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Album Review

My Morning Jacket: The Waterfall II

Read "The Waterfall II" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette
October 17, 2020

My Morning Jacket's The Waterfall II is a logical step in the progression of this Kentucky band's career. It's a path that's taken a decidedly zig-zag pattern since the debut of The Tennessee Fire (Darla Records, 1999) and its follow-up At Dawn (Darla Records, 2001), arguably reaching its apogee with It Still Moves (ATO Records, 2003). From that point on, through successive records including Z (ATO, 2005), Evil Urges (ATO, 2008) and Circuital (ATO, 2011), as well as the namesake ...

Album Review

Jim James: Eternally Even

Read "Eternally Even" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette
November 5, 2016

With the very announcement of Eternally Even, My Morning Jacket's titular leader Jim James telegraphed the topical nature of his solo album, a somewhat disingenuous gesture to be sure, but ultimately a telling one. The sentiments as voiced in such a sing-song fashion on “Hide in Plain Sight" and “Same Old Lie" sound as superficial as the production and arrangements he's fashioned here with co-producer Blake Mills. The latter is an artist in his own right, but has ...