View basket “Dirty Pool” has been added to your basket. 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 Muddy Waters The Rough Guide to Muddy Waters: Country Blues Blues | Rough Guides | 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 27th May 2011 £10.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Muddy Waters The Rough Guide to Muddy Waters: Country Blues £10.00 Genre: Blues Label: Rough Guides SKU: RGNET1233LP Formats: 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 27th May 2011 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Kenny Wayne Shepherd Goin’ Home Blues | Provogue | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve Released 17th November 2023 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Kenny Wayne Shepherd Goin’ Home £23.00 Genre: Blues Label: Provogue SKU: PRD743812 Formats: 2LP, Coloured Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 17th November 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nearly New View Product Quick View Chick Churchill You & Me Blues | Chrysalis | 1LP Released 7th February 2023 £12.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Chick Churchill You & Me £12.00 Genre: Blues Label: Chrysalis SKU: nn257553 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 7th February 2023 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Milt Jackson & Ray Charles Soul Brothers Blues | ORG | 180g, 1LP Released 22nd August 2017 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Milt Jackson & Ray Charles Soul Brothers £17.00 Genre: Blues Label: ORG SKU: LP9152259 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 22nd August 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Adrian Crowley & James Yorkston My Yoke Is Heavy: The Songs Of Daniel Johnston Blues | Chemikal Underground | 180g, 1LP, Includes CD Released 6th December 2013 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Adrian Crowley & James Yorkston My Yoke Is Heavy: The Songs Of Daniel Johnston £16.00 Genre: Blues Label: Chemikal Underground SKU: CHEM203 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Includes CD Released Date: 6th December 2013 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Eric Krasno Always Blues | Provogue | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 22nd October 2021 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Eric Krasno Always £20.00 Genre: Blues Label: Provogue SKU: 810020505047 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 22nd October 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View King Solomon Hicks Harlem Blues | Provogue | 180g, 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 13th March 2020 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders King Solomon Hicks Harlem £18.00 Genre: Blues Label: Provogue SKU: 0819873018490 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 13th March 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Graham Bond Organization, The There’s A Bond Between Us Blues | Repertoire | 180g, 1LP Released 16th February 2018 £28.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Graham Bond Organization, The There’s A Bond Between Us £28.00 Genre: Blues Label: Repertoire SKU: V249 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 16th February 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Stevie Ray Vaughan In Step Blues | Analogue Productions | 180g, 2LP, 45rpm, Gatefold Sleeve Released 18th April 2017 £55.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Stevie Ray Vaughan In Step £55.00 Genre: Blues Label: Analogue Productions SKU: AAPB099-45 Formats: 180g, 2LP, 45rpm, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 18th April 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Rock Candy Funk Party The Groove Cubed Blues | Provogue | 180g, 2LP, Includes Download Code Released 27th October 2017 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Rock Candy Funk Party The Groove Cubed £20.00 Genre: Blues Label: Provogue SKU: 0819873015680 Formats: 180g, 2LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 27th October 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Blues Start again
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