The FTJ blog proudly presents, in association with the one and only johnnYYac, a list of things related to My Morning Jacket!
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A Gift From a Garden to a Flower
A Donovan tribute album
Acoustic Chorale
A limited edition DVD from Okonokos
Acoustic Citsuoca
Live EP from 2003
All Birds Say
Carl Broemel solo album from 2010
All the Best
John Prine tribute album from 2010
Andrew Bird or Bird, Andrew
Known for contributions on Z in the form of strings and whistle on Gideon, Into the Woods and It Beats 4 U.
Appalachian Voices
Yim Yames, Ben Sollee, and Daniel Martin Moore tour to promote awareness of mountaintop removal
At Dawn
The band's second studio album from 2001
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Baby Cookies
See Bo Koster
Bart Koosler
See Bo Koster
Ben Solee or Solee, Ben
Contributions to Circuital, toured with Yim Yames and Daniel Martin Moore
Bo Koster
Keyboardist since 2004, also known as the frosting on top of the cake, Baby Cookies (Twitter), DJ Juice (Twitter), Christopher B. Honey (EU) and Bart Koosler (Z).
Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival
Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival is an annual four day music festival. My Morning Jacket has played at this festival six times, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008 and 2011.
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Carl Broemel or Broemel, Carl
Guitarist since 2004, also known as a beauty, Snowy Bramble (EU) and Kyle Bramble (Z).
Celebracion De La Ciudad Natal
Live EP from 2009
Ch. 1 The Sandwork Cometh
Early Recordings
Ch. 2 Learning
Early Recordings
Christopher B. Honey
See Bo Koster
Chocolate and Ice
EP
Circuital
6th studio album from 2011
Clinton Reno or Reno, Clinton
Poster artist
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Denise
Denise is a stuffed bear that follows My Morning Jacket around, keeping the band company on stage and performing other important tasks.
DJ Juice
See Bo Koster
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Evelyn
Let's just say that Evelyn is not real and that's all that you need to know.
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The interweb
If you are reading this, then you know what the interweb is, however you may not know about books, because since we got the interweb, they hardly get used. You may want to listen to Librarian to further explore this topic.
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Laser Harp
Alternative term to describe an Omnichord, coined by My Morning Jacket forum member el_chode.
Live Music Archive
The Live Music Archive (LMA), part of the Internet Archive, is a collection of over 60,000 concert recordings in lossless audio formats. On July 27, 2004, My Morning Jacket gave their OK for achive.org inclusion.
Louisville
Louisville is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kentucky, it's also the band's hometown.
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Morning Becomes Eclectic
Morning Becomes Eclectic is a radio program broadcast live every weekday from KCRW in Santa Monica, California. My Morning Jacket has performed on Morning Becomes Eclectic six times, sometimes the performance has been recorded on video and sometimes there's just been audio recordings.
The Muppets
Jim James has expressed his love of The Muppet Show and The Muppets in several interviews.
My Morning Jacket
The reason and meaning behind the band name remains somewhat of a mystery, a list of possible explanations can be found here though.
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Live Music Archive
The Live Music Archive (LMA), part of the Internet Archive, is a collection of over 60,000 concert recordings in lossless audio formats. On July 27, 2004, My Morning Jacket gave their OK for achive.org inclusion.
Louisville
Louisville is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kentucky, it's also the band's hometown.
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Morning Becomes Eclectic
Morning Becomes Eclectic is a radio program broadcast live every weekday from KCRW in Santa Monica, California. My Morning Jacket has performed on Morning Becomes Eclectic six times, sometimes the performance has been recorded on video and sometimes there's just been audio recordings.
The Muppets
Jim James has expressed his love of The Muppet Show and The Muppets in several interviews.
My Morning Jacket
The reason and meaning behind the band name remains somewhat of a mystery, a list of possible explanations can be found here though.
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Omnichord
An Omnichord is an electronic musical instrument, introduced in 1981 and manufactured by the Suzuki Musical Instrument Corporation. It typically features a touch plate, and buttons for major, minor, and diminished chords. The most basic method of playing the instrument is to press the chord buttons and swipe the touch plate with a finger or guitar pick in imitation of strumming a stringed instrument. (Also, see Laser Harp)
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Pooch
Pooch is a poncho-wearing stuffed bear that follow My Morning Jacket around, keeping the band company on stage and performing other important tasks.
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Reverb
Reverb is the persistence of sound in a particular space after the original sound is removed. A reverberation, or reverb, is created when a sound is produced in an enclosed space causing a large number of echoes to build up and then slowly decay as the sound is absorbed by the walls and air.
Alternative definition: The bands sixth member, according Tom "Two-Tone Tommy" Blankenship (Z EPK).
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Sam Ericksson
Photographer, director
Ericksson has photographed the band extensively through the years, he also directed 2006 concert movie Okonokos. Other major projects include Still Moving, a collection of his portraits of the band—many shot while filming Okonokos.
The Sound Strike
On June 28 2010 My Morning Jacket joined the Sound Strike, which at the time consisted of a group of musicians taking a stand for civil and human rights in a collective decision to boycott Arizona and to make a call to other artists to Boycott Arizona due to the passage of the law SB1070. Later the strike grew to contain people from other areas of society as well.
The Steam Engine
Music blog, that according to Swedish media (among others) is not only brilliant, but impossible to be without as a MMJ fan.
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The Battle Plan
The battle plan is a very well written and well thought battle plan devised by Two-Tone Thomas also known as Two-Tone Tom, also known as SomeTomGuy, also known as Tom Blankenship, either way, this is a must read.
Twitter
An Omnichord is an electronic musical instrument, introduced in 1981 and manufactured by the Suzuki Musical Instrument Corporation. It typically features a touch plate, and buttons for major, minor, and diminished chords. The most basic method of playing the instrument is to press the chord buttons and swipe the touch plate with a finger or guitar pick in imitation of strumming a stringed instrument. (Also, see Laser Harp)
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Pooch
Pooch is a poncho-wearing stuffed bear that follow My Morning Jacket around, keeping the band company on stage and performing other important tasks.
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Reverb
Reverb is the persistence of sound in a particular space after the original sound is removed. A reverberation, or reverb, is created when a sound is produced in an enclosed space causing a large number of echoes to build up and then slowly decay as the sound is absorbed by the walls and air.
Alternative definition: The bands sixth member, according Tom "Two-Tone Tommy" Blankenship (Z EPK).
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Sam Ericksson
Photographer, director
Ericksson has photographed the band extensively through the years, he also directed 2006 concert movie Okonokos. Other major projects include Still Moving, a collection of his portraits of the band—many shot while filming Okonokos.
The Sound Strike
On June 28 2010 My Morning Jacket joined the Sound Strike, which at the time consisted of a group of musicians taking a stand for civil and human rights in a collective decision to boycott Arizona and to make a call to other artists to Boycott Arizona due to the passage of the law SB1070. Later the strike grew to contain people from other areas of society as well.
The Steam Engine
Music blog, that according to Swedish media (among others) is not only brilliant, but impossible to be without as a MMJ fan.
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The Battle Plan
The battle plan is a very well written and well thought battle plan devised by Two-Tone Thomas also known as Two-Tone Tom, also known as SomeTomGuy, also known as Tom Blankenship, either way, this is a must read.
Twitter is a social networking and microblogging service, My Morning Jacket's official Twitter can be found here.
