Jason Molina
Jason Molina
Jason Andrew Molinawas an American musician and singer-songwriter, originally from Lorain, Ohio. He came to prominence performing and recording as Songs: Ohia, both in solo projects and with a rotating cast of musicians. Since 2003, he recorded either under his own name or with a stable lineup of band members as the Magnolia Electric Co...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth30 December 1973
CountryUnited States of America
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I like people that can strap on a guitar and don't sweat the fact that you have to come up with a song in an hour. I want to work with someone who won't feel like they have to play along with Jason Molina. I want them to just have the confidence.
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There's so much more subtlety to this new recording. There's a subtlety in the playing. There's also a subtlety in the way I approached the singing. The band was able to really capture the feeling of the songs and not really trade anything that we had sort of arranged for the live presentation, but the songs just aren't as loud.
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I really enjoy recording right after a tour. We're tired, but the songs are really lived in by then.
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These people who have everything at their disposal as far as cash and connections, I think they just get so mired in the business side of things that they don't just sit at home and record records. Anybody can do that.
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I'm noticing again and again and again, they're saying this is a good living room record. It's not a good radio record.
I try to be of the world, rather than just observing it.
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As a city, Chicago really affords me an environment that I am really happy creating in. It's an easy place to live in a lot of ways; it's a great community to be making music in.
At times, I will get in the studio and force myself to just write an entire front-to-back record, and 'Let Me Go' is one of these.
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We don't try to make a specifically commercially approachable kind of record. We're just trying to make the music we normally play and these are the audio choices that we have made for how to present the record.
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I try to do collaborations with as many artists as possible. It's really excellent and fun to actually work with another songwriter.
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In songwriting, I needed language. And I always believed in singing about what I do.
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I really started hearing a sound for the band for the first time instead of just hearing a sound for the record. So I started trying to put together a specific band that could record with me and also tour with me. And I felt that it was enough of a change in approach to warrant to a change of the name.
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My heart is sick / and I didn’t make it out.
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Being in love means you are completely broken, then put back together. The one piece that was yours is beating in your lover's breast. She says the same thing about hers.