Sojourner is Magnolia Electric Co.'s 2007 box-set release, comprising: three full-length albums, one four-song EP, one documentary movie on DVD called The Road Becomes What You Leave; a celestial map and a medallion; all within a wooden box. The band's 2006 album, Fading Trails, was compiled from the four recording sessions included in their entirety on Sojourner.

Sojourner
Box set by
Released2007
Recorded2005-2007
GenreAlt-country
Length119:15
LabelSecretly Canadian
ProducerSteve Albini
David Lowery
Jason Molina
Magnolia Electric Co. chronology
Fading Trails
(2005)
Sojourner
(2007)
Josephine
(2009)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic82/100 link
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic link
Pitchfork Media7.7/10 [1]

Track listings edit

Nashville Moon edit

(Produced by Steve Albini[1])

  1. "Lonesome Valley"
  2. "Montgomery"
  3. "Don't Fade on Me"
  4. "Hammer Down"
  5. "No Moon on the Water"
  6. "Nashville Moon"
  7. "What Comes After the Blues"
  8. "Don't This Look Like the Dark"
  9. "North Star"
  10. "Bowery"
  11. "Texas 71"
  12. "Down the Wrong Road Both Ways"

Black Ram edit

(Produced by David Lowery[2])

  1. "In the Human World"
  2. "The Black Ram"
  3. "What's Broken Becomes Better"
  4. "Will-O-the-Wisp"
  5. "Kanawha"
  6. "A Little at a Time"
  7. "Blackbird"
  8. "And the Moon Hits the Water"
  9. "The Old Horizon"

Sun Session edit

(Engineered by James Lott [3])

  1. "Talk to Me Devil, Again"
  2. "Memphis Moon"
  3. "Hold on Magnolia"
  4. "Trouble in Mind"

Shohola edit

(Recorded by Jason Molina[4])

  1. "Steady Now"
  2. "Spanish Moon Fall and Rise"
  3. "Night Country"
  4. "Shiloh Temple Bell"
  5. "The Spell"
  6. "Take One Thing Along"
  7. "The Lamb's Song"
  8. "Roll the Wheel"
  1. One Thin Dime (iTunes bonus track)
  2. Lonesome Valley (Alternate) (iTunes bonus track)

References edit

  1. ^ "Magnolia Electric Co.: Sojourner". Pitchfork.
  2. ^ "Magnolia Electric Co.: Sojourner". Pitchfork.
  3. ^ "R.I.P. Jason Molina – Underground Bee".
  4. ^ "Jason Molina".

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