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		Fat Possum has garnered the attention of the music industry's major players, including their financial supporters at Epitaph Records.
		Beyond simply recording authentic bluesmen, Fat Possum Records has gained a mixed reputation among blues fans who despise the label's attempt to fuse traditional blues with modern punk.
		The highlight of the film is a recording session that joined the established punk rockers of the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion with some of Fat Possum's traditional artists.
	www.okienoodling.com /LLP/filmsHSH.html (1488 words)

	SEE Magazine: May 13, 2004
		Fat Possum Records did manage to survive the rage of blues purists who thought the rock and hip hop collaborations Fat Possum was doing with their best known artist, R.L. Burnside, were blasphemous.
		And FPR lived through a financial crisis that saw it at a million dollars in debt in the mid-90s, garnering $14,000 in bounced-cheque fines in a single year.
		Fat Possum continues to blur the boundaries and open eyes and ears.
	www.seemagazine.com /Issues/2004/0513/mus1.htm (446 words)

	Tucson Weekly: Playing Possum (February 26 - March 4, 1998)
		Fat Possum asks us to fill out that mailing-list postcard, the one addressed in the Addams Family font and offering a blank box where you're requested to trace your house key.
		But not all Fat Possum Artists are old blues guys: The punkish group Twenty Miles is comprised of brothers Donovan and Judah Bauer, only a third as old as their labelmates, if the shadowy picture of them leaning against the filthy urinals is an accurate indication.
		Fat Possum has yanked out of dirty Mississippi ground artists that meet and often surpass the impact of solid blues figures like Buddy Guy and Albert Collins, while also becoming the first label to make the blues sound as irascible as the punk thrashing that appears on the label distributing it.
	www.tucsonweekly.com /tw/02-26-98/mus.htm (712 words)

	Encyclopedia: The Replacements (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		They released the four albums on Twin/Tone Records (based in their hometown of Minneapolis), the last two of which, Hootenanny and Let It Be, are widely considered classics by fans of what alternative rock was in the 1980s.
		Twin/Tone Records was a record label based out of Minneapolis, Minnesota that operated from 1977 until 1994 and helped several local groups receive national attention.
		Westerberg is currently signed to Vagrant Records, and under his alias, Grandpaboy, to Fat Possum Records, and has released both a DVD and a CD under the title Come Feel Me Tremble.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/The-Replacements (2060 words)

	R. L. Burnside - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Another album of acoustic material was recorded that year and little else was released before "Hill Country Blues," in the early 1980s.
		The Oxford, Mississippi, label Fat Possum Records was founded by Living Blues magazine editor Peter Lee and Matthew Johnson, and was dedicated to recording aging North Mississippi bluesmen such as Burnside and his friend Junior Kimbrough.
		Burnside remained with Fat Possum from that time until his death, and since usually performed with his friend and understudy, the white slide guitar player Kenny Brown, whom he began playing with in 1971 and claimed as his "adopted son."
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/R.L._Burnside (1078 words)

	Music: The Hunch Is Back (The Boston Phoenix . 06-08-98)
		The rough-and-tumble roster of Mississippi's Fat Possum Records has plenty of new acts radiating the fresh-from-the-woods energy of rock's blues roots.
		Fat Possum, whose better known "discoveries" have included blues vets R.L. Burnside and the late Junior Kimbrough, has taken a handful of its other real-thing winners and put them on the road together as part of "The Eye Scratchers and Ball Kickers Tour," which stops at the House of Blues next Thursday and Friday.
		He's recorded dozens since, including the immortal "The Hunch" and "She Said," the latter covered by the Cramps.
	weeklywire.com /ww/06-08-98/boston_music_3.html (910 words)

