LA Weekly-Morning In America: Why My Morning Jacket Is the Best Live Band in the World
The LA Weekly let me ramble at-length and with messianic zeal about My Morning Jacket in advance of their Coachella performance next weekend. I think it came out well, though ideally I would’ve loved to have had the chance to conduct in-person interviews with the band. That said, Jim James, bassist Two-Tone Tommy and Bo Koster spoke graciously and candidly to me over the phone and I got to the bottom of how high they were when they decided to do an Oregon Trail skit on their New Year’s Eve show 2007 (answer: not very). The performance in question is posted below, along with the lead single leaked from Evil Urges, their new and very-good album. And if you’re going to Coachella, it goes without saying…
LA Weekly: Morning in America-Why My Morning Jacket Are the Best Live Band In the WorldÂ
Download:
MP3: My Morning Jacket-”Evil Urges”
ZIP: My Morning Jacket-Live 12/31/06 @ The Fillmore, San Francisco (left-click)
April 21st, 2008 at 5:08 am
it could have been the hefeweizen, but i vaguely remember you saying something about being a fairly big my morning jacket “stan.”
i think i speak for us all when i say that the world is much better for it.
April 21st, 2008 at 8:49 am
I’m already seeing people bash this song. Personally, I think this is a great song. So what if it has a little early Lenny Kravitz vibe. The more you listen to “Evil Urges” the more you pick up on the subtleties of the music and whatever reservations you have about Jim James’s voice disappears. Amazing band, amazing song.
April 21st, 2008 at 11:22 am
I kinda thought Okonokos sucked…
April 21st, 2008 at 11:41 am
The first track is awesome. The rest of the album? Not so much, really. I have been a long time (since ‘At Dawn’ came out) and very big fan, and I am pretty letdown by this record as a whole. Some good tracks, don’t get me wrong, but, by far, the lesser of ‘AD’, ‘ISM’ and ‘Z’.
April 21st, 2008 at 12:45 pm
Thanx for the live concert zip!
April 21st, 2008 at 1:10 pm
Great article, Jeff.