January 2016
Here is the story of my January, in pictures, songs and videos. We started the new year by hosting a New Year’s Eve dinner. Gray, playing guitar for us after dinner, by the fire Maile, Anais and I...
View ArticleJuly 2016 Singalong at Barton Springs
With summer upon us, we moved the singalong to Barton Springs to beat the heat Sunday, July 3rd. It was a wonderfully windy and somewhat overcast day beneath the trees, with a good holiday-weekend...
View ArticleSeptember 2016 Singalong at Barton Springs
We had another great annual installment of my bday singalong – I turned 44 on Monday, a day after the singalong – on Sunday at Barton Springs. My main man Doug showed up with guitar and played along...
View ArticleI Can See You (song and new video)
I wrote this song at the beach in Port Aransas, TX, and combined it with a video I took one day at the beach in San Diego. It’s about several idyllic scenes with Maile, my love. Released November 27,...
View ArticleTom Waits’ TIME from the Trail of Lights
I got to play the Zilker Trail of Lights again this year for UT Night. Anais got up on stage with me a few times. The wonderful folks in the crowd got a conga line going, first song! I played a few...
View ArticleStairwell Sessions 1 & 2: Ambience and Beach Boys
There’s this great echoey stairwell in the business school where I used to work. I’ve started going back over there. It’s got a great resonance and is hidden at the back corner of the building and...
View ArticleDylan Singalong at Little Stacy Park
We gathered in the pavilion at Little Stacy Park on the first Sunday of June – 6/4/2017 – and had a great time singing Dylan songs. Here are a setlist, video and a few photos, below. The video features...
View ArticleLunchtime Concert at UT, Fri. Nov. 3, 2017
Ralph and I played our first lunchtime concert at UT since Feb. 2016 so it felt good to get back out there on the shady banks of Waller Creek and rock out. Here’s a version of Cat Stevens’s If You...
View ArticleAll I Wanna Do (Canyon Lake Version)
I had a weekend to myself in Canyon Lake with Joe’s Princeton Reverb and I took the opportunity to record this beautiful Brian Wilson classic. Jason Molin covering Brian Wilson All I Wanna DoJason...
View ArticleThe Molin Family Sings at the Trail of Lights
I was especially thrilled and proud to sing at UT Night at the Trail of Lights this year because for the first time Maile AND Anais both joined me singing on stage. We sang, walked the trail, sat with...
View ArticleMANTRAS Update, Dec. 2017
Here is a rough-cut of the second song on my upcoming EP, MANTRAS: Jason Molin I Have Arrived v.1.2Jason MolinI Have Arrived v.1.2 I started MANTRAS in 2013 when I chose four songs (#s 1-4 below) that...
View ArticleCinescapes #2
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View ArticleMLK Day 2018: Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)
For Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday this year I thought I’d record this favorite from my Sunday singalong songbook, George Harrison’s Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth). So I took my Martin...
View ArticleInternational Clash Day 2018: I’m So Bored with the U.S.A.
In honor of #InternationalClashDay I recorded I’m So Bored with the U.S.A. in the stairwell today on my lunch break. Long live The Clash!!! Jason Molin covers The Clash I'm So Bored with the...
View ArticleIcy Cinema
At the end of two hours of improvising music today, we were tossing out name ideas when Darrel said Amen, Icy Cinema, which is a palindrome. To which I said, Icy Cinema and the three of us looked at...
View ArticleHuman Beings
Today would be the 56th birthday of brother Franklin. Before him, we lost our father at about the same age. I wrote this song for them, and all the people who are struggling with addictions. I tried to...
View ArticleIcy Cinema: Feb. 24, 2018
Last Saturday morning we gathered around Gray’s baby grand piano and this is what happened. Icy Cinema NarcokleptophiliacIcy CinemaNarcokleptophiliac 2 {{svg_share_icon}}{{heart_svg}}LikeLikedFree...
View ArticleFischer Follies
On the day of the Fischer Follies last Saturday Joe got me on the bill and it became a complete family affair. Joe played four songs, I played three, then Maile and Ellyn told a story with Anais on...
View ArticleThe Molin Family Sings at the Trail of Lights
I was especially thrilled and proud to sing at UT Night at the Trail of Lights this year because for the first time Maile AND Anais both joined me singing on stage. We sang, walked the trail, sat with...
View ArticleMANTRAS Update, Jan. 2018
I started MANTRAS in 2013 when I chose four songs (#s 1-4 below) that have a reggae/ska feel. I dreamed of a horn section for these and contacted a great local trombone player and arranger (of Grupo...
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