Burnside crouches between and in front of them, a leather belt looped in his hand. It's no accident that the first song on each of the last three Blues Explosion albums opens with a false start. The band seems bent on questioning the boundaries of the song, interrupting riffs, incorporating unexpected stops and abrupt endings. When the unity of the song is called into question, other elements can enter. One of those elements is chance.
Accidents play a big role in the making of Blues Explosion records.
Their approach is not the same as hip-hop sampling, although it certainly comes out of it. That's why the Blues Explosion aren't merely reducible to irony. What might be at work is the logical culmination of the punk attempt to deflate the overblown stature of the self-indulgent, egocentric Rock Star. Sonic Youth said kill yr. Morrison, Hendrix, Presley, and Lennon have all been buried for years, but none shows any sign of dying in the near future.