Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper-Bo-Day-Shus!!! (1987)
Artist: Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper
Title: Bo-Day-Shus!!!
Year of Release: 1987
Country and Year of Edition: US 1987
Sell Price: $11.71
Sell Date: 1/3/26
Condition: VG+/VG+
Discogs Last Sold: 1/2/26 NM/NM $9.75
Low: $3.53
Median: $7.96
Average: $7.73
High: $13.00
Current low price: $5.86 Sweden, $9.00 US
Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 7
Have/Want: 163/40
Where Sold: Murrells Inlet, SC
Time It Took To Sell: 2 years
Where and When Bought: Facebook cd lot
Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B+
Sad To See It Go: No
Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper were favorite of mine in 1986-7 for their stripped down guitar and washboard approach. I bought this right when it came out, even though I never got around to getting Frenzy. I liked that one better, but I heard it plenty doing shows at WICN overnight. When I got this CD it hadn't even been serviced yet and I had no idea he was all over MTV after Frenzy's seemingly dig at the MTV DJ "Stuffin' Martha's Muffin." I guess wtih the end of the last charred embers of MTV, it makes sense Mojo would sell.
With this album the half dozen songs I remembered were radio hits and the ones I ignored, I ignored. There was no knowledge of Bo-Day-Shus!!! from playing it at home start to finish on a regular basis. The tracks I loved were the ones I'd play at 3 in the morning. Things like "I Ain't Gonna Piss In No Jar," "Gin Guzzling Frenzy" or the Skid sung "Lincoln Logs" were my favorites. That ACTUAL MTV video, "Elvis Is Everywhere" I somehow never knew had a video, but I liked it all the same. For me, it was a short lived love, since I completely ignored Root Hog or Die and everything else they did after for that matter. Sometimes you don't need to hear someones entire output for all eternity even if you like 'em. Two albums were enough for me. Let the MTV masses and the boat vacationers have 'em. I kept them forever in 1987 in my mind and I don't think I even listened to them since until today.
Mojo died a couple years back as the Outlaw Country Cruise docked in San Juan. He had a fatal "cardiac event" at 66 a night after he played. I only saw him play once, when this album was brand new. It was the only time I ever ventured to the Iron Horse in Northampton, MA for a show. They still stand, so maybe I'll see something else there someday. Mojo was Chapel Hill born but the duo formed in San Diego. Sometimes Mojo sounds like Peter Wolf.
Those guys sound like they could be from anywhere.
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