The MOJO Record Club Reviews: Cassandra Jenkins & Johnny Blue Skies
This week as the MOJO Record Club's Andrew Male and MOJO Associate Editor Jenny Bulley discuss new albums from Cassandra Jenkins and Sturgill Simpson's new alter ego Johnny Blue Skies. You wait forever for an expansive genre-expanding album of personal revelation and then two come along at once. Tracklisting:Petco, written by Cassandra Jenkins from ‘My Light My Destroyer', released by Dead OceansJupiter's Faeries, written by Sturgill Simpson, from Passage de Desir, recording under his new identity as Johnny Blue Skies, released by High Top Mountain
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The MOJO Record Club with Daragh Lynch
The Lankum polymath discusses the beefed-up drone of the Lankum sound, the awesome power of repetition, folk as time travel, and delves deep into his wild youth and his love of the Subhumans and folk-punk Laureate, Patrik Fitzgerald. Tracklisting:(cover of D.K. Gavan’s) Rocky Road To Dublin, from the 2023 EP, Live In Dublin, Written by D.K. Gavin, arranged by Lankum and released on Rough Trade RecordsSafety Pin Stuck In My Heart, written by Patrick Fitzgerald and originally released on Pete Stennett’s Small Wonder Records in 1978Live Out My Stars, written by Patrick Fitzgerald and originally released on Pete Stennett’s Small Wonder Records in 1978
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The MOJO Record Club with Peter Buck - bonus episode
Peter Buck rocks up to talk about R.E.M., Laura Nyro, pandemic life and his new collaboration with Luke Haines. Tracklisting:1. The British Army on LSD, from the album, All the Kids are Super Bummed Out, by Luke Haines and Peter Buck, released by Cherry Red Records2. Eli’s Coming, by Laura Nero, (eternally beguiling and cryptic 1968 LP), Eli And The Thirteenth Confession, released by Columbia
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The MOJO Record Club Review: Beth Gibbons and Michael Head
A new music special, as the MOJO Record Club’s Andrew Male and John Mulvey dig into a couple of key new releases from Beth Gibbons and Michael Head. A Scousadelic Krapp’s Last Tape, anyone? 1. Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band 'Shirl's Ghost, released on Modern Sky2. Beth Gibbons 'Lost Changes' released on Domino Records
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The MOJO Record Club with Richard Hawley - Part 2
Richard Hawley’s visit to The MOJO Record Club continues, as he goes deeper into The Fantastic Expedition Of Dillard & Clark, The Byrds, Gram Parsons, the wildness of bluegrass, the secret origins of country-rock, and his father’s connection to Hendrix!Tracklisting:Dillard and Clark, ‘Out on The Side’, written by Gene Clark , released on A&M Records
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