My Morning Jacket: Z
CML call number: CD/ROCK/My
Artist website: http://www.mymorningjacket.com/
As Rolling Stone wrote: "This Louisville, Kentucky, band's idea of interstellar overdrive comes with the distorted snort of Lynyrd Skynyrd-style guitars and the whiff of bluegrass wet with morning dew. The most high-flying thing about My Morning Jacket is still guitarist-songwriter Jim James' glassy, near-falsetto singing. But on the group's second major-label album, James nails his flights of fancy and worry with an invigorating attention to earthy modernism: pop-song structure ('What a Wonderful Man'), hip-hop-inflected beats, reggae-train rhythms ('Wordless Chorus,' 'Off the Record'). The result: electric Dixie soul bright with star shine, climaxing in 'Dondante' with a shrieking-guitar meltdown that sounds like the '68 Pink Floyd rocketing through 'Free Bird'" ("The Top 50 Records of 2005", 12/29/05-1/12/06).
Visit the NPR website to hear My Morning Jacket's "experimental country-rock" in concert.
Besides excellent music, this CD boasts an outstanding cover illustration by Kathleen Lolley.
Artist website: http://www.mymorningjacket.com/
As Rolling Stone wrote: "This Louisville, Kentucky, band's idea of interstellar overdrive comes with the distorted snort of Lynyrd Skynyrd-style guitars and the whiff of bluegrass wet with morning dew. The most high-flying thing about My Morning Jacket is still guitarist-songwriter Jim James' glassy, near-falsetto singing. But on the group's second major-label album, James nails his flights of fancy and worry with an invigorating attention to earthy modernism: pop-song structure ('What a Wonderful Man'), hip-hop-inflected beats, reggae-train rhythms ('Wordless Chorus,' 'Off the Record'). The result: electric Dixie soul bright with star shine, climaxing in 'Dondante' with a shrieking-guitar meltdown that sounds like the '68 Pink Floyd rocketing through 'Free Bird'" ("The Top 50 Records of 2005", 12/29/05-1/12/06).
Visit the NPR website to hear My Morning Jacket's "experimental country-rock" in concert.
Besides excellent music, this CD boasts an outstanding cover illustration by Kathleen Lolley.
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