![]() ![]() Mistakes would be made and overdubs were not an option, so the idea was to keep playing and to capture the performance raw. Surrounded by posters of blues musicians from Chicago that Molina had brought with him, they were all asked to play in the same room together and to invent their parts as they went along. The only two people at Soundgun who had recorded with Jason before were producer Edan Cohen, who, in 2001,manned the boards for Jason’s cover of Boz Scaggs’s “Sweet Release” and Jennie Benford, who that same year sang backup on the Cohen-produced 7” version of “Lioness.” Everyone else came to the game a rookie. So it’s no surprise that, for Didn’t It Rain, he traveled to Soundgun Studio in Philadelphia to play with eight musicians he barely knew. But Molina never stuck with one group for very long, on the road or in the studio, and he wouldn’t until after 2004’s Magnolia Electric Co. I often wonder what a whole album of music this great would sound like, and if it could surpass "Silk Degres.Songs: Ohia - Didn’t It Rain (Deluxe Edition) (Secretly Canadian)ĭidn’t It Rain is the sixth and final Songs: Ohia studio album, the enigmatic zenith of a seven-year run that saw Jason Molina record with no fewer than seven different bands. "Cool Running" is the polar opposite: an exhilirating blast of total attitude married to a note-perfect Marcus Miller bass line and arangement. The melody is simple and wistful, the arrangement subdued. ![]() Two songs here save this from being a 1-star release: "Heart Of Mine" and "Cool Running." "Heart Of Mine" is the perfect accompanient for anyone walking along the waterfront while doing a post-mortem on a recently failed relationship. While several outstanding musical talents perform yeoman duties here - with Marcus Miller and Bobby Caldwell topping the list - most of the songs are forgettable, and the arangements often ovewhelm Boz's vocals. The wondrous voice remains intact, the rest is missing in action. "In 1976, "Silk Degrees" ruled the airwaves with good reason: Tight arrangements, smooth melodies, and one of the best jazz vocalists ever to grace the bay area! Flash to 1988, and this attempted "Comeback" album. ![]()
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