04 02 2021
THIS MONTH’S MOJO COVER STORY IS THE 30 GREATEST SONGS of Robert Smith’s dark pop phenomenon, painstakingly ranked and lauded at length, plus a deep delve into their formative years with his original bandmates. Inside the magazine, Bowie is re-mourned; Carole King’s Tapestry reassessed; Edgar Broughton Band resurrected; while Barry Gibb remembers everything. Plus: Bessie Smith; Black Country, New Road; Cowboy Junkies; The Weather Station; Serge Gainsbourg; Lucinda Williams; Fugees; The Band; Don Bryant; Daniel Lanois; Hurray For The Riff Raff; Dylan’s song sell-off… and all back to Edie Brickell’s!
Unfortunately, UK newsstand copies of MOJO 328 will NOT feature the usual covermount CD. This is due to unprecedented issues with the transport of the CDs from continental Europe to the UK.
Today in History
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Today in History
Today is Wednesday, Jan. 27, the 27th day of 2021. There are 338 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
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In 1901, opera composer Giuseppe Verdi died in Milan, Italy, at age 87.
In 1944, during World War II, the Soviet Union announced the complete end of the deadly German siege of Leningrad, which had lasted for more than two years.
In 1945, during World War II, Soviet troops liberated the Nazi concentration camps Auschwitz and Birkenau in Poland.
In 1967, astronauts Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom, Edward H. White and Roger B. Chaffee died in a flash fire during a test aboard their Apollo spacecraft.
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Today is Wednesday, Jan. 27, the 27th day of 2021. There are 338 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On Jan. 27, 1756, composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria.
On this date:
In 1901, opera composer Giuseppe Verdi died in Milan, Italy, at age 87.
In 1944, during World War II, the Soviet Union announced the complete end of the deadly German siege of Leningrad, which had lasted for more than two years.
In 1945, during World War II, Soviet troops liberated the Nazi concentration camps Auschwitz and Birkenau in Poland.
In 1967, astronauts Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom, Edward H. White and Roger B. Chaffee died in a flash fire during a test aboard their Apollo spacecraft.
Cowboy Junkies
Crescent Moon
Cold Tea Blues
Hunted
Floorboard Blues
The Cowboy Junkies Michael Timmins is a most literary songwriter. On the Toronto quartet s Pale Sun Crescent Moon, Timmins imbeds lines from William Faulkner s Absalom, Absalom into the song First Recollection and a lin.
more »e from Gabriel Garcia Marquez s The General in His Labyrinth in the song Seven Years without it seeming the least bit awkward. He has found the perfect literary voice for his writing in his sister Margo Timmins, whose alto is all smoke and suggestion. Songs are not poems, however, and never was that distinction more obvious than it is here. The album s so-called songs float in atmospheric harmonies, unshaped by melody or meter. This droning music may seem haunting on first encounter, but by the third song the melodic monotony encourages dozing. Geoffrey Himes