My Morning Jacket

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

Band name

The band's name should therefore come, that the singer Jim James had an old jacket with the inscription " MMJ " found.

Band Members

  • Jim James ( vocals, guitar, songwriting )
  • Patrick Hallahan (drums)
  • Carl Broemel (guitar, pedal steel, saxophone, vocals)

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

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

History

The Tennessee Fire, the debut album, was released in 1999 on the independent label Darla Records, as well as At Dawn two years later. In 2003, she released It Still Moves, their debut on a major label. On the then appeared live EP Acoustic Citsuoca James' vocal talent came into full light. His voice was complemented by a thrifty instrumentation. The plate came out without the otherwise typical for the band reverb.

After three albums and several EPs, the band released two compilations with early works, including old demos, live recordings and covers are heard ( Early Recordings Chapter 1 - The Sandworm Cometh and Early Recordings Chapter 2 - Learning).

My Morning Jacket occurred from 2003 to 2006 every year at the Bonnaroo Music Festival, the only band that has ever approached the honor to be invited four times in succession.

2005 James sang on the album I'm Wide Awake, It 's Morning of Bright Eyes, and 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 fictional Southern rock band Ruckus, whereby they covered Lynyrd Skynyrd, among others, " Free Bird". Their songs "Where to Begin" and "Same In Any Language" could be heard on the soundtrack to the film.

The music television series Austin City Limits 2006 shone a show with My Morning Jacket from the same year she appeared at the Coachella Valley Music Festival on, as the High Sierra Music Festival. 2006 James got the " Esky " in the April issue of Esquire magazine awarded as best songwriter. In June, they were guests of talk show host David Letterman. My Morning Jacket played in the May / June 2005 opening for Pearl Jam in the U.S. and are for the European tour, which will begin in September, also invited where My Morning Jacket will also play some of my own shows.

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

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

2009 the band finally made ​​an appearance in the animated series American Dad, in which the band members also talked themselves.

Discography

Albums

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
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