First Listen: 'Farewell Transmission: The Music Of Jason Molina' — npr.org

hide captionFarewell Transmission: The Music of Jason Molina comes out April 22. Farewell Transmission: The Music of Jason Molina comes out April 22. Jason Molina never sang to — or for — the many. The singer-songwriter, who died last year at 39, gave voice to despair and solitude, and to a lonely pursuit of the comfort and strength necessary to face each day. Whether he performed as Songs: Ohia, Magnolia Electric Co or Jason Molina, his big, yearning voice encountered only a small but intense cult following that heard in him a crucial combination of fatalism and fighting spirit.

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