Celebración de la Ciudad Natal

Cover of Celebración de la Ciudad Natal

On Record Store Day, April 18 2009 My Morning Jacket released eight song EP Celebración de la Ciudad Natal. The EP is made out of two live recordings, one at indie music store Ear-X-Tacy and one at the band's Waterfront Park concert, both in the bands hometown of Louisville, Kentucky.

 Tracklist
  1. Evil Urges - 6:01
  2. Highly Suspicious - 3:13
  3. Ear X-tacy speech
  4. Gideon - 4:04
  5. Where To Begin 3:58
  6. Librarian - 4:31
  7. Phone Went West 8:59
  8. Dondante - 14:31

Exclusive video for the Celebración De La Ciudad Natal EP release
In a statement about the release the band wrote:
Now more than ever we all need to take the time to celebrate what our favorite local record stores and businesses mean to us – the value of community/human to human, non- internet related physical and spiritual contact and supporting the hardworking people in your community who strive everyday to keep it unique and keep it local. We are fortunate in our travels to get to see many wonderful things, but one of the most distressing things is the increasing “normalization” of the world and how all these places are starting to look the same. Everywhere you look more and more towns are starting to be filled with the same gigantic corporations and while some of these huge companies undoubtably provide valuable services, it is so important that we realize that it is our local businesses and people (and natural landscapes, but thats a different letter) that are what make different towns worth coming to. Things you can only get in one place, made and sold by people who believe in what they are doing. People who are trying to keep good weirdness alive in this crazy dome. god* bless all of you, and god* bless the world and all that kinda shit.
- yer pals, my morning jacket p.s.- *the word “god*” is used here meaning anything you want it to mean and is a trademark of globo-chem worldwide.