Mojo Nixon
| Mojo Nixon | |
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Mojo Nixon (left) at Continental Club in Austin, Texas. Photo – Ron Baker (2006).
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Neill Kirby McMillan Jr. |
| Born | August 2, 1957 |
| Origin | Danville, Virginia, United States |
| Genres | Cowpunk, psychobilly, rock, country |
| Years active | 1985–2004 |
| Labels |
Enigma (1985–1991) Needletime (1997) Shanachie (1999) |
| Associated acts |
Skid Roper Toadliquors Jello Biafra Pleasure Barons The Degenerates |
| Website | mojonixon |
Mojo Nixon (born Neill Kirby McMillan, Jr.; August 2, 1957) is an American musician, known for playing psychobilly music. He has officially retired from playing live and recording, though he does host several radio shows on Sirius Satellite Radio and has come out of retirement for one-time events, such as an event to support fellow musician Kinky Friedman's candidacy for Texas governor.
Nixon was born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He paired with Skid Roper in the early 1980s in San Diego. Roper mostly provided instrumental backup to Nixon's lyrics. Nixon and Roper released their first album in 1985 on Enigma Records, Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper. The song "Jesus at McDonald's" from that album was the duo's first noteworthy single.
Nixon and Roper's third album, 1987's Bo-Day-Shus!!! featured the song "Elvis is Everywhere," a deification of Elvis Presley, which is probably his best known song (Nixon later declared his personal religious trinity was Presley, Foghorn Leghorn and Otis Campbell).
Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper were also recorded in San Francisco during these early years by producer Sylvia Massy at CD Presents for the "Rat Music For Rat People" compilation album.
Nixon made his acting debut, as drummer James Van Eaton, in the 1989 Jerry Lee Lewis bio-pic, Great Balls of Fire! The film starred Dennis Quaid and Winona Ryder, with Ryder also concurrently appearing in Nixon's video for "Debbie Gibson Is Pregnant with My Two-Headed Love Child."
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