	Epitaph Records - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Most of the bands on Epitaph are punk rock and punk groups, but several sub-labels exist, such as ANTI-, Fat Possum Records, Fat Wreck Chords, Burning Heart Records and Hellcat Records that have signed other types of bands.
		The Offspring would soon leave for Columbia Records in a contract dispute, but their Smash lived up to its namesake and would quickly become Epitaph's all time best selling album, with more than 11 million units sold worldwide to date.
		Although Bad Religion was the founding "band" of Epitaph released their first records through Epitaph, they switched over to Atlantic in 1994, with Stranger Than Fiction being their first record outside the label.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Epitaph_Records (574 words)

	The Observer \| OMM \| Fat Possum label keeping Blues alive
		The offices of Fat Possum Records are located with wild incongruity between a police station and a Baptist church in the small, god-fearing town of Water Valley, Mississippi, where the lawns are deep and green and possession of beer is a criminal offence.
		Junior Kimbrough, perhaps Fat Possum's greatest discovery, a man who reconfigured the blues into a kind of lo-fi, backwoods trance music, was the first artist to die.
		Before Fat Possum found him, he had spent his life in Deep South logging camps and on the chain gang for killing a man with a 25-cent pocketknife in a bar-room altercation.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /omm/story/0,13887,1083277,00.html (3725 words)

	Southwest Blues Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Fat Possum Records based in Oxford, Mississippi has made it their mission to record some of the regional talent in the Mississippi hill country.
		Payton, a farmer by trade was recorded by Fat Possum after much coaxing from the label shortly before his death in 1997.
		As has happened with other Fat Possum releases, remixing was done to this song by adding electronic flourishes and effects giving it an almost hip-hop feel.
	www.southwestblues.com /10.01cdpayton.htm (360 words)

	Thirsty Ear Magazine On-Line: Features: Fat Possum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Both men on stage that night record for Fat Possum, which sprung up in the early '90s and has since released the most important blues recordings of the decade.
		Fat Possum is drawn like a magnet to rough-cut characters like Wine, to bluesmen so earthy their tattered trunks seem to sprout like trees right out of the Mississippi mud.
		The most original and important bluesman of the last decade, all four of Kimbrough's Fat Possum discs are solid classics that give new meaning to the words "deep blues." Kimbrough didn't much bother with more than one chord per song, some of which lasted more than 20 minutes when played live.
	www.thirstyearfestival.com /features/fat.html (2015 words)

	American Blues-Music Maker Relief Foundation: Editorial Article
		While Fat Possum targets the twenty-somethings at late-night club gigs, Music Maker courts the well-heeled social elite at private parties in the Hamptons.
		It seems incongruous that Fat Possum and Music Maker-two organizations with innovative approaches toward just the sort of diversification the industry is looking for-feel the need to operate outside of the establishment, particularly when they are committed to the most traditional of blues artists.
		Fat Possum, which has aligned itself with a California punk label, Epitaph Records, and branched out into punk rock itself, may find it hard to maintain its deep blues momentum; Music Maker may discover it a challenge to balance the foundation's philanthropy with recent film and recording deals.
	www.ibiblio.org /musicmakers/mm5200.html (491 words)

	Gut-bucket blues / Mountain Xpress / Asheville, NC
		But the blues they deliver is not your grandpa's kind of music – unless he happens to have killed a man in his youth, names corn liquor as his tried-and-true muse, and plays gut-bucket electric guitar with a sweaty grind that begs you to drop what you're doing and make crazed love to whoever's handy.
		Part of the problem, notes Johnson, is that many of the artists on Fat Possum's skinny roster can neither read nor write and don't hold valid drivers' licenses – making the always-daunting logistics of touring and industry networking all the more difficult.
		Fat Possum has been within hours of going under, according to one source, six or seven times.
	www.mountainx.com /ae/1999/1013caravan.php (2106 words)

