{"title":"Magnolia Electric Co","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"magnolia-electric-co-trials-and-errors","title":"Magnolia Electric Co. - Trials and Errors","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRecorded only a few months after they had formed, Trials \u0026amp; Errors captures Jason Molina's new band Magnolia Electric Co. on one magical night in Brussels in 2003. It is a scintillating audio document of one of America's most important contemporary liv e acts evolving into something really special and doing what it does best — whipping an audience into a frenzy. This set captures Molina \u0026amp; Co right after Molina had retired the Songs: Ohia machine in favor of this powerful new vision of his. Two years in the planning process, the new project took its name from the last Songs: Ohia full-length album. Composed of a nucleus of four members, this particular show captures the newly christened band on its first tour in its earliest state. Still a four-piece with Pete Schreiner providing the back beat drum pulse, Mike Kapinus on bass and melancholic trumpet, and the two Jason's dueling over guitar solo space: Molina's down-tuned guitar matching his now settled tenor voice, and Groth's Creedence-channeling rhythm guitar and solos filling out the upper register. The songs are as classic as Molina's fans have come to expect over the course of seven Songs: Ohia full-lengths (between ‘96 and ‘03). With his new band, however, fans can finally enjoy a stable \u0026amp; more-than-able rhythm section that just gets tougher and tougher with each performance. On Trials \u0026amp; Errors, the new Magnolia grinds through three old Molina favorites, three songs which will be released on the upcoming Magnolia Electric Co studio album (out Spring 2005) as well as four songs that will only exist on record in their live form as presented here. Fans may recognize that Trials \u0026amp; Errors comes peppered with an homage or two to Neil Young. One could, in fact, argue that the album is an existential response to Tonight's the Night. While from the songwriting perspective Molina is often pegged as the perennial downer, this is not, like Young’s, a record born out of a series of sudden tragedies, but rather out of a whole life of growing up \u0026amp; out in the Midwest, surrounded by a small town mentality in a wide open space. Join Magnolia Electric Co as they play their part in a long-standing tradition of touring musical artists (Lynard Skynard, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Bob Seger) that capture the spirit of their own homes, traditions and principles and communicate those through the chooglin’ rock of ages on stage for rooms full of empassioned audiences 150+ nights a year. 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The essence of these recordings was extracted to create one cohesive being and thus defines what Magnolia Electric Co. Truly is - something that's hard to define. 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After seven full-length studio albums in as many years - each recorded using a revolving cast of players under the name Songs: Ohia - Molina has retired the name Songs: Ohia as well as his wayward days and settled in with a new and consistent cast of players. He has named this group Magnolia Electric Co., after his final Songs: Ohia album. Why now? Surely moving to Southern Indiana and finding a once-in-a-career band down in Bloomington in Pete Schreiner, Jason Groth, Mark Rice and Mike Kapinus has had something to do with it.Sonically, on What Comes After the Blues, there isn't a huge departure from where Songs: Ohia was headed these past few years. The steel howling hauntedly, the guitars soaring and crunching with verve, and the songs still resonating with timelessness. Steve Albini's live-in-a-room and captured-as-it-was-played engineering technique is still a crucial player as well. Where we find the marked difference with this new band and with these players in this new cloak are in their confidence as afforded by experience and trust in one another. These guys are talented, hard-working, and actually enjoy playing with one another - and you can hear it in the songs. As on the limited edition live album Trials \u0026amp; Errors (released Jan 18, 2005), Magnolia Electric Co. know exactly what they are shooting for and hit it in the center with every attempt. This is not indie rock anymore. Magnolia Electric Co. have made a no-bullshit album that is both rocking and full of life. It's a fist pumper and manages to hit great depths of beauty as well.In the tradition of Bob Seger, Tom Petty, John Fogerty, Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen and Ronnie VanZant, Molina is revered as being very personal songwriter who is unafraid to be