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: A sublime pleasure. It is best to urinate in the woods, without threat of interruption, and to let it all hang out, so to speak. But once when I was 12, I snuck out of my house late at night and pissed in the middle of Amboy Road in Staten Island where I grew up, a bustling and heavily congested stretch of road by day, but still and serene as a prairie graveyard at night. A cherished memory. Andy Dick (pictured) was arrested after urinating outside.
