My Morning Jacket has announced a run of spring tour dates in support of the band’s new album, is, less than 48 hours after performing the record’s lead single, “Time Waited”, on Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Released in mid-January along with a music video directed by acclaimed photographer Danny Clinch, “Time Waited” was the first preview of MMJ’s forthcoming album, the band’s first in three years, which is due out on March 21st via ATO Records. The track started with a sample of a piano part from pedal-steel virtuoso Buddy Emmons’ fabled album, Emmons Guitar Inc.
“I made a loop of that piano intro and listened as I went for a walk, and all these melodies started coming to me,” MMJ frontman Jim James explained. “For a long time, I didn’t have lyrics, but then I had a dream where I was in a café and a song was playing, and the lyrics to that song became the lyrics to ‘Time Waited’ – the melodies just fit perfectly. And the lyrics are about how flexible time is, how we can bend and warp time, especially if we are following our hearts, the universe and time itself can flow to work with us.”
“Time Waited” is one of ten songs set to appear on is. According to a press release, the record started with over 100 demos recorded during two “highly exploratory” writing and recording sessions. Unlike the band’s previous albums, all nine of which were produced or co-produced by frontman Jim James, is was made with outside help. MMJ welcomed three-time Grammy-winning producer Brendan O’Brien, who has worked with Bruce Springsteen, Pearl Jam, and many other chart-topping bands, to help push the group in a new and unexpected direction.
“Up until now I’ve never been able to let go and allow someone else to steer the ship,” James said of working with O’Brien. “It almost felt like an out-of-body experience to step back and give control over to someone who’s far more accomplished and made so many more records than us, but in the end I was able to enjoy the process maybe more than I ever have before.”
Watch My Morning Jacket perform “Time Waited” on Jimmy Kimmel Live! below. Click here to check out the song’s Danny Clinch-directed video and read more about is.
My Morning Jacket – “Time Waited”
My Morning Jacket will celebrate the album’s release with a newly announced spring tour kicking off April 1st in Chattanooga, TN with support from Bendigo Fletcher, Grace Cummings, Lacey Guthrie, Future Killer, and The Jesse Lees on select dates.
A ticket request period is open exclusively to members of My Morning Jacket’s One Big Family “Family Pass” program now until Monday, February 10th at 10:00 a.m. ET. Standard and VIP ticket requests will be processed for “Family Pass” holders on February 10th between 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. ahead of a pre-sale for all remaining members of One Big Family on Tuesday, February 11th at 10:00 a.m. local venue time. Local pre-sales start Wednesday, February 12th at 10:00 a.m. local time, followed by Spotify pre-sales on Thursday, February 13th at 10:00 a.m. local. All remaining tickets will go on sale to the general public on Friday, February 14th at 10:00 a.m. local. Click below for a full list of shows and head here for tickets.
MMJ is also gearing up to host its One Big Holiday music vacation on April 3rd–5th at Miramar Beach, FL’s Seascape Resort, where the quintet will perform three unique headline shows alongside an all-star lineup featuring Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Devon Gilfillian, Dinosaur Jr., Karina Rykman, S.G. Goodman, and Futurebirds, with late-night silent jam performances by Karina Rykman, Eggy, and Illiterate Light, plus late-night campfire sets by Tyler Ramsey, Maggie Halfman, and Bendigo Fletcher.
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