| Whereabouts Unknown | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Mojo Nixon |
| Cover: | Whereabouts Unknown.jpg |
| Released: | 1995 |
| Genre: | Rock |
| Label: | Blutarski/Ripe & Ready |
| Producer: | Eric Ambel |
| Prev Title: | Otis |
| Prev Year: | 1990 |
| Next Title: | Gadzooks!!! The Homemade Bootleg |
| Next Year: | 1997 |
Whereabouts Unknown is an album by the American musician Mojo Nixon, released in 1995.[1] [2] Nixon supported the album by touring with his band, the Toadliquors.[3]
Whereabouts Unknown was produced by Eric Ambel. Will Rigby played drums on the album.[4] "Tie My Pecker to My Leg" was cowritten with Country Dick Montana.[5] "Girlfriend in a Coma" is a cover of the Smiths' song, with additional lyrics. "My T.V. Is Watchin' Me" was inspired by Bob Stinson.[6]
"Bring Me the Head of David Geffen", a song that appeared on advance copies of the album, was pulled right before the official release.[7] [8] The song later appeared on 1997's Gadzooks!!! The Homemade Bootleg.[9]
Trouser Press wrote that "the playing is crisp and perfunctory country-rock; instrumental accuracy is thoroughly wasted on (if not toxic to) a vocalist this instinctual... Fortunately, Mojo is in credibly foul form, and has enough solidly entertaining originals to make his own party happen."[10] The Philadelphia Inquirer called the album "a roots-rock celebration of moral lassitude and the product of a sick mind."[11] The Washington Times considered it "a blues-country mix that sounds like Muddy Waters and Ernest Tubb together on a bad hair day."[12]
The Boston Globe deemed Nixon "a human gutterball, a strummin', cussin', frat-party for punks."[13] The San Diego Union-Tribune noted that "Nixon has assembled a ruckus of a band that can swing and swagger along to his fabulously gruff, shag carpet of a voice."[14] The Richmond Times-Dispatch labeled Nixon "the record industry's most beloved degenerate," writing that the album is "as politically incorrect as ever."[15] The Fort Worth Star-Telegram praised the "crack garage/roots band chugging behind [Nixon]."
AllMusic wrote: "Nixon's humor remained as sophomoric as it was politically incorrect. As usual, he was pretty funny the first time around, though."[16]