vulnerable in song. And, like those artists, in Magnolia Electric Co., he has his Silver Bullet Band, Heartbreakers, CCR, Crazy Horse, E-Street Band and Skynard to balance the personal nature of the work with rock \u0026amp; roll of just such a collaborative and sublime nature that it defies being pigeon-holed as folk. Perhaps best categorized as working class rock, Magnolia Electric Co. is the band Molina has been searching for his whole life.Beginning as a nice folk song with acoustic guitar intro, the Jennie Benford-penned \"The Night Shift Lullaby\" is met by Rice's steady drum beat and Mike Brenner's steel guitar. This howling steel guitar is the phantom that gives an otherworldly feel to the first half of What Comes After the Blues. We find no Molina vocals in the mix, but an outstanding lead vocal performance from Benford with the rest of the Magnolias backing her up, a testament to the fact that Magnolia is not purely a Molina vehicle, but a team effort. A lonesome Molina guitar solo can be heard, however, calling out. He's come out of his shell as a guitar player a great deal, a product perhaps of his voice having matured over the years, mellowing into a somber tenor. It's also surely because - in Groth and Brenner - he's found his perfect guitar foils. Indeed, guitars carry a much greater share of the lyrical weight on What Comes After the Blues, with the three's guitars often engaging in a dialogue in their own tongue.Perhaps the album's stand-out track is \"Leave The City\", the ode Molina penned to his beloved former home of Chicago. 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With the 2007 death of long time Bassist Evan Farrel, Josephine is no doubt the strongest set of songs Molina has written since the inception of Magnolia Electric Co., those classic themes take on new meanings. Molina has approached the universal loneliness before, but never in such a focused, directed manner as found on Josephine. Molina, Magnolia Electric Co. and legendary recording engineer Steve Albini have put it all to heart and on record. The album is also an experiment in Molina's song craft, introducing some real lessons in brevity as he whittles a handful of tracks into well-under three minutes. 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It is a scintillating audio document of one of America's most important contemporary liv e acts evolving into something really special and doing what it does best — whipping an audience into a frenzy. This set captures Molina \u0026amp; Co right after Molina had retired the Songs: Ohia machine in favor of this powerful new vision of his. Two years in the planning process, the new project took its name from the last Songs: Ohia full-length album. Composed of a nucleus of four members, this particular show captures the newly christened band on its first tour in its earliest state. Still a four-piece with Pete Schreiner providing the back beat drum pulse, Mike Kapinus on bass and melancholic trumpet, and the two Jason's dueling over guitar solo space: Molina's down-tuned guitar matching his now settled tenor voice, and Groth's Creedence-channeling rhythm guitar and solos filling out the upper register. The songs are as classic as Molina's fans have come to expect over the course of seven Songs: Ohia full-lengths (between ‘96 and ‘03). With his new band, however, fans can finally enjoy a stable \u0026amp; more-than-able rhythm section that just gets tougher and tougher with each performance. On Trials \u0026amp; Errors, the new Magnolia grinds through three old Molina favorites, three songs which will be released on the upcoming Magnolia Electric Co studio album (out Spring 2005) as well as four songs that will only exist on record in their live form as presented here. Fans may recognize that Trials \u0026amp; Errors comes peppered with an homage or two to Neil Young. One could, in fact, argue that the album is an existential response to Tonight's the Night. While from the songwriting perspective Molina is often pegged as the perennial downer, this is not, like Young’s, a record born out of a series of sudden tragedies, but rather out of a whole life of growing up \u0026amp; out in the Midwest, surrounded by a small town mentality in a wide open space. Join Magnolia Electric Co as they play their part in a long-standing tradition of touring musical artists (Lynard Skynard, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Bob Seger) that capture the spirit of their own homes, traditions and principles and communicate those through the chooglin’ rock of ages on stage for rooms full of empassioned audiences 150+ nights a year. 