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Indie Folkies Jason Molina and Will Johnson Collaborate on New LP

11:20 p.m. · October 6, 2009 · by Tony Sclafani

Think of this as a new model version of the Stills-Young Band. Indie-folk singers Jason Molina and Will Johnson have combined their talents to create a new joint album together, Molina and Johnson. The album is due out Nov. 3, after which the pair will embark on a European tour.

Molina is the driving force behind the Magnolia Electric Co., while Johnson fronts Centro-matic and recently hooked up with the Monsters of Folk supergroup. Their album is slated to include 14 tunes and will come out on Secretly Canadian Records. It will include the song “Twenty Circles to the Ground,” which has already been leaked as an MP3 (click here).

According to Johnson, the record was borne of just over a week’s work: “For ten days we wrote, co-wrote, workshopped, complimented, scrutinized, drank, invited friends to come play music, smoked, made lots of notes and drawings, drank a little more and shot the BB gun off the back porch when we just needed some time and space. In the throes of all this, our record was made in the late February sun.”

European tour dates are as follows:

11.26 Deventer, NL: Burgerweeshuis

11/27 Ottersum, NL: Roepaen

11/28 Brussels, B: Botanique: 15 years Tout Partout

11/29 Utrecht, NL: Le Gues Who? Festival@Tivoli

11/30 Eindhoven, NL: MC Frits Philips

12/01 Winchester, UK: Railway Inn

12/02 London, UK: Garage

12/03 Manchester, UK: Deaf Institute

12/10 Barcelona, Spain: Primavera Club@Sala Be Cool

12/11 Barcelona, Spain: Primavera Club@Auditorio Montjuich

12/12 Madrid, Spain: Primavera Club@Teatro Alcazar

12/13 Lloseta-Mallorca, Spain: Teatro Lloseta

12/14 Puerto Real, Spain: Venue TBA