My Morning Jacket moved on to the majors while staying on the farm for the emotional echo of this spacey southern sprawl. After building their reputation with two albums on independent Darla Records, the band signed with RCA subsidiary According to Our Records (ATO Records) to record 'It Still Moves'. The album features Jim James on vocals, guitars, and artwork; Johnny Quaid on guitars, vocals, and artwork; Tom Blankenship on bass; Danny Cash on keyboards, artwork, graphic design, and layout design; and Patrick Hallahan replacing J.Glenn on drums.
Jim James produced the sessions at Above the Cadillac Studios at Quaid's grandparents' farm in Shelbyville, Kentucky. James explains: "We live in a different world than the world that my favorite records were made in. For us to make records that I think sound good, we need to create our own world...That whole garage we turn into a giant reverb chamber for the drums. Pull all the cars out and mic it up. There are also a couple of silos out back, and we turn those into old-fashioned reverb chambers — put a speaker in the bottom and throw a microphone up top... We ran some Ethernet cable out to the silo — it was the cheapest, because we had to run 600 feet of cable out there." The result meant that they could easily send everything — from a single snare hit to the entire album — out to the silo for reverb treatment and back to the mixing board...We're five dudes in a van; we can't always convey everything live. We have to look at [performance] in a different sense — you're trapped in a van all day, spending nights in different hotel rooms, so by the time we get on stage, we don't hold anything back. A record is going to last forever. We try to think about it and add everything that we want to hear forever — whether we're here for 20 more years or two more days."
'It Still Moves' made it to number one hundred and twenty one on the US billboard 200 album chart, sixty two in the UK, fifty four in Sweden, and number two on the US billboard heatseekers chart.
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"One Big Holiday" – 5:21
"Dancefloors" – 5:38
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXh7BrishrQ
"Easy Morning Rebel" – 5:09
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zy8KeqSML0k
"Rollin' Back" – 7:50
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0Bl3K9mGKg
"One in the Same" – 6:23
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKJOFsKs82I
full album:
All songs written and composed by Jim James.
1. "Mahgeetah" 5:56
2. "Dancefloors" 5:38
3. "Golden" 4:39
4. "Master Plan" 5:05
5. "One Big Holiday" 5:21
6. "I Will Sing You Songs" 9:18
7. "Easy Morning Rebel" 5:09
8. "Run Thru" 5:45
9. "Rollin Back" 7:50
10. "Just One Thing" 3:13
11. "Steam Engine" 7:26
12. "One in the Same" 6:23
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