REISSUE. 1996's Nothing for Juice stands apart in the vast Mountain Goats discography as being the first album by the band recorded mostly in an actual studio, featuring the mid-'90s touring lineup of singer/songsmith John Darnielle on guitar and bassist Rachel Ware on harmonies. And that's not all: there are interesting covers of Robert Johnson's ?Hellhound on My Trail? and a tune that Chet Baker once covered (?Moon and Sand?), current setlist mainstay ?It Froze Me,? a redux version of an earlier Mountain Goats favorite in ?Alpha Double Negative: Going to Catalina,? and a real sonic treat in the transcontinental, through the- mail collaboration with Germany-via-New Zealand guitarist/stringed instrument mastermind Graeme Jefferies (This Kind of Punishment, the Cakekitchen) on three of the album's standout tracks.