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From these, sophomore album Fading Trails was born. But the four sessions, in full, chart the celestial map of Magnolia Electric Co.: its constellations and shooting stars, its Americana stompers and lean folk dirges. And, of course, the center of gravity that is Jason Molina's mournful, incomparable voice.The session known as \"Nashville Moon\" was recorded by Steve Albini at his Electrical Audio studios in Chicago, Illinois. The session known as \"Sun Session\" was recorded at the legendary Sun Studios in Memphis, Tennessee. The session known as \"Black Ram\" was recorded by David Lowery at his Sound Of Music studios in Richmond, Virginia and features an entirely different cast of characters including Lowery, Rick Alverson, Andrew Bird, Molly Blackbird, Miguel Urbiztondo and Alan Weatherhead. The session known as \"Shohola\" was recorded by Jason Molina alone, with a guitar and microphone.With LP covers drawn from original box illustrations and with the original box's poster included, this LP edition of The Sojourner Box Set delivers for the most ambitious and robust Magnolia Electric Co. release to date.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFormat \/ \u003cb\u003eLP\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eReleased \/ \u003cb\u003e04\/07\/2023\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCatalogue \/ \u003cstrong\u003eSC-150LP\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBarcode \/ \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e656605015019\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eArtist \/ \u003cstrong\u003eMagnolia Electric Co\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLabel \/ \u003cstrong\u003eSecretly Canadian\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGenre \/ \u003cb\u003ePop \/ Rock\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Secretly Canadian","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40569386434621,"sku":"POP-M-656605015019","price":99.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1487\/4550\/products\/SC150.jpg?v=1680571147"},{"product_id":"pre-order-magnolia-electric-co-hard-to-love-a-man-anniversary-reissue-release-date-02-27-2026","title":"Magnolia Electric Co. - Hard to Love a Man (Anniversary Reissue)","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCelebrating twenty years since its release, Magnolia Electric Co.’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eHard to Love a Man\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e will be expanded and available for the first time on vinyl in February 2026. This anniversary release of the band’s first EP includes three additional tracks: remastered demos of “31 Seasons in the Minor Leagues,” previously titled as “Tonight I’m So Down,” and “Lonesome Valley,” recorded at Echo Park Studios in Indiana during the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eHard to Love a Man\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e sessions, as well as “One Thin Dime,” recorded during the Black Ram sessions at Sound of Music Recording Studios in Richmond, Virginia.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e‘Working class rock’ is a phrase used frequently to describe The Magnolia Electric Co. Categorically, the band has secured their place amongst like-minded icons such as Bob Seger, CCR, Tom Petty and Bruce Springsteen, but it's not merely an aesthetic description. Magnolia backs it up with their work ethic. Amazingly, The Magnolia Electric Co. will have been on the road eight months by the end of 2005. This fact is most apparent to the band members themselves having been away from their homes and their loved ones for such extended periods of time. Hence the significance of the title track. When Jason Molina assumes the perspective of the one he left behind on \"Hard To Love A Man” and sings: “It was hard to love a man like you \/ Goodbye was half the words you knew \/ While you were waiting for me not to call \/ I sent my love,” the loneliness and guilt of separation is painfully obvious. The wounded feminine voice of Jennie Benford, coupled with Jason Groth's sweeping guitar and Mike Kapinus' mournful organ dramatically reiterate this sentiment. Mark Rice and Pete Schreiner deliver their signature tight and tasteful rhythm and Nicole Evans adds a new and dynamic voice.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhile \"Hard To Love A Man\" and live set favorite, \"Werewolves Of London\" were recorded with Steve Albini at his Electrical Audio Studios, the rest of the tracks were recorded during a brief five day visit home in Indiana at Echo Park Studios with Paul Mahern, whose engineering resume includes The Blake Babies, Lisa Germano and John Mellencamp. As we watch Magnolia grow, Jason Molina doesn't have to coach us through another one, letting the inmates run the asylum. 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