Collaborations With Other Musicians
Langford initiated a project, the Pine Valley Cosmonauts, which performs the music of other country music groups. Several alternative country musicians have guested on these recordings.
Langford has guested on numerous recordings, including with Dutch punk band the Ex, The Old 97s, Chip Taylor, as well as Austin, Texas legend Alejandro Escovedo, and has recorded joint albums with Sally Timms, Kevin Coyne, Richard Buckner, Kat Ex and Rosie Flores. He also contributed and worked with Doorika, a defunct performance arts collective based in Chicago and New York City.
In the late 2000s Langford came into contact with the Burlington Welsh Male Chorus based near Toronto, featuring the dulcet tones of Barry "Satchmo" Hyslop, invited them first to accompany him at a CeltFest in Chicago in 2007, then to re-record the whole of the Skull Orchard. The album Skull Orchard Revisited (credited to Jon Langford and the Burlington Welsh Male Chorus) was released on June 3, 2011 by Bloodshot Records.
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