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  Bob Dylan Packs Wilco, My Morning Jacket for Traveling AmericanaramA Tour

  April 22, 2013 – Bob Dylan is still on the road supporting last year's Essential Tempest, but the iconic singer-songwriter has just unveiled plans to lead an all-star summer tour with two of your dad's other favorite artists: Wilco and My Morning Jacket.According to Wilco's official website, the traveling showcase — dubbed AmericanaramA Festival of Music — will hit 26 venues across North America. …
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  My Morning Jacket Sweetly Cover John Denver's 'Leaving on a Jet Plane'

  February 27, 2013 – Beloved singer-songwriter John Denver may not be a frequently name-checked influence on today's current crop of legends in the making, but his shadow looms large over any hoping to craft pop-leaning Americana or folk. …
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  Soul Man: Jim James Sees the Light at New York's McKittrick Hotel

  February 21, 2013 –  …
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  Hear Jim James Discuss the Head Injury and Graphic Novel That Inspired His Solo Debut

  February 6, 2013 – "Enter the mystic." So begins longtime SPIN contributor Richard Gehr's review today of My Morning Jacket frontman Jim James' soulful solo debut, Regions of Light and Sounds of God. …
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  Jim James and the Roots Start 'A New Life' and Help It Grow on 'Fallon'

  February 5, 2013 – "All I've really done solo before is play guitar and sing," Jim James said of live performances recently in an interview with SPIN's David Marchese. "I want a different experience." James delivered one last night on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon."A New Life," a '50s-bopping standout from the leonine My Morning Jacket frontman's first solo album under his own name, Regions of Light and Sound of God (out today on A …
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  Into the 'Light': Jim James Goes Deep on Solo Album

  November 15, 2012 – Sitting pensively and half-hidden in shadows at the bar of the artfully shabby McKittrick Hotel performance space on Manhattan's far west side, Jim James resembled one of his own inspirations. In 2008, a friend gave the My Morning Jacket frontman a copy of Lynd Ward's 1929 proto-graphic novel Gods' Man. …
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  Jim James on Health Care

  October 22, 2012 – The most important topic to me in this election is healthcare. Everyone, regardless of race, age, creed, or economic standing in this country should be well taken care of. Period. End of story. It makes me so sad to think of homeless citizens on the street in dire need of good medical care — be it physical or mental — with no access. …
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  See My Morning Jacket's Acid Test 'Outta My System' Video

  August 6, 2012 – While the Curiosity rover is up on Mars collecting dirt and taking pictures, My Morning Jacket are out exploring parts of the galaxy only reachable by pharmaceutical grade acid in their new video for "Outta My System." The song endorses doing drugs just to get the desire to do those drugs "outta your system," so of course the video is trippy as hell, with My Morning Jacket transformed into cartoon cyclops navigating an extraterrestrial  …
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  Newport Folk Festival 2012 Breakdown: MMJ, Weed Jokes, Giant Chickens

  July 30, 2012 – This weekend, the Newport Folk Festival returned to Rhode Island's Fort Adams State Park for its 53rd year. …
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  Jim James on His First Solo LP and New Passion: Remixing

  July 13, 2012 – Touring for My Morning Jacket's Grammy-nominated Circuital is still underway — including a headlining spot at this weekend's Forecastle Festival, which they helped curate — but frontman Jim James has still found the time to record his first solo album under his own name and start moonlighting as a remixer. Earlier this week, James told SPIN that while he's finished the record, which will contain nine songs and will likely c …
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