« Back to Top Level | My Morning Jacket

My Morning Jacket - EPS and ephemera (2004)

Track listing:
  1. Can you see the hard helmet .. 3:43
  2. O is the One that Is Real 3:39
  3. The Way That He Sings (demo) 5:03
  4. How Do You Know 4:48
  5. I Just Wanted To Say 6:30
  6. Sooner 3:36
  7. Come Closer 4:59
  8. They Ran (Acoustic) 3:32
  9. Weeks Go By Like Days 4:17
  10. White Rabbit 2:35
  11. New Morning 4:07
  12. The Year in Review 2:35
  13. Holy 1:59
  14. Translation 10:09
  15. Sweetheart 3:05
  16. Tonite I want to celebrate wit 2:26
  17. Chills (demo) 7:29
  18. Interview with Jim James (Live 3:25
  19. Mother 6:35
  20. Rocket Man 5:00
  21. Tyrone 5:09
  22. When will they come 2:19

Notes

My Morning Jacket is a four-piece band from Louisville, KY, built solidly around the vocal and songwriting talent of group leader Jim James. Their sound is lonesome, haunting, almost classic country at times, and that voice — Jim James' voice shares the same section of that old country highway with the familiar sounds of Neil Young, yet sounds right at home here in the world of independent American pop music, alongside contemporary singers like the Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne and Galaxie 500's Dean Wareham. Like Galaxie 500, My Morning Jacket weaves songs and sounds together perfectly — underneath the big open sky filled with bright stars of course — never allowing the heavy reverb (and the reverb is definitely heavy) to subtract anything from the visual lyrics, or from the simple beauty of the songs themselves.
Along with singer Jim James, My Morning Jacket is made up of cousin Johnny Quaid (guitar), Two-Tone Tommy (bass), and J. Glenn (drums). The band released their debut on Darla Records in 1999, the critically acclaimed The Tennessee Fire, and found themselves gaining popularity not only in the United States, but in Europe as well, the Benelux countries being particularly fond of My Morning Jacket. They have logged four tours of Belgium and the Netherlands and have been the subject of a Dutch documentary film. The band's second album, At Dawn, finds My Morning Jacket virtually unchanged (but with two new members: Danny Cash riding keyboards and KC Guetig on the drums) with more of the same high-quality writing: hauntingly beautiful melodies all drenched with that (by now) familiar reverb and featuring that unique and emotive voice. My Morning Jacket lives in a world of wide-open spaces covered with a velvet sky, not alt-country, not indie rock, just beautify classic Americana music. In January 2004, Quaid and Cash announced their departure. Quaid had plans to return to his country home in Kentucky while Cash left due to a heavy touring schedule.