My Morning Jacket

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My Morning Jacket performing in Dallas, Texas, 2006
My Morning Jacket performing in Dallas, Texas, 2006
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
It still moves
  UK 62 09/20/2003 (1 week)
  US 121 09/27/2003 (3 weeks)
Z
  UK 74 October 29, 2005 (1 week)
  US 67 10/22/2005 (6 weeks)
Okonokos
  US 131 10/14/2006 (1 week)
Evil Urges
  US 9 06/28/2008 (13 weeks)
Celebración de la Ciudad Natal (EP)
  US 158 05/02/2009 (1 week)
Circuital
  UK 60 06/18/2011 (1 week)
  US 5 06/18/2011 (12 weeks)
The Waterfall
  UK 42 05/16/2015 (1 week)
  US 11 05/23/2015 (4 weeks)

My Morning Jacket is an American rock band from Louisville , Kentucky . It was founded in 1998.

Band name

The band name is said to come from the fact that the singer Jim James had found an old coat with the inscription "MMJ".

Band members

  • Jim James (vocals, guitar, songwriting)
  • "Two Tone" Tommy (bass)
  • Patrick Hallahan (drums)
  • Carl Broemel (guitar, pedal steel, saxophone, vocals)
  • Bo Koster (keyboard)

At the end of 2000 the first drummer J. Glenn left the band, was briefly replaced by Chris Guetig and then in May 2002 by Patrick Hallahan, a friend from Jim James' childhood days.

In 2004 founding member Johnny Quaid (guitar) and Danny Cash (keyboards), who joined in 2000, left the band in friendship and were replaced by Carl Broemel and Bo Koster.

history

The Tennessee Fire , the debut album, was released on the independent label Darla Records in 1999 , as was At Dawn two years later. In 2003 they released It Still Moves , their debut on a major label . James' singing talent came to the fore on the live EP Acoustic Citsuoca , which was released afterwards . His voice was complemented by a sparse instrumentation. The record managed without the reverb that is otherwise typical for the band .

After three albums and various EPs, the band released two compilations of early works that also include old demos, live recordings and covers ( Early Recordings Chapter 1 - The Sandworm Cometh and Early Recordings Chapter 2 - Learning ).

My Morning Jacket performed annually at the Bonnaroo Music Festival from 2003 to 2006 , as the only band ever to be invited four times in a row.

In 2005 James sang on the album I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning by the Bright Eyes , and also on two songs from M. Ward's album Transistor Radio . In October of this year they released the album Z in the USA. It got good reviews.

In 2005, the band appeared in Cameron Crowe's film, Elizabethtown, as the fictional southern rock band Ruckus , including covering Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Freebird". Her songs "Where to Begin" and "Same In Any Language" were also featured on the film's soundtrack.

The music television series Austin City Limits aired a show with My Morning Jacket in 2006, in the same year they appeared at the Coachella Valley Music Festival , as well as at the High Sierra Music Festival. In 2006 James received the "Esky" award for best songwriter in the April issue of Esquire magazine . In June they were guests of talk show host David Letterman . My Morning Jacket played in May / June 2005 in the opening act for Pearl Jam .

My Morning Jacket (2015)

Jim James also appears in the film I'm Not There by Todd Haynes , along with Calexico on. There they play in a scene by Bob Dylan Going To Acapulco . In this line-up (Jim James & Calexico) a version of the same title is also included on the score for the film, which was released in 2007 on Columbia Records . In the Soundtrack Concert held at the Beacon Theater in New York City on November 7, 2007 , My Morning Jacket appeared under the Bob Dylan title Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You .

The band also covered Elton John's Rocket Man. The song was used as the closing song in the first episode of the series Californication .

In 2009, the band finally made an appearance in the cartoon series American Dad , in which the band members also spoke to themselves.

Discography

Albums

  • 1999: The Tennessee Fire
  • 2001: At Dawn
  • 2003: It Still Moves
  • 2004: Early Recordings Chapter 1 - The Sandworm Cometh
  • 2004: Early Recordings Chapter 2 - Learning
  • 2005: Z
  • 2006: Okonokos (double live album)
  • 2008: Evil Urges
  • 2009: Celebración de la Ciudad Natal (EP)
  • 2011: Circuital
  • 2015: Waterfall

EPs

  • 2000: Heartbreakin Man
  • 2002: Split EP (with Songs: OHIA)
  • 2002: Chocolate and Ice
  • 2002: Sweatbees
  • 2002: My Morning Jacket Does Xmas Fiasco Style
  • 2004: Acoustic Citsuoca

Singles

  • 2000: My Morning Jacket Does Bad Jazz
  • 2001: My Morning Jacket Does Gold Hole
  • 2003: Just Because I Do
  • 2003: Run Thru
  • 2005: Off The Record
  • 2007: The 2006-2007 New Year's Eve Skit Picture Disc Skit

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chart sources: UK - US
  2. ↑ http://www.rollingstone.com/news/profile/story/8719246/kentuckys_finest
  3. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1546470/

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