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: Epiphone DOTs, Danelectros and Silvertones are inexpensive, lightweight guitars that are reliable, sound good and look cool. Who wants to tour with a guitar you need to take an insurance policy out on? Not me. These guitars do the job with a minimal financial and emotional investment. If you get them set up just right by someone who knows what they’re doing, these “axes” play very much like their more expensive counterparts.
