Webster Hall Review - Niiice

[LaurieBlue]

http://au.launch.yahoo.com/051019/11/bir6.html

Alt-country Jacket proves a good multigenre fit
(Reuters, Thursday October 20, 9:05 AM)

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - My Morning Jacket opened its Webster Hall show Tuesday cloaked in darkness, a choice that forced the sold-out crowd away from distractions and invited them to watch the band's highly visual alternative country-rock with their ears.

With the atmosphere primed after "Wordless Chorus," from the new album "Z," the light switch was flipped and singer-songwriter-guitarist Jim James, bassist Two-Tone Tommy, drummer Patrick Hallahan and the group's newest members, keyboardist Bo Koster and guitarist Carl Broemel, launched into "It Beats 4 U."

The band's multigenre compositions veered down a country road one minute on the Western piano keys of "Lay Low" and vibed '70s spy-series music riffs with ska colorings the next on "Off the Record." One constant in between the spacey dance grooves and soul-absorbing songs was James' peacefulness with his reverb. His echoed vocals chilled "Gideon" and were haunted on one of the show's highlights, "Dondante," during which Broemel strapped on a saxophone to join the six-minute disturbance. ADVERTISEMENT

James invited opening act Kathleen Edwards out for "Golden," from her album "It Still Moves"; she sweetly joined James on a song that suited both of their roots-quality voices, singing, "People always told me that bars are dark and lonely and talk is cheap."

The set list also included the toylike ditty "What a Wonderful Man"; "One Big Holiday," with its doodling guitar work; and "Run Thru," with James' Kentucky-born cries howling balcony-bound.

By the time My Morning Jacket ended with the energized "Anytime," they had proved that reggae-rinsed rhythms, '50s candy-store music, churning organs and sparse arrangements made perfect sense.

Reuters/Hollywood Reporter
 

[tdan]

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...from her album "It Still Moves";

"People always told me that bars are dark and lonely and talk is cheap."

"One Big Holiday," with its doodling guitar work;

Glad for the positive reviews, but lazy journalism strikes again.