Question: What's going on with the new My Morning Jacket record?(Courier-Journal, July 2010)
Jim James: We're trying to do it all live. Even the vocals. You know, the traditional Motown style of just literally playing the song over and over and over again until you get a take when everybody felt the spirit. The first two records for us were building blocks, where you lay down the drums, lay down the bass, build a wall of vocals over it. Starting with “It Still Moves,” we've always tried to build the core tracks live and then overdub vocals.
When you make a record, you want to make something that's going to be satisfying every time you listen to it — so there's a certain amount of perfectionism. We're trying to go for a certain amount of (perfectionism), but at the same time, you get a take that has the spirit in it, that still has a couple of mistakes, that's better.
Courier-Journal interview (2010)
On July 25 The Courier-Journal asked Jim James a question about the upcoming record.
