MY MORNING JACKET Sets Spring Shows with Presevation Hall Jazz Band

MUSIC NEWS - For the first time in almost a year Indie rockers MY MORNING JACKET announced a return to the road for a short run of spring dates with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band opening.  The rock five piece start up in Birmingham, AL on April 20 and continue with shows in eight cities through the Southeast USA. The current itineray (below) ends on May 2 in Columbus, OH.

MMJ's Jim James worked with PHJB in 2009  at New Orleans' legendary Preservation Hall, recording two tracks for the band's upcoming release, "Preservation: An Album to Benefit Preservation Hall & The Preservation Hall Music Outreach Program" (order below) which is due to be released on February 12.  James recently said;

"When I got the invitation to go to the legendary Preservation Hall--where so much of the music we now know and love on this earth found its early roots--I did not waste a minute," James explained in a press release. "Getting to sing while the guys played with such glorious bursts of sound--all live in that holy room with the ghosts and garbage trucks crankin' along--was an experience I'll never forget."

My Morning Jacket recently released their "Live at the Palms" digital EP(thru via iTunes). The set highlights the previously unreleased "Dear Wife" and the rarely performed "Tonight I Want to Celebrate With You," which originally was on the group's debut in 1999, "The Tennessee Fire".  More recently, MMJ released 2008's "Evil Urges", a full-length studio release

MY MORNING JACKET Spring 2010 Tour Itinerary-

April
20 - Birmingham, AL - Alabama Theater
21 - Nashville, TN - Municipal Auditorium
23 - Atlanta, GA - Chastain Park Amphitheatre
24 - New Orleans, LA - New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
27 - St. Augustine, FL - St. Augustine Amphitheater
28 - Charleston, SC - Family Circle
30 - Raleigh, NC - Koka Booth

May 2010
1 - Columbia, MD - Merriweather Post Pavilion
2 - Columbus, OH - Lifestyle Communities Pavilion

Comments

[MattKlomp]

Wow... really sad there are no Chicago dates for this. Can't wait to hear the Preservation Hall benefit compilation. So many amazing musicians and for a really great cause as well.