Mojo Nixon 1957-2024

Photo by J. Cris Yarborough

First published on February 10, 2024.

The punch was as sudden as it was unexpected, landing with fierce and impressive accuracy. Its target was just to my left, close enough to where I felt the wind from Mojo Nixon’s fist.

It was a sweaty and packed night in the middle of the 1990s at the Cat’s Cradle in Carrboro, NC. Mojo was touring behind his then-new release, the Eric “Roscoe” Ambel-produced Whereabouts Unknown. Before the laying of hands, the guy near me had been he...