Mojo Nixon was born in New Orleans.

Not Mojo the Man. The former Neill Kirby McMillan, Jr. was born in Chapel Hill, N.C. in 1957.

The Mojo who came into being in New Orleans in 1982, the product of imbibing several-too-many Skylab Fallouts at a Bourbon Street bar, was Mojo the Myth—the ranting and raving apotheosis of Howlin' Wolf, Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Jimmy Lee Swaggart, Hunter S. Thompson, Richard Pryor, Jonathan Richman and Otis from The Andy Griffit...