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[miles]

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?

[andalucia]

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.

[miles]

The recording quality of the record is pretty damn good.  I can't wait to see him in April.