Performer: My Morning Jacket
Songwriter: Jim James
Original Release: Z
Year: 2005
Definitive Version: None
I suppose to a certain extent part of the impetus for this vanity project is to accomplish one of my favorite things: Turn people on to music that they might not have heard before. One of my top recommendations these days is My Morning Jacket.
Like a lot of other folks, I latched on to them in 2005 when Z surfaced and have been on the bandwagon since. I like to call them my favorite “new band” to differentiate them from the bands that I’ve listened to since the days of records, but My Morning Jacket is anything but new, of course. Still, I believe that as long as you’re receptive to new things, you might learn something you didn’t know before and continue to grow. Plus, you can be the designated grandpa surrounded by young hipsters when you go to see a band live.
Anyway, my buddy Jim has introduced me to a lot of great music over the years—most notably Marvin Gaye and Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska—and this year I was finally able to repay a couple of dollars of my musical debt. We went to a Cubs game in the spring. The action on the field being mediocre—this is the Cubs we’re talking about here—we started talking about music. That’s when I told him about My Morning Jacket, which had flown off his radar. I recommended Z as the starting point. He said he would check them out and later sent me an email saying he loved Z and this song in particular.
Mission accomplished.
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