![]() They feel it so deeply, in fact, that the lighthearted “Lucky to Be Alive” is basically an advertisement for getting back on the road, albeit with a tinge of streaming-era irony: “They cut off all the bread that used to keep us fed/So thanks for coming to the show,” James offers with a smiling shrug. i Guitar chords for Hopefully by My Morning Jacket, a psychedelic rock band formed in 1998 from Kentucky, USA. It’s their biggest hit (so far) and it’s the one they use as a closer most often, including on their three night run through Chicago earlier this month. The tightly coiled “Penny For Your Thoughts” and the KISS-tinged “Complex” seem uniquely designed to reach way back into the depths of huge outdoor crowds and make a connection. One Big Holiday ( It Still Moves, 2003) One Big Holiday is the banger, the one My Morning Jacket song that even non-fans have heard before. While there isn’t a ton here that forwards their narrative, the sense of being in a studio blasting away right as shows and festivals begin to open again is palpable. Hopefully - lyrics I wont ask you where youre goin I wont ask you where you been I know that just now I aint been showin Hopefully it occurs to me that. My Morning Jacket, their first album of new material since 2015’s The Waterfall (and their follow-up to last year’s archival stopgap The Waterfall II), finds the band very much in their comfort-rock comfort zone. In recent years, main man Jim James has largely been focusing on solo work, chasing various whims on records like 2016’s politically-tinged Eternally Even, 2018’s loose scuzz-guitar party Uniform Distortion, and 2019’s The Order of Nature, a set done in collaboration with the Louisville Orchestra. ![]() They’ve got a way of filtering realist anxiety into their ambitious trippiness, droning as much they’ve jammed, while working every available nuance out of a sound that flips history’s narrative by simultaneously imagining Radiohead as choogling pastoralists and the Allman Brothers as self-aware indie-rock kids. ![]() My Morning Jacket have always made classic rock seem relevant in our day and age, because the Kentucky boys never fooled themselves into thinking that human existence collapsed into oblivion the day Skynyrd’s plane went down. ![]()
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