14 DAY TRIAL // Prolific and extremely talented singer and songwriter Jason Molina, leader of Songs: Ohia and Magnolia Electric Co. has died of organ failure from alcohol consumption. Molina was just 39 years old.
Rolling Stone confirms the sad news.
It also notes that Molina had been struggling with severe alcoholism for nearly a decade, a struggle that only became public in 2011, when the star’s people had to turn to fans for help with paying his medical bills because he did not have insurance.
“We're going to miss Jason. He was generous. He was a one of a kind. And he had a voice unlike any other,” a statement on the Magnolia Electric Co. reads.
Above all, he was tormented.
“But maybe, just maybe, his music was eluding to what was fighting inside him. The demons. The ghosts. The pain. The disease,” Molina’s good friend Henry Ownings says.