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
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