	The Smoky Mountain News
		R.L.’s “housing project,” Fat Possum Records, is responsible for curating voices once riddled with cobwebs.
		Record Company owner Matthew Johnson has summoned voices crackled with age, disparity, and a twisted sense of humor.
		Fat Possum’s top dog tools around the dust roads and quagmires of Mississippi in search of musicians who can spout a tragic tale.
	www.smokymountainnews.com /issues/11_00/11_15_00/arts_fat_possum.shtml (1378 words)

	Deep blues - Music - www.theage.com.au
		Matt Johnson, founder of the Fat Possum label, for which Kimbrough recorded his four albums, speaks of the bluesman as of a lovable, flawed uncle.
		He first recorded in the mid-'80s but didn't make his proper debut until Fat Possum released All Night Long in 1992 when he was 62 years old.
		Fat Possum continues to unearth the occasional gem.
	www.theage.com.au /news/Music/Deep-blues/2005/01/13/1105423569370.html (1949 words)

	Fat Possum Mic Closet Filled With Sennheiser, Neumann
		Just over a dozen years old, Fat Possum Records was started by Matthew Johnson to record local blues artists in the North Mississippi area, including Junior Kimbrough and R.L. Burnside, in addition to creating music for The Sopranos and Nissan commercials—all done with Sennheiser and Neumann mics.
		Bruce Watson (pictured), who has engineered and co-produced all of Fat Possum's releases from the beginning, said "In those early days, we didn't know anything about recording so we recorded with any gear we could borrow, rent or find laying around: cheap boards and a bunch of cheap mics, whatever.
		As Fat Possum’s clientele increased, Johnson and Watson moved their recording process to a real studio.
	mixonline.com /news/audio_fat_possum_mic/index.html (524 words)

	The Elvis Costello Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		With the release of Don't Give Up On Me, his Fat Possum debut, the widely acknowledged King of Rock and Soul is liable to ascend to a height equal to his glorious 1960s reign at Atlantic Records.
		Don't Give Up On Me was recorded live in the studio over a four day period, with an ensemble anchored by Burke's church organist Brother Rudy Copeland and producer Joe Henry, and features contributions from guests Daniel Lanois and revered gospel outfit The Blind Boys of Alabama.
		Burke's vocals, power undiminished, tempered by decades of performing and recording experience, is nothing less than a force of nature.
	www.elviscostello.info /articles/d-g/fatpossum.020415a.html (1198 words)

	cyclops zine - Crap (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Dunbar only released one record before his death in 1994 and Fat Possum re-released the rare album last year.
		Payton was a farmer who was never recorded formally, but some demos for fat Possum were turned into a great 1999 record.
		King Ernest record one record for Fat Possum but died before it could be release last year.
	www.knology.net /~cyclops-mark/crap.html (646 words)

	Mississippi bluesman R.L. Burnside dies, 78 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Matthew Johnson, whose Oxford, Miss., label Fat Possum Records issued seven albums by Burnside, said the musician died of heart failure.
		Mitchell's solo field recordings of Burnside were released by Arhoolie Records in 1968, and reissued in their entirety last year by Fat Possum.
		Fat Possum albums produced by the late New York Times music critic Robert Palmer ignited further interest in his sound.
	www.hollywoodreporter.com /thr/music/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001053754 (431 words)

	cyclops zine - Robert Pete Williams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The self titled record by Robert Pete Williams has just been re-released by Fat Possum Records.
		The record was recorded on his farm in Maringouin, LA during Christmas 1970.
		This is raw and unpolished blues, which is why it fits perfect on Fat Possum thirty years after it was released.
	www.knology.net /~cyclops-mark/pete.html (276 words)

