THE MOJO WIRE: Low Fidelity Favorites 1997-2001

The Mojo Wire

Low Fidelity Favorites 1997-2001

© 2003 The Mojo Wire (634479120343)

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Their best-of collection includes the late Isla Vista, CA indie-rock band's various sonic incarnations, from blues to surf to psychedelic to rootsy folk/country to garage rock, shot throughout with their bent, bizarro sensibility.

tracks

1 Your Mama's A Ho
2 12:15 Blues (Take 2)
3 Wishing Well Blues
4 Long Black Leather Boots
5 Whitecap
6 Trash And Trouble
7 Kid Icarus (Alternate Vocal)
8 Wound Down
9 Key West Tapwater
10 I Fly Free
11 Wipeout
12 The Shivering Sand
13 Water Into Wine
14 Heart On A Platter
15 One Last Hallelujah
16 Happy Birthday
17 How Far Away (2001 Version)
18 Run From Me (2001 Version)
19 You're On Your Own (Live)
20 Margarita (Live)

notes

The Mojo Wire bashed its way through the Isla Vista/UCSB college-town scene from 1997-2001 before a variety of amicable reasons split up the members of this garage-rock combo, capping off a stretch of four self-recorded, self-released albums, twenty-three slapdash, scattershot gigs, and a whole lot of loud, messy, irreverent fun. The band began when guitarists Adam Hill and Bryn DuBois formed a blues band called The Clap in Dana Point, CA during May 1996, and recruited Keir DuBois (bass) and Kevin Nerison (drums) as rhythm section. Soon renamed in honor of Hunter Thompson's annoying fax device, the band moved to Santa Barbara, CA and switched drummers, adding Brandon Klopp for about a year before shifting the lineup again to add Joe Zulli on guitar, relegating Bryn to drums. The group's sound morphed along with its membership, from blues to surf to psychedelic to rootsy folk/country to garage rock, but always present was a bent, bizarro sensibility infecting anything they did. The Mojo Wire entered an extended hiatus in 2002 when the brothers DuBois went on to form Honey White.

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