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PRACTISE MAKES POWER

Five years in the making – a chunk of which was spent wherein the album was deemed “lost” – Mojo is a mightily significant album for Melbourne bluesman Ash Grunwald. Since he started working on it in 2013, Grunwald himself has gone through a lifetime’s worth of changes: he put a whole separate album out, hit a personal rock bottom, got sober, moved to LA, founded a brand of eco-friendly reusables (Earth Bottles), started a podcast (Soulful Conversations), wrote a book (Surf By Day, Jam By Night), and completely rehauled his approach to the guitar – with which he has undeniably reached virtuoso status thanks to

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