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Jam Room
Studio album by Clutch
Released	October 1, 1999 (1999-10-01) August 2004 (reissue)
Recorded	May 1999
Studio	Uncle Punchy Studios (Silver Spring, Maryland)
Genre	Hard rock, stoner rock, blues rock, funk metal
Length	35:13 (original) 47:14 (reissue)
Label	River Road Megaforce (reissue)
Producer	Clutch and Larry Packer
Clutch chronology
The Elephant Riders (1998) Jam Room (1999) Pure Rock Fury (2001)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal	8/10
Kerrang!

Jam Room is the fourth full-length album by the American rock band Clutch, released in 1999 on the band's own label River Road Records.

Album information

The initial limited release contained 12 tracks in 1999 and was a European release only to begin with, and had to be an import for their home country United States, but in 2004 it was reissued by Megaforce Records with three additional tracks, "The Drifter", "I Send Pictures", and "Sink 'Em Low" added to the album's song list.

The version of "Sink 'Em Low" found on the reissue is the demo version of the same track found on Pure Rock Fury, which is faster and heavier. The track "One Eye Dollar" was re-recorded in 2007 on the album From Beale Street to Oblivion.

It was another example of the band releasing demo versions to songs that would later become something slightly different, as they did with Impetus, Pitchfork & Lost Needles and Slow Hole to China, the former being a reissue itself, the middle album a compilation of early material as well as unreleased, and the latter having its own reissue some years later with extra tracks, just like this album did.

It captures the various styles of the band, with a very diverse mix of punk / heavy roots, through their more stoner rocker styles, it adds some blues rock to the mix finally with unaccredited organ on some tracks (a style the band would embrace in the future much more prolifically) and continues with some of their funk metal efforts as well.

Track listing

All songs written by Clutch.

Personnel

• Neil Fallon - vocals
• Tim Sult - guitar
• Dan Maines - bass
• Jean-Paul Gaster - drums
• Delfeayo Marsalis - horns on "Release the Dub"
• Heartbeat - percussion on "I Send Pictures"
• Spoken word on "Release the Kraken" from the 'Brewers Dictionary of Phrases and Fables'

Production

• Produced by Clutch and Sir Lawrence Packer
• Recorded at Uncle Punchy Studios, Silver Spring, Maryland
• Engineering by Larry "Uncle Punchy" Packer
• Mastered at Masterdisk by Howie Weinberg
• Photography by Steve Truglio

References

1. AllMusic review
2. Popoff, Martin; Perri, David (2011). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 4: The '00s. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. pp. 83–84. ISBN 9781-926592-20-6.
3. Mörat (March 11, 2000). "Albums". Kerrang!. No. 792. EMAP. p. 45.
4. "Pro Rock". www.pro-rock.com. Retrieved February 20, 2016.
5. bravewords.com. "Megaforce To Issue CLUTCH's Jam Room In August". bravewords.com. Retrieved February 20, 2016.
6. "the AU interview: Jean Paul Gaster of Clutch (Maryland) | the AU review". the AU review. Retrieved February 20, 2016.
7. "Clutch - Jam Room review | Lambgoat". lambgoat.com. Retrieved February 20, 2016.

• Clutch (band) albums
• 1999 albums