City Hall Review

[LaurieBlue]

Nashville Scene

http://www.nashvillescene.com/Stories/Arts/Music/The_Spin/2005/10/13/The_Spin/index.shtml

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October 13, 2005

Town meetings

• City Hall. It sounds like a place where important things happen, where serious business gets done. At least, that's how it was Saturday night. Making our way past ID checkers and ticket-takers, we stepped into a sea of bodies, their arms raised and pumping emphatically. Was it a rally? Some kind of church service? Definitely not the former, maybe a little of the latter. Onstage, the members of My Morning Jacket set their tangled coifs in frenzied motion and went about the business of rocking like it was 1975...or is that 1985? No, 2005: no matter how much MMJ bring to mind the rock 'n' roll heroics of yore—blazing guitars, howling vocals, pounding drums—there's something assuredly contemporary about them. For one thing, there's none of that macho vibe we're used to getting from rock bands—they make music, as one person in the crowd put it, "for boys and girls." The band opened with material off their new album Z that moved in some unexpected directions: lots of keyboards, some reggae beats, musical quotes from "Hawaii Five-O" and "Bennie & the Jets." The crowd was right there with 'em, and when MMJ launched into "One Big Holiday" from It Still Moves, the whole place practically heaved with excitement. It was like that all night—an honest-to-God rock show, with people singing along and shaking their heads. True to form, the last five or six songs of the evening all closed out with a Big Finish, each one bigger than the last, as stage lights flashed, arms flailed and, finally, a lone lighter flickered aloft in the crowd

[antoniostrohs]

Nice review. Thanks again to Ace Reporter LaurieBlue .;D