Jon Spencer (born February 5,
1965) is an American singer, composer and guitarist. He has been involved in multiple musical acts, such as
Pussy Galore,
Boss Hog
Boss Hog is an American punk blues band including the husband and wife duo of Jon Spencer (guitar) and Cristina Martinez (vocals) along with Jens Jurgensen (bass), Hollis Queens (drums) and Mickey Finn (keyboard).
The band achieved some notorie ...
,
Heavy Trash and
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
History
Jon Spencer was born on 5 February 1965
in Hanover, New Hampshire, to a university professor and a cardiology technician. He attended
Brown University in
Providence, Rhode Island
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where he was part of the noise rock band Shithaus, which included future
Cop Shoot Cop vocalist
Tod Ashley.
The band was short lived and had a musical style reminiscent of the
industrial music of
Einstürzende Neubauten. He moved to
Washington, D.C., and formed
Pussy Galore, who quickly relocated to
New York
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He is also known for bringing attention to and popularizing the blues artist
R. L. Burnside
R. L. Burnside (November 23, 1926 – September 1, 2005) was an American blues singer, songwriter and guitarist. He played music for much of his life but received little recognition before the early 1990s. In the latter half of that decade, Bur ...
, 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,