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Nominated for two 2004 W.C. Handy Awards!
- Best Acoustic Blues Album
- Best New Artist Debut


Mark Lemhouse's debut release delivers string-strangling,
gut-rocking blues ecstasy. Lemhouse reaches into a wicked toolbox - containing resonator chainsaw, electric tube-amp machete, and bottleneck auger - to uproot blues tradition with a vandal's glee.

Recorded to analog tape with vintage mics at Easley/McCain Studios in Memphis, Big Lonesome Radio has a gritty feel that's more akin to a Howlin' Wolf or Jimmy Reed than a young man playing the blues in the 21st century has a right to sound.

Melding together influences from Delta blues, Piedmont rag-style forms, and North Mississippi trance blues, Lemhouse's notes come across like crackling radio transmissions from a time gone by.


"There's not a single iota of pseudo-blues here. Lemhouse is the real deal, and Big Lonesome Radio should give blues lovers hope for the future of the genre."
--Blues Revue

Top 10 "Best Blues" Albums of the Year...
--MOJO Magazine

"Striking debut... Lemhouse convincingly breaks free of the revivalist pack."
--The Commercial Appeal

"One of the year's best local blues releases... a consistently reverent but playful journey through the blues tradition."
--The Memphis Flyer

"The kind of record that can reassure your faith that the blues is a still vital and thriving music... a stunning set of traditional blues played with utter authenticity, grit and passion."
--Jeff Harris, Bad Dog Blues

"Roots blues should always sound this good..."
--Roots Music Report

"Irrepressible, energetic barrelhouse music... Lemhouse's playing is raucous, rhythmic, very rough, and always right."
--Minor 7th

"Very funky National guitar and electric playing. Authentic deep tone and chops. I'm very impressed."
--Bob Margolin

"Mark Lemhouse came to Memphis and Lord knows what he had in mind, but before he left, music got a-holt of him."
--Robert Gordon, author, "Can't Be Satisfied"

Check out the artist's website:
http://www.yellowdogrecords.com/marklemhouse

Track List:
1. You Can't Get that Stuff No More
2. What's the Matter With Papa's Little Angel Child
3. Baby Sister Blues
4. Jealous Moon
5. Tappin' that Thing
6. Electra 225
7. Edwin's Lament
8. No One Can Forgive Me But My Baby
9. Mercy Mia
10. Pony Blues
11. One Hand Loose
12. Driftin'

Suggested CDs:

• Bluff City Backsliders
• Franklin, Harpe & Usilton
• Gamble Brothers Band
• Rick Moore & Mr Lucky

Other Genres:

• BLUES: Acoustic Blues
• ROCK: Americana
• TYPE: ACOUSTIC