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‘He had this electrical charge’: the short life and long legacy of Jason Molina, master of Americana

As a documentary celebrates the late US musician, friends and collaborators describe an incomparable storyteller who brought ‘myth and magic to everyday life’ Jason Molina grew up in a trailer in the working-class city of Lorain, Ohio.

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