Fig & Mint

Poster design by El JefeIn the spirit of "better late than never," I saw my first My Morning Jacket show on Wednesday night, and it was totally awesome.  I'd heard lots of stories and accounts of Jim James fiery stage presence, perfect replication and expansion of their myriad catalog and the exuberant volume and bravado of their rockmanship, so I was wary of my lofty anticipation being fulfilled, but the show was, as I said, super freakin' good.  Rather than rehash all of the the nuances of the performance and my logistical complaints of the DAR Constitution Hall (not the greatest venue), I would defer you to FM Memphis Editor John Miller's account of MMJ in Nashville, which you can read here.  One advantage I do have in this post, however, is one of our favorite contributing photographers was there and came out in spades with awesome pictures of the band.  I've put a few below the setlist, and you can check them all out here.  Thanks Shantel!

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An Evening With My Morning Jacket
2008-09-03 Constitution Hall - Washington, DC       

1. Evil Urges
2. Anytime
3. Off The Record
4. Touch Me I'm Going To Scream Pt.1
5. Two Halves
6. Golden
7. Thank You Too!
8. I'm Amazed
9. The Way That He Sings
10. Sec Walkin
11. War Begun
12. Phone Went West
13. Cobra
14. Librarian
15. Dondante
16. Gideon
17. Lay Low
18. Steam Engine
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19. Wordless Chorus
20. Highly Suspicious
21. Smokin From Shootin
22. Touch Me I'm Going To Scream Pt.2
23. Run Thru
24. One Big Holiday 

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