	MetroActive Music \| Fat Possum Records
		Offbeat and real, Fat Possum recordings by the likes of R. Burnside, CeDell Davis, Junior Kimbrough, and the Jelly Roll Kings have managed to cut through the South Side-sounding, pimp-hat-wearing bullshit that's crowded blues record bins for years and stake a claim for dusty rhythms and muddy melodies descended from blue-fl field hands.
		Such records have effectively wedded the Fat Possum name to the blues genre, in the same way Sun was known for rockabilly, Atlantic for early R&B, Stax for soul, and Blue Note for jazz.
		Fat Possum spent last year tied up in litigation with Capricorn, its former distributor, and put out only one new disc (A Ass Pocket of Whiskey, Burnside's collaboration with the Blues Explosion).
	www.metroactive.com /papers/sonoma/05.08.97/music2-9719.html (1486 words)

	R.L. Burnside - Wikipedy
		Syn baas hat der, neffens oerlevering, foar soarge dat syn straf sa koart wie omdat er him nedich wie as trekkersjauffeur.
		Ferskate singles folgen, útbrocht troch David Evens op Highwater Records.
		Dêrnei kaam hy ûnder kontrakt by Fat Possum Records, oprjochte troch Living Blues-redakteur Peter Lee en Matthew Johnson om de âldere Mississippi bluesmannen lykas Burnside en syn freon Junior Kimbrough fêst te lizzen.
	fy.wikipedia.org /wiki/R.L._Burnside (343 words)

	The New Yorker: PRINTABLES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Over the past decade, Fat Possum has successfully marketed a raw Mississippi sound, sometimes with rock-and-roll-tempered modernizations, to a younger generation.
		It was recorded live, with an electric band, in Oxford, Mississippi, and has a heavy dose of songs popularized by Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and John Lee Hooker.
		It opens with a one-minute interview with Burnside and then roams through a variety of recordings, many live, that were made from 1986 to 1993.
	www.newyorker.com /printables/online/020204on_onlineonly01 (668 words)

	R.L. Burnside, MP3 Music Download at eMusic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		His debut recording, Bad Luck City, was released that same year on Fat Possum Records.
		These recordings showcase the raw, barebones electric guitar stylings of Burnside, and on both recordings he's accompanied by a small band, which includes his son Dwayne on bass and son-in-law Calvin Jackson on drums, as well as guitarist Kenny Brown.
		Both recordings also adequately capture the feeling of what it must be like to be in Junior Kimbrough's juke joint, where both men have been playing this kind if raw, unadulterated blues for over 30 years.
	www.emusic.com /artist/10559/10559888.html (547 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Music \| Delta bluesman R L Burnside dies
		After signing to Fat Possum records in 1991, he recorded a dozen albums and toured worldwide.
		He first recorded in the late 1960s, and his sparse, one-chord blues style was documented by the folklorist George Mitchell.
		After playing in bars for decades, it was only when he became the first act signed to Fat Possum records in 1991 that Burnside achieved a wider fame.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/music/4207034.stm (412 words)

	riverfronttimes.com \| News \| True Blues
		The Fat Possum Juke Joint Caravan is bringing songs of anger, misery and lust to Blueberry Hill -- and you'd be a fool to miss it
		But his spirit of hard, nasty, give-a-fuck blues is alive and well on the Fat Possum label, home to Kimbrough's recordings, as well as those of R.L. Burnside, whose albums I'm more ambivalent about because of the involvement of the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
		The last thing a guy like Burnside needs, by my way of thinking, is being turned into an avant-garde flavor-of-the-moment by and for alt-rock's hipoisie, which is what Spencer and his cohorts have done for/to Burnside by radically remixing some of his songs.
	www.riverfronttimes.com /issues/2000-08-23/music2.html (558 words)

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	diddy wah: In Heaven Sitting Down
		Like many others, my introduction to R.L. was in 1996 via 'A Ass Pocket Of Whiskey', the album he recorded one afternoon in his homestate of Mississippi with the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
		I was so stunned that none of the local "blues" radio shows were playing this record that I started one myself.
		This version is from a album entitled 'First Recordings' part of an amazing series of George Mitchell recordings put out by Fat Possum Records.
	diddywah.blogspot.com /2005/09/in-heaven-sitting-down.html (385 words)

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