View basket “Keb Mo” 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 Gary Moore Wild Frontier Blues | UMC | 180g, 1LP Released 16th January 2017 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Gary Moore Wild Frontier £18.00 Genre: Blues Label: UMC SKU: 5707113 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 16th January 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Wild Child Butler Direct To Disc Blues | APO Records | 180g, 1LP Released 17th August 2015 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Wild Child Butler Direct To Disc £18.00 Genre: Blues Label: APO Records SKU: AAPO004 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 17th August 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View John Lee Hooker Burning Hell Blues | Pan Am Records | 180g, 1LP Released 16th June 2023 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders John Lee Hooker Burning Hell £16.00 Genre: Blues Label: Pan Am Records SKU: 9152324 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 16th June 2023 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 Apocalypse Blues Revue, The Apocalypse Blues Revue Blues | Provogue | 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 22nd August 2016 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Apocalypse Blues Revue, The Apocalypse Blues Revue £17.00 Genre: Blues Label: Provogue SKU: PRD75081 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 22nd August 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Leslie West Soundcheck Blues | Provogue | 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released 20th November 2015 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Leslie West Soundcheck £17.00 Genre: Blues Label: Provogue SKU: PRD74641 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released Date: 20th November 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Doug Macleod Break The Chain Blues | Reference Recordings | 180g, 2LP Released 19th September 2018 £52.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Doug Macleod Break The Chain £52.00 Genre: Blues Label: Reference Recordings SKU: AREF2519 Formats: 180g, 2LP Released Date: 19th September 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Lonnie Mack / Stevie Ray Vaughan Strike Like Lightning Blues | Alligator Records | 1LP Released 30th June 2023 £24.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Lonnie Mack / Stevie Ray Vaughan Strike Like Lightning £24.00 Genre: Blues Label: Alligator Records SKU: LPAL4739 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 30th June 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View James Cotton Mighty Long Time Blues | New West | 180g, 2LP, Includes Download Code Released 30th October 2015 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders James Cotton Mighty Long Time £21.00 Genre: Blues Label: New West SKU: ANT3501 Formats: 180g, 2LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 30th October 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Melvin Taylor Dirty Pool Blues | Pure Pleasure | 180g, 1LP Released 30th April 2021 £34.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Melvin Taylor Dirty Pool £34.00 Genre: Blues Label: Pure Pleasure SKU: PPANECD26088 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 30th April 2021 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket See more in Blues Start again
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