Given MAGNET’s detailed coverage of the end of the Mendoza Line—a beloved, ragtag countrypolitan bar band that went up in flames in 2007—it only seems fitting that we have plenty of access to the formation of the Jescos, the new group featuring the Mendoza Line’s Timothy Bracy and Wooden Wand’s James Jackson Toth, as well as Bracy’s wife, singer Elizabeth Nelson. Bracy has found his rambling pub-rock foil in Toth on the forthcoming Remembrance Of Things Trashed, a debut album that guts it out for rock ‘n’ roll glory. Read our Q&A with Toth and Bracy.
James Jackson Toth: I find NASCAR very boring (at least since they adopted that ludicrous new point system several years ago), but I do love a good drag race. TV show Pinks—whose tag is “Lose The Race, Lose Your Ride”—pits everyday Joes against each other in a series of quarter-mile races, with the loser signing over the title to his or her car. Addictive and great fun.
