MOJO magazine - Neil Young subscriber cover (February 2022 - Issue 339)

MOJO magazine - Neil Young subscriber cover (February 2022 - Issue 339)
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TOM JONES - Treforest's giant-voiced methuselah talks Dylan, rock'n'roll and staying sane
1 page

MIKE COOPER - Via more than 50 years of never playing the same thing twice, the folk rocker/steel guitar improviser explains what's needed to become a real Cult Hero
1 page

BILLY STRINGS - Meet Billy Strings, the bluegrass revolutionary who sings "about meth, not mining"
1 page

PAUL COOK - Surviving the car crash of the Sex Pistols, then a car crash with The Professionals, punk's percussion pathfinder remains sanguine, albeit wise to his (ahem) public image. "People don't let you grow up from being a Pistol," says Paul Cook
6 pages

DEEP PURPLE - Fifty years since their revered Mark II line-up cut Machine Head, the baroque rock monolith that remains Deep Purple relive their greatest hits, mishaps and a well-aimed plate of spaghetti. But can they reach the end of this feature without one of them getting sacked? "We always liked surprises," they assure Mark Blake
8 pages

THE GUN CLUB - Forty years ago in Los Angeles, punk crashed head-on into American roots and the punk-blues was born. Its frantic midwife was Jeffrey Lee Pierce, a voodoo-driven, literary-minded musical savant whose group destroyed to create. With memories of heroin, The Cramps and the Blondie fan club, band members and friends recall how the alchemical deal went down. "Whatever his condition was," they say, "Jeff never lost a beat"
4 pages

CAT POWER - Behind her fringe, under her covers, trading as Cat Power, she's the indie icon who flew under the radar. Now she's singing the songs of Billie Holiday and Nick Cave, are we - ironically - seeing the real Chan Marshall at last? "I always thought it would be beautiful to play in complete darkness," she tells Victoria Segal
6 pages

1971 NUGGETS - It was the year that hatched some of the longest-reigning and least-disputed greatest albums of all time. But 1971 was so great, even its lesser-known gems are priceless. Mojo's crate-diggers present 50 of their favourites
6 pages

CURTIS HARDING - From a puritanical upbringing in the Mennonite faith, through educations in hip-hop and garage rock with CeeLo, Black Lips and Danger Mouse, future-soul seer Curtis Harding has learned the hardest lesson: how to be himself, definitions be damned. "I'm open to everything," he assures David Fricke
4 pages

NEIL YOUNG's been busy. Making a new life with Daryl Hannah, a new album with Crazy Horse, and building an actual barn to record it in. Meanwhile, the pandemic has enabled a slew of projects - a sci-fi novel, Archives II, III and IV, the legendary Toast LP - and bought time to mourn Elliot Roberts, fight for the planet and ponder CSNY. "There's been a lot of new beginnings," he tells Sylvie Simmons
13 pages

DON BREWER AND GRAND FUNK RAILROAD - They were the bare-chested, loud-amp'd power trio big on exaggeration - but they hit it too hard. Don Brewer recalls his time in Grand Funk Railroad
1 page