Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper is the debut album from rock

Rock music

Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...

/psychobilly

Psychobilly

Psychobilly is a fusion genre of rock music that mixes elements of punk rock, rockabilly, and other genres. It is one of several subgenres of rockabilly which also include thrashabilly, trashabilly, punkabilly, surfabilly and gothabilly...

 musical artists Mojo Nixon

Mojo Nixon

Mojo Nixon is an American musician, known for playing psychobilly music...

 and Skid Roper

Skid Roper

Skid Roper is an American musician active in the 1980s and early 1990s. He has recorded with several groups including surf band, The Evasions, but is best known for his work with Mojo Nixon between 1985 and 1989.With Nixon, Roper served mainly as an instrumentalist...

, released in 1985.

Track listing

1. "Jesus At McDonalds"
2. "Mushroom Maniac"
3. "Moanin' With Your Mama"
4. "Promised Land Tonight"
5. "Guns To My Head"
6. "I'm In Love With Your Girlfriend"
7. "Rockin' Religion"
8. "Big Payback"
9. "Comin' Down"
10. "Mama Possums"
11. "King of the Couch"
12. "Art Fag Shuffle"
13. "Black Yo' Eye"
14. "Ain't Got Nobody" [cassette only]
15. "Death Row Blues" [cassette only]

Credits

Skid Roper: Upright washboard and other stuff
Mojo Nixon: Vocals, Guitar and Foot

Recorded at The Bungalow, Coronado, Calif.
Except Rockin' Religion, Black Yo' Eye, recorded at Soundtrax, S.D. Calif.

Produced by Mudbone

Mudbone

Mudbone is a recurring character in Richard Pryor's stand-up shows. Debuting on the 1975 album ...Is It Something I Said?, Mudbone is easily Pryor's most famous creation and made his stand-up shows much more than comedy. A wino philosopher born in Tupelo, Mississippi, his character became an...

Mixed at Hit Single Below a Shopping Center
Photography by Jeff de Rose
Design by Skidmore Grafix

Critical reception

Blogger RYP writes of this album, "It reveals this dynamic duo at their vibrant best, putting across an instrumental conceit that weds a kind of old-timey instrumentation with a whisky-soaked, poetry-slam mentality."