Jon Spencer
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Jon Spencer (born February 5,[1] 1965) is an American singer, composer and guitarist. He has been involved in multiple musical acts, such as Pussy Galore, Boss Hog, Heavy Trash and The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
History
Jon Spencer was born on 5 February 1965[1] in Hanover, New Hampshire, to a university professor and a cardiology technician.[2] He attended Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, where he was part of the noise rock band Shithaus, which included future Cop Shoot Cop vocalist Tod Ashley.[3] The band was short lived and had a musical style reminiscent of the industrial music of Einstürzende Neubauten.[4] He moved to Washington, D.C., and formed Pussy Galore, who quickly relocated to New York.
He is also known for bringing attention to and popularizing the blues artist R. L. Burnside, who started touring and working with The Blues Explosion in the mid-1990s after playing and living in obscurity for three decades.
In 2022, he announced the end of the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion and the debut of his new band, Jon Spencer & the Hitmakers, which includes Quasi's Sam Coomes and Janet Weiss.[5]
He joined up with bassist Kendall Wind and drummer Macky Spider Bowman of The Bobby Lees in 2023[6] and released Sick Of Being Sick! in 2024.[7]
References
External links
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- 1965 births
- American rock guitarists
- American male guitarists
- American rock singers
- American male singer-songwriters
- American rock songwriters
- Noise rock musicians
- Living people
- Singers from New Hampshire
- American noise musicians
- Musicians from Hanover, New Hampshire
- Pussy Galore (band) members
- Guitarists from New Hampshire
- 20th-century American guitarists
- 20th-century American male musicians
- Brown University alumni