My Morning Jacket's 'Z': Jim James Looks Back on the Classic Album's 20th Anniversary

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🗓️ 30 September 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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My Morning Jacket frontman Jim James looks back at the dark emotional currents that gave birth to one of his band's greatest albums, 2005's Z, in a deep, confessional interview with host Brian Hiatt. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:57.9	slash try. I'm Brian Hyatt. This is Rolling Stone Music Now. 20 years ago, I first met up with the band My Morning
1:07.9	Jacket, who had just put out an incredible album called Z, which followed up another incredible
1:13.3	album called It Still Moves.
1:23.4	They were and are one of the best live bands of the 21st century.
1:27.7	And those two very different albums probably represent their studio peaks so far.
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