Jon Spencer Gets a Catalog Reissue

It's always a retrospective that pulls a band out of what they think is semi-permanent hiatus into what fans like to call active touring duty. Case in point; The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.

It's been five years since the band released their "Damage" album under the abbreviated moniker Blues Explosion. Since then Spencer has kept busy collaborating with Matt Verta-Ray in their rockabilly, blues band Heavy Trash. Enter the Shout! Factory label which will reissue a Jon Spencer Blues Explosion best of compilation in the springtime in addition to expanded reissues of studio albums.

As Spencer tells Billboard, "There isn't going to be tons and tons of unreleased stuff. We're trying to keep them to single discs. There will be B-sides from singles in Europe, stuff like that. Hopefully it will be an easy way for someone to tie things up and put them all in one place."

Though the band has no immediate intention to reunite they did play a one off show in NYC during the summer and Spencer will not discount the possibility of more shows after the catalog is released. Perhaps even record a new album.

"We're all up for it," he admits. "We've thought about it, talked about it, just haven't done it."

Having just released his third album "Midnight Soul Serenade" with Heavy Trash, Spencer, his wife Cristina Martinez and Dutch electronic artist Solex are working together on an album for release sometimes next year.