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Oct 08, 2009 Molina and Johnson By Kyle Lemmon

Molina and Johnson is the new collaboration between Jason Molina and Will Johnson, the American folk mavens behind Magnolia Electric Co. and Centro-Matic respectively. (What an original name!) The roots-rock fan’s wet dream collaboration have a self-titled debut album coming out November 3rd, via Secretly Canadian. They’re offering up the opening cut this week, entitled “Twenty Cycles to the Ground.” The song sees the two songwriters singing in unison over a lazy day organ and bluesy guitar line. Johnson apparently met Molina at the merch table following a MEC show in Austin, TX last September, where they chewed the fat over hats and pumpkins. Five months later, to the day, they recorded at Argyle, Texas’ Echolab studio.

“We were basically ready,” says Johnson in a press release. “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.”

The dusty long-player also boasts guest artists such as MEC’s Michael Kapinus and Texas singer-songwriter Sarah Jaffe, who vocally waltzes to a windswept singing saw on “All Gone, All Gone.” Other contributors include Scott Danbom, Howard Draper and Bryan VanDivier.

The tracklisting and European tour dates are below. In other news, Johnson is drumming for Monsters of Folk on their fall tour. Secretly Canadian is slyly nicknaming Molina and Johnson “The Phantoms of Folk.”

Molina and Johnson:

01 Twenty Cycles to the Ground
02 All Falls Together
03 All Gone, All Gone
04 Almost Let You In
05 In the Avalon/Little Killer
06 Don’t Take My Night From Me
07 Each Star Marks a Day
08 Lenore’s Lullaby
09 The Lily and the Brakeman
10 Now, Divide
11 What You Reckon, What You Breathe
12 For as Long as It Will Matter
13 34 Blues
14 Wooden Heart

Tour dates:

11-26 Deventer, Netherlands - Burgerweeshuis
11-27 Ottersum, Netherlands - Roepaen
11-28 Brussels, Belgium - Botanique (Toutpartout 15 Years Fest)
11-29 Utrecht, Netherlands - Tivoli (Le Guess Who? Festival)
11-30 Eindhoven, Netherlands - MC Frits Philips
12-01 Winchester, England - Railway Inn
12-02 London, England - Relentless Garage
12-03 Manchester, England - Deaf Institute
12-10 Barcelona, Spain - Sala Be Cool (Primavera Club)
12-11 Barcelona, Spain - Auditorio Montjuich (Primavera Club)
12-12 Madrid, Spain - Teatro Alcazar (Primavera Club)
12-13 Lloseta-Mallorca, Spain - Teatro Lloseta
12-14 Puerto Real, Spain - TBA

(www.secretlycanadian.com/artist.php?name=molinaandjohnson)