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










Me digs Jason Molina.