December 2011
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Steam Engine, My Morning Jacket live at the...
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October 2011
Jim James: I'm Jim and I play guitar and I sing
Patrick Hallahan: I'm Patrick and I play the drums
Jim James: And we've known each other since fourth grade, we have the same birthday. I'm four minutes older.
Interviewer: Did you guys have beards back then?
Jim James: We did
Jim James and Patrick Hallahan together: We came out with beards
Patrick Hallahan: I think that's what it was that drew us together, that we were the only fourth graders with beards
Jim James: Yeah
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Touch Me, I’m Going To Scream Pt. 2. (My...
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Rocket Man, My Morning Jacket
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Vanity Fair interview, 2009
Jim James: It was out at our old studio, which was on my cousin’s grandparents’ farm, in Shelbyville, Kentucky. We rented this big taxidermic grizzly bear, and it’s so funny when I think back on it, because you could just, like, Photoshop that kind of shit in. But we didn’t.
Sam Erickson: If we had tried to do it digitally, it just wouldn’t have been as cool.
Jim James: Yeah, I agree. I’m so glad we didn’t. But it’s hilarious to look back, in retrospect, and think about seven grown men hefting a stuffed grizzly bear up through this hole in the side of a barn.
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Listen to and pre-order "Chimes of Freedom: The... →
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El Caporal, My Morning Jacket
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Listen to or download My Morning Jacket Live at... →
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“I’m a 20-year-old video-store clerk playing in a band. A bandmate gives me a...”
– Tom Blankenship, looking back at the time around The Tennessee Fire
October 2010
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My Morning Jacket holiday EP →
SPECIAL HOLIDAY EP of music recorded while the band was on tour in Europe titled “My Morning Jacket: iTunes Session” available now in iTunes. This EP features covers of your Christmas favorites along with one brand new song called “Welcome Home” and a beautiful rendition of Circuital’s “Wonderful (The Way I Feel)”. Recorded in Amsterdam, this EP also...
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My Morning Jacket, interview at Lollapalooza 2011
Patrick Hallahan: I would personally tell my 1998 self not to take no for an answer and to... not care about what other people think I guess. I would definitely try to instill some more confidence in that head of his.
Jim James: In 1998 I was really worried about the Y2K distaster
Patrick Hallahan: [laughs]
Jim James: So I would really look back and tell myself that Y2K is, just don't worry about it. Y'know, it's going to be okay, even...
Carl Broemel: The Mayan Calendar
Jim James: Yeah it's more about 2012
Patrick Hallahan: You brought up the Mayan Calendar now [laughs]
Jim James: Don't worry about 2000, worry about 2012 [more laughs] Because that's... Yup, you got plenty of time.
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“I would have to say that it is a tie between my Takamine G332 acoustic guitar...”
– Jim James, when asked which guitar is most special to him
March 2007
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- Dondante, My Morning Jacket live at The Electric...
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“My black 1988 Les Paul Standard is definitely the most special guitar in my...”
– Carl Broemel
March 2007
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“A friend of mine used to play bass with this Oklahoma City Trio. He swore by...”
– Bo Koster, talking about Hanson
February 2008
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“People ask me what my first musical experience was, and it’s what I heard...”
– Jim James
November 2005