Jason Molina: His Life and Music, Plus Opinions on Mickey Guyton & Leon Bridges

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Society & Culture, Music, Arts

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🗓️ 8 October 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Whether he was recording as Songs: Ohia or Magnolia Electric Company, Jason Molina was a poetic and enigmatic musician, releasing 16 studio albums before his untimely death in 2013. Hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot talk with Erin Osmon about her biography of Molina, "Riding With The Ghost." The hosts also hear what song got Leon Bridges Hooked on Sonics and review the new album from country artist Mickey Guyton.

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Featured Songs:

Songs: Ohia, "I've Been Riding With The Ghost," The Magnolia Electric Co., Secretly Canadian, 2003

Mickey Guyton, "Black Like Me," Remember Her Name, Capitol Nashville, 2021

Mickey Guyton, "All American," Remember Her Name, Capitol Nashville, 2021

Mickey Guyton, "Rosé," Remember Her Name, Capitol Nashville, 2021

Mickey Guyton, "Dancing In The Living Room," Remember Her Name, Capitol Nashville, 2021

Songs: Ohia, "Farewell Transmission," The Magnolia Electric Co., Secretly Canadian, 2003

Songs: Ohia, "Cabwaylingo," Songs:Ohia, Secretly Canadian, 1997

Songs: Ohia, "Steve Albini's Blues," Didn't It Rain, Secretly Canadian, 2002

Songs: Ohia, "Soul," (Single), Palace, 1995

Songs: Ohia, "White Sulfur," Songs:Ohia, Secretly Canadian, 1997

Songs: Ohia, "Farewell Transmission," The Magnolia Electric Co., Secretly Canadian, 2003

Songs: Ohia, "The Black Crow," The Lioness, Secretly Canadian, 1999

Amanda Shires, "Just Be Simple," Just Be Simple (Unreleased), N/A, 2019

Songs: Ohia, "Just Be Simple," The Magnolia Electric Co., Secretly Canadian, 2003

Leon Bridges, "Motorbike," Gold-Diggers Sound, Columbia, 2021

Miguel, "Sure Thing," All I Want Is You, Jive, 2010

Miguel, "All I Want Is You (feat. J.Cole)," All I Want Is You, Jive, 2010

Janet Jackson, "Control," Control, A&M, 1986

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0:00.0	Hey Sound Opinions Listeners, if you support us on Patreon, you get to listen to our podcast,
0:05.9	Ad Free on Patreon. He took the bomb. You are listening to sound opinions and this week we're talking with author Aaron
0:34.9	Osmond about Jason Molina and the music he made as Songs Ohio and Magnolia
0:40.3	Electric Company. I'm Greg Cot and I'm Jim Deregadas. We'll also hear from Leon Bridges
0:46.2	about the song that got him hooked on Sonics. But first, some new music. It's a hard life on Easy Street.
0:57.0	Just white painted picket fence as far as you can see.
1:02.4	If you think we live. That is a little bit of the song Black Like Me by Mickey Gighton. It was a big single, Greg in 2020 in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests.
1:27.0	Gighton had put out several EPs that was on one of them and now we have her first full album for Capital Records, Nashville. Remember Her name.
1:37.0	Candice Michael Gighton, born 1983 in Arlington, Texas, spent a lot of her early years moving around the country with her
1:46.8	dad who was an engineer, but music was a constant, you know, she was singing in the church
1:52.0	choir at age five.
1:54.0	She was always loving sounds from across the genre spectrum.
1:58.0	Dolly Parton and Leanne Rimes, you can hear both of those influences on her country tunes but also Whitney
2:05.2	Houston and the Wyanins. Really flexible vocal style which she began honing when she moved to California and then eventually relocated in Nashville.
2:18.6	There's a lot of anticipation for this album based on the buzz that was building from her EPs what is she
2:25.5	giving us on this record remember her name we're gonna play a track we will come
2:30.8	back and give our opinions this This is the song All-American by Mickey Gighton on
2:36.8	sound opinions. High School Hardache, driving with the windows down.
2:44.4	Where the dance floors, church, pews, suit and tas, tattoos, one big small town.
2:51.8	Ain't we are.
2:55.0	Ain't we are American.
2:59.0	Ain't we are.
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