{"title":"Jon Langford","description":"\u003cp\u003eDelve into the world of Jon Langford, Welsh musician and artist. Best known as a founder member of punk band The Mekons, explore his unique blend of music and art. A thrilling discovery awaits.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"skull-orchard-revisited-book-jon-langford-9781891241307","title":"Skull Orchard Revisited","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eBOOK + CD PACKAGE. Jon Langford is best known for the music he creates with the Mekons and the Waco Brothers, but he has gained increasing acclaim for his visual art, too, over the past decade.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNashville Radio\u003c\/i\u003e, his first book+CD of paintings, writing, and music (Verse Chorus Press, 2005) was a sprawling, jam-packed collection full of punk energy. For this book, Langford has created a highly personal portrait of Wales, where he was born and raised. It incorporates a CD featuring the author's rare solo album \u003ci\u003eSkull Orchard\u003c\/i\u003e; originally released in 1998 on a label that promptly went bankrupt, and revamped and extended with live material (and a Welsh male voice choir) for this edition. The song lyrics, at once autobiographical and fanciful, are illustrated in a series of \"word paintings\" scattered throughout the book, which also includes an A to Z of Welsh culture and history (personal and general), thematically related etchings and paintings, family photographs, and Langford's first published fiction, a dystopian fable about a whale and a dolphin.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49561839010065,"sku":"GOR011724052","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":49794619146513,"sku":"CIN1891241303A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50034393612561,"sku":"CIN1891241303VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51057161830673,"sku":"NIN9781891241307","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1891241303.jpg?v=1750866874"},{"product_id":"great-pop-things-book-jon-langford-9780140171563","title":"Great Pop Things","description":"For some years Jon Langford, guitarist and vocalist with the Mekons, has been contributing a cartoon strip to \"New Musical Express\" and \"The Los Angeles Times\". Each week he bitingly portrays the foibles and pricks the pretensions of our favourite rock heroes. The strip has achieved a fair degree of cult status. This is the first collection of the strips to appear in book form: subjects range from Morrisey to Guns 'n' Roses, from REM to Nigel Kennedy.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49608204255505,"sku":"GOR003980974","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49657097814289,"sku":"GOR008420571","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52770998485265,"sku":"GOR002004770","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0140171568.jpg?v=1751290519"},{"product_id":"nashville-radio-book-jon-langford-9781891241192","title":"Nashville Radio","description":"Beyond his work as a musician, Jon Langford has attracted attention as a visual artist in recent years. Nashville Radio is the first collection of his art. It reproduces 215 paintings, as well as song lyrics and autobiographical writings. The book includes a CD of Langford performing 18 of the printed songs. Langford s song-paintings fuse portraiture with imagery derived from folk art, Dutch still life, classic Western wear, and the cold, cold warall instilled withhis trademark sardonic wit. He applies this distinctive style to the depiction of American musical icons like Bob Wills, Hank Williams, and Johnny Cash, but also to more ghostly, marginal figuresblindfolded cowboys, astronauts, and dancerswho are jerked around by success and exploitation, fame and neglect. Underlying his work is a deep love of musical lore, twinned with fierce opposition to the death-dealing tendencies in the culture of his adopted homeland, from the killing off of authentic popular music by mass-marketed drivel to the embrace of capital punishment as a response to social ills. Langford s work offers an alternative perspective, recalling a time when great visionaries and pioneers thrived at the heart of the mainstreamand the lid wasn t on so tight.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49757548380433,"sku":"CIN1891241192G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":49789082698001,"sku":"CIN1891241192A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50500314431761,"sku":"GOR010200930","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52755978715409,"sku":"NIN9781891241192","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1891241192.jpg?v=1751347112"},{"product_id":"four-lost-souls-cd-0744302025520","title":"Four Lost Souls","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50147382133009,"sku":"DVDB074BN6TTBVG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/B074BN6TTB.jpg?v=1751099533"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-jon-langford.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}