
Red Red Meat were a Chicago-based blues-inflected alternative rock band active from the early 1990s. Jimmywine Majestic (Sub Pop, 1994), the album from which 'Stained & Lit' is drawn, was recorded at Idful Studios and produced by Brad Wood, who also worked with Liz Phair and Sunny Day Real Estate. The band were signed to Sub Pop after director Jonathan Poneman saw them at Idful, making them the first Chicago act on…
A canonical document of mid-90s Sub Pop blues-alternative, bridging the Chicago underground's roots-rock sensibility with the emerging post-grunge aesthetic. 'Stained & Lit' exemplifies the album's fusion of fuzzbox riffs, twangy steel guitar, and impressionistic lyricism — a sound that influenced…
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