There are no biographical details for Muleskinner Jones so I'm going to have to make them up. 'Muleskinner Jones were formed in late 1953 in Mid-West America and raised on a diet of cowboy movies, trips to the American Adventure theme park and Mary Poppins. They moved on to Ireland sometime in the early 1980s, where they listened to the Pogues and took acid for 22 years.'

This would go some way towards explaining the finished product of their output. First song 'How Come That Blood On Your Coat Sleeve?' genuinely sounds like a cross between Kirsty McColl and Shane MacGowan's hit pop song and something from Nick Cave's Murder Ballads, as sung by Kirsty Gallagher off Sky TV and 'top' impressionario Alistair MacGowan. I honestly can't tell if this utterly bizarre countrified duet about murder and bloodstains is taking the piss or not. It's Nick Cave if he'd been brought up by Cletus and Dwayne, the only inbred gay couple in all of Arkansas. And I mean that as a compliment, really I do. Traditional songs recorded on an Apple Powerbook by an insane genius with straw between his teeth - Muleskinner Jones, we salute you, because we don't know what else to do.