My Morning Jacket's Jim James
Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
Pushkin Industries
4.5 • 4.2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2020
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Jim James talks about and performs some songs off My Morning Jacket's The Waterfall 2. The album of holdovers from the band's 2015 album came out in July. Jim explains to Bruce Headlam why these songs finally came out five years after The Waterfall. And other exciting projects the band are sitting on. Plus what it was like to tour with Bob Dylan and Wilco and why My Morning Jacket might not exist if it wasn't for Kermit the Frog's "Rainbow Connection."
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| 0:00.0 | Music |
| 0:16.0 | Music has always been an escape for Jim James. |
| 0:20.0 | From the time he started playing guitar as a shy teenager in Louisville, Kentucky, |
| 0:24.0 | through his decades-long success as the frontman of My Morning Jacket, |
| 0:28.0 | his goal has always been the same, to lose himself and the music. |
| 0:32.0 | Music |
| 0:50.0 | Since starting My Morning Jacket in 1998, he's released eight albums of the band, |
| 0:55.0 | along with several critically acclaimed solo and side projects. |
| 0:59.0 | And despite his prodigious output, Jim doesn't seem to be running out of material. |
| 1:03.0 | In July, the Jacket released the Waterfall 2, a complete album of holdovers from their 2015 album, The Waterfall. |
| 1:11.0 | And according to Jim, they've got another full album already recorded. |
| 1:15.0 | Jim's also sitting on a solo project from 1998 that he's recently started tinkering with again. |
| 1:21.0 | On today's episode, Jim talks to Bruce Hadlam about how after decades of performing, |
| 1:27.0 | he was only recently able to open his eyes on stage to make eye contact with the crowd. |
| 1:31.0 | We'll also hear some acoustic songs Jim recorded exclusively for Broken Record. |
| 1:35.0 | And he talks about how My Morning Jacket might not exist if it had been for Kermit the Frog's Rainbow Connection. |
| 1:43.0 | Music |
| 1:45.0 | This is Broken Record, line of notes for the digital age. I'm Justin Richmond. |
| 1:51.0 | Music |
| 1:55.0 | Here's Bruce Hadlam's conversation with Jim James. |
| 1:59.0 | Tell me about Waterfalls 2. Tell me how it all came about. |
| 2:03.0 | It's definitely not a leftovers record or a V-sides record. |
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