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 was already neck deep into my obsession with avant-garde music when I discovered the Shadow Ring, but their albums have endured for me like few others. No one sounded like them before or since, and to this day, they remain one of my favorite bands. My favorites are Put The Music In Its Coffin, which I heard first and only bought because I liked the cover, and Hold Onto ID. Graham Lambkin is still quite active on the avant-music scene, unlike Darren Harris and Tim Goss, who seem to have disappeared without a trace.
