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"Mojave Album Review"

By Alan O'Hare liverpool.com
The Mojave Collective, Rust & Dust (Album), myspace.com/themojaves
Mark Delaney's Mojave Collective have been knocking around Liverpool for few years now and this is the group's official debut record. They sound great, the songs are good and there is some fantastic musicianship going on here. Where do they fit in? Who knows, on a wider scale, it's certainly not Radio 1, but Johnnie Walker or Bob Harris may take a chance onRadio 2. High energy rockers that shoot for The Band at full flow, mixed in with country-esque ballads from the Mersey-ssippi delta, that mix piano, delicate guitars and pedal steel, make up the bulk of Rust & Dust. The Americana theme grates a little over a
full album - but there are plenty of good tunes thrown in, to get the band noticed outside of town.
- Liverpool.com


"Mojave Review"

Mark Pountney, lead vocals, has his name alongside every track, on Mojave’s debut album. With strong back up, from Thomas Clarke, Chris Simpson, Jaymie Ireland, Peter Johnson, James Murphy, Nicole Collarbone and Ben O’Brien, the guys rock, stomp and smoulder, through 13 songs, on pedal steel, piano, trumpet, banjo, guitars and harmonica.

OK, to begin, if you catch a gig with these guys, or listen to a few tracks, on www.myspace.com/themojaves don’t expect to hear a watered down version of Jackson, Buffet or Strait, ‘cos you won’t. But, what you will get, is honest to goodness, different to anything else out there music, that you’ll either love, or not. There’s no middle ground with Mojave, on rockster, opener, What You’ve Learned, hitting the listener with both barrels. Keeping up the momentum, Simple Story, is a rock tinged, Country/pop offering. A gentle, Monday Morning, takes a retro ‘70’s feel, smouldering to an early Earle style on, Down The Road. Uninspiring, head banger, Blame It On Lorraine, stomps to gorgeous, Good Thing, a sheer triumph of melody, for Brit Country, 21st Century style. Seventh Son, twangs it up, with snatches of harmonica, before the tempo eases down, on romantic, Everything Will Be Fine. Passing through, Birds Around, en route to atmospheric, ballad, Goodbye. Unlisted titles offer us 3 Bonus tracks, with the closer, holding it’s own alongside the previous songs.
Describing their band and music as Country Punk, they cite a mammoth list of musical influences, that includes a good shot of Country icons. And, the more you listen to Rust & Dust, the stronger the Country feel becomes evident. The legacy of Gram Parsons, is a large slice of their content, with a twist, and I’ll leave it up to the listener to decide whether that twist is too tight? Personally, I like much of their inclusions, others are too outside the perimeters for a Country gal, but undoubtedly, they offer a new approach to the often tired format, and we should keep a firm eye, on the direction their music winds to, because it can, and will hook in a new generation of Country fans.
- Country Routes


"Mojave Review"

No one is topping Mark Wilson surely. Not quite as cut and dried as you may think. The Mojave Collective sent the pools panel into overdrive. The lead singer has been reviewed on these pages before and been compared to Steve Earle, but en masse the Mojave Collective are about as fun as you can conceivably have without a country hat. They enjoyed themselves almost as much as we did. They take American country but create something so authentic they might well have found it down the back of their couch.

“Plazzy Yank!” was heckled, but the idiot was simply missing the point. It isn’t an attempt to BE American (for that see The Thrills, for these see Teenage Fanclub) but it was taking American roots music and creating something ineffably genuine. Something that belongs. They surely have the finest collection of songs any unsigned band in the country can lay claim to and their being snapped up can only be a matter of time.
- Smokey Mountain Sessions


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Rust and Dust (Debut LP)

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Sweet Baby Jesus, it's The Mojave Collective!

Packing 21 grams of Parsons and a dusting of the Flying Burrito Brothers, Pountney, Clarke, Simpson, Murphy, Ireland, & Johnson come strolling into town like the Fabulous Furry Funk Brothers to preach the holy gospel of country, rock and acoustic beauty.

The Mojave Collective, four young men from the Deep South (of Liverpool), play American roots music with a British Pop sensibility.They are currently in the studio recording their debut LP, "Rust&Dust" released on the (Mayfield Label) and available from sonicaonline.co.uk.

From beautiful acoustic country-tinged ballads with lush 3 and 4-part harmonies to barnstorming, freewheeling rock ‘n’ roll, the Mojave Collective absorb, roll, smoke and then stomp on the doobie of all that is great in the Anglo-American tradition, playing like the Small Faces had spent time hanging out with The Band and The Stones in California in 1968 (which they may well have done – this band have never been overly fussed by little things like details when there’s rock and good lovin’ to be had).

With a line-up featuring guitars, pedal steel, piano, trumpet, samplers, banjo, harmonica, each member of the band is often heard comparing himself to a virtuoso player with whom he has no similarity whatsoever.

Thoroughly prepared to bribe, sleep and drink their way to the top of the shag pile, this is one band who know that there’s a real difference between irony and ironing, but they’re just too damn busy making good music to care what it is.

The Mojave Collective are currently busy doing what they are always busy doing; writing, playing, rehearsing, recording and thoroughly enjoying themselves in the manner of the fine upstanding gents their grandmothers of invention know them to be.