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Mexican Moon is the fifth full-length album from alternative rock band Concrete Blonde. The music on Mexican Moon takes the gothic rock of their previous albums and adds more of a hard rock edge to it. Johnette Napolitano provided the vocals, bass guitar, samples, and the album artwork, and she was accompanied by drummer Paul Thompson and guitarist James Mankey. “Jenny I Read” details the rise to stardom and subsequent fall into happy obscurity of a fashion model (rumoured to be Bettie Page), while “Mexican Moon” finds lead singer Johnette Napolitano singing about a failed romance and fleeing into México. The song “Jonestown” is a scathing critique of the theology surrounding the Jonestown Massacre and opens with a minute-long sample of Jim Jones ranting about warfare.... Read on...