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Classic Album Review: Magnolia Electric Co. | Trials & Errors

This came out in 2005 — or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):

 


Ohio singer-guitarist Jason Molina spent most of the last decade earning comparisons to Neil Young with the solemn troubadourism of his Songs: Ohia project.

On this live set with his new outfit Magnolia Electric Co. — named after his final S:O album — Molina cranks it up a notch, delivering a slate of lumbering, epic-length roots-rockers that are sure to inspire comparison to a vastly different entity: Young and Crazy Horse. Long may he run.