Revenant SKU: TMR203RVN215 Formats: Box Set Released Date: 18th November 2013 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Joe Bonamassa Blues Deluxe Blues | Provogue | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 1st July 2022 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Joe Bonamassa Blues Deluxe £22.00 Genre: Blues Label: Provogue SKU: PRD715812 Formats: 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 1st July 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Blind Boy Fuller Truckin’ My Blues Away Blues | Yazoo | 180g, 1LP Released 1st March 2013 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Blind Boy Fuller Truckin’ My Blues Away £17.00 Genre: Blues Label: Yazoo SKU: YAZOO1060 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 1st March 2013 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Lightnin' Slim Rooster Blues Blues | Rumble Records | 1LP Released 3rd July 2014 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Lightnin' Slim Rooster Blues £16.00 Genre: Blues Label: Rumble Records SKU: RUM2011064LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 3rd July 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Blues Start again
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