Oui B. Jammin' interviews Jesse Sprinkle
September Issue © Oui B. Jammin Ministries

A Poor Old Lu Interview

ALL MY FAVORITE BANDS ARE BREAKING UP. What's up with that?! As sooner does Poor Old Lu release what may be their finest album, A Picture of the Eighth Wonder, than they toss themselves upon the mass grave of great Christian bands, along with Prayer Chain, L.S.U., Focused, Unashamed, Sometime Sunday, the Blame, PFR, and others.
Poor Old Lu's last gig together will be at the TOM-fest. We here in Kentucky were blessed to see Poor Old Lu perform twice this past spring--once at Ichthus '96, then two weeks later in Louisville at the Clifton Center (a Campus Life show) with Blackeyed Sceva. The Ichtus set was a highlight of a fest that had already seen incredible performaces by Hoi Polloi, the Choir, Sixpense None the Richer and MxPx ( not mention Bart Campolo's tent-packing seminars). The Louisville show saw POL pulling out all the stops, even performing a much-requested electric version of 'Cannon-Fire Orange' ("what is it about that song....?!").

I had a chance to speak with Jesse Spinkle, POL's drummer extrodinaire, early in the spring of this year. This was an inter view that was supposed to have run in the April/May issue of Oui B. Jammin (er, the issue that never appeared. Sorry....). During the coaurse of our conversation, Sprinkle (pictured below) was completetly courteous, and he sounded upbeat and excited not only about the new album, but about the tour that they were on at the time (POL, along with Blackeyed Sceva, were on the first leg of the "Buy the Land, Build the House, Feed the Kids Tour" sponcered by 5-Minute Walk Records, which was organized to create funds for an outreach facility in Tijuana, Mexico). Sprinkle also mentionaed a side project he's been woking on, and had much to say about Christian radio and music in general...

OBJ: Are you having a good time working on the new [Poor Old Lu] album?

JS: It took me awhile because I was kinda not into it at first, because I was working a lot and I didn't really want to record, but after everything started shaping together, it sounded amazing. I was really happy with how it came out.

OBJ: Who's producung?

JS: We produced it ourselves. We were planning on having Gene Eugene do it but