Sedcairn Archives – “Trouble Slug”

Indiana’s Sedcairn Archives (formerly known as DMA) has just dropped an instrumental single in “Trouble Slug”. Check out a lot more detail on this song below after you press play.

“Trouble Slug” is an emotional reaction to multiple traumatic circumstances that surround the life and death of Scrapper Blackwell, an Indianapolis resident and blues trailblazer. There’s the trauma of his unsolved murder in an Indianapolis alley where a State Police forensics lab now stands. There’s also the trauma of his still unrecognized legacy, possibly because Scrapper’s advanced blues style doesn’t fit neatly into the timeline of blues progression accepted by most blues historians.

“Trouble Slug” contains samples of guitar notes and vocal runs by Mr. Blackwell. It attempts to make a connection between the visionary aspects of his music and the advanced futurism of a more modern African-American musical form, Chicago Footwork. – David Moose Adamson

Credits:
Performed and Written by Sedcairn Archives
Album art design by Oliver Blank

This composition was commissioned as part of the Museum of Psychphonics.

Special thanks to the Indianapolis Museum of Art.