Jim James: 12/8/15

The Moment with Brian Koppelman

Brian Koppelman & Gemini XIII

Tv & Film

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2015

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

This week on The Moment, Brian Koppelman talks to Jim James, the lead singer and songwriter for the band My Morning Jacket. Brian and Jim talk about the band’s latest album, The Waterfall, and the message within many of their songs. Plus, Jim meditates on criticism and its role in the artistic process, how his songs are created over several years in a garden of ideas, and what it feels like, minutes before he steps on the stage, to bring a group of people together around one common cause --- love. Topics mentioned: The Waterfall album “Compound Fracture” by My Morning Jacket Z album “Wordless Chorus” by My Morning Jacket RPM – A non profit organization Bruce Springsteen’s Harry Chapin Tribute E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction by David Foster Wallace “I’m Amazed” by My Morning Jacket The New Basement Tapes (w/ Elvis Costello, Marcus Mumford, Rhiannon Giddens, and Taylor Goldsmith) “Blues Run the Game” by Jackson Frank One Big Circle: How My Morning Jacket Rebounded With Its Best Album in a Decade by Steven Hyden Out of Time album “Me and Honey” by REM "Country Feedback” by REM Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron “Believe (Nobody Knows)” by My Morning Jacket Led Zeppelin III “Tangerine” by Led Zeppelin People mentioned: Jim James Indigo Girls Bob Dylan Curtis Mayfield Neil Young Eckhart Tolle Lou Reed Michael Stipe and Peter Buck REM Monsters of Folk Nick Drake Washington Phillips Paul Simon Van Halen Motley Crue Nirvana Pearl Jam The Replacements Ken Wilbur Jack Kornfield This episode of The Moment is brought to you by Braintree. Looking to set up payments for your business? Braintree gives your app or website a payment solution that accepts just about every payment method with one simple integration. Plus, we’ll give you your first $50,000 in transactions fee-\xadfree. To learn more, visit BraintreePayments.com/Moment. And by The Message, an original science fiction podcast from Panoply and GE Podcast Theater. All of Season 1 is available now, so listen and find out why a 70-year-old alien recording seems to be killing people. Search for The Message on iTunes. Email: [email protected] Twitter: @BrianKoppelman iTunes: itunes.com/themoment To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The moment is brought to you by Braintree.
0:01.6	Looking to set up payments for your business, Braintree gives your app or website a payment
0:05.2	solution that accepts just about every payment method with one simple integration.
0:09.2	Plus, we'll give you your first 50,000 in transactions fee-free.
0:14.4	To learn more, visit Braintree Payments.com
0:16.8	slash Moment.
0:18.0	And by the message, an original science fiction podcast,
0:21.0	from Panoply and GE Podcast Theater Theater all of season one is available now.
0:24.5	So listen and find out why a 70 year old alien recording seems to be killing people.
0:29.2	Search for the message on iTunes.
0:31.1	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:34.0	Hey, this is the moment.
0:36.0	I'm Brian Cobbleman.
0:37.0	Thanks for listening.
0:38.0	Today's podcast is really exciting because Jim James from my morning jacket is one of the great songwriter, singer, band leaders around.
0:48.0	I mean songs like I'm amazed.
0:50.0	I'm amazed like this evolution. I went across the street from where I live to the Beacon Theater where he was performing that night.
1:06.0	I think the only times I've traveled to do the show have been for musicians for Killer Mike, for Jason Isble, now for Jim James.
1:13.0	And each time it's been worth it.
1:14.8	Each of these people really thinks deeply about life,
1:19.0	their place in the world, the purpose of what they do.
1:22.2	If you dig the show, please review it on iTunes, let people know,
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