A Tinkerer’s Playground: Erin Osmon and MECo reflect on 20 years of 'What Comes After The Blues'
'What Comes After the Blues' was produced amid big personnel changes and lots of little tweaks. That’s how Jason Molina liked it.
Written by Erin Osmon (photographs via Jennie Benford)
Hi everyone,
Hope you’re all keeping well.
With Magnolia Electric Co.’s dearly-loved 2005 album What Comes After The Blues somehow turning 20 years old over the weekend, we’ve been working on something special to commemorate the occasion and to take a little look back at the original album recording sessions with Steve Albini at Chicago’s Electrial Audio studios.
Author, journalist, and occasional S&D contributor Erin Osmon has kindly spent some time for us researching, digging through the memory vaults and interviewing various members of Magnolia Electric Co, resulting in this excellently put together piece on the album for you to read in your own time.
With additional thanks to Jennie Benford for the photographs from the sessions at Electrical Audio, which we hope add a little more detail to these memories that Erin has so beautifully documented here.
We hope you enjoy it.
S&D x