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Trivial Pursuits => Arts & Entertainment => Topic started by: miles on January 20, 2005, 10:41:04 pm
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I'm listening to the new live album by Magnolia Electric Co, recorded a couple years ago I guess. I'm really enjoying it, and I think some of you all will too. It reminds me a bit of Will Oldham backed by a full rock band, and some Neil Young stuff. It is, in fact, what rock music should be, if it isn't the Jesus Lizard.
Jason Molina, of Songs: Ohia, is the brain of the band. They will be touring pretty extensively it appears in Spring. Luckily, he's hitting Salt Lake. It will be a night of serious rocking and beer consumption, I predict. Unless it's a all-ages show.
I saw Songs: Ohia once, and enjoyed it more or less, but don't have any of their records. It was less rock than this. Any Molina fans here?
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I'm a huge Jason Molina fan. I've been listening to Songs: Ohia for a couple of years, and I was insanely happy when my first article for the school paper was a review of a Magnolia Electric Co. show.
They played at my fave venue, and I went and grabbed a place at the front while my friend went out front and, as he later learned, smoked a joint with the band's (awesome) steel guitar guy. The show was incredible, and as they were packing up their gear, I went up to Jason Molina and said "Hi, I'm really sorry to do this, but your show was great and uh all I did in high school was drive around all night listening to Songs: Ohia so uh thank you for that," and he was a very pleasant, very congenial little man. A surprisingly little man. Verging on tiny. So that was weird, but he's really a charming guy.
I like the tour album a lot, too. The first song, "Dark Don't Hide It" was the first song they played when I saw them and I dug it immediately, although I find it eerily Neil Young-ish.
But yes, the point is, Jason Molina, rad.
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The recording quality of the record is pretty damn good. I can't wait to see him in April.