My Morning Jacket
September 18, 2004
Bank of America Stage -- Zilker Park
Austin City Limits Festival
Austin TX

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01 intro
02 One Big Holiday
03 Lowdown
04 How Could I Know?
05 It Beats 4 U
06 The Way That He Sings
07 Cobra
08 Mahgeetah
09 Run Thru

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from http://www.austin360.com/xl/content/xl/acl2004/acl2004saturdayacts.html

My Morning Jacket
(Saturday, 6 p.m., Bank of America Stage)

An indie band from a low-profile city like Louisville gets a major-label contract and puts out a career-making record. Pretty clear what it does at a big-time rockfest, right? Start off with a barn-burning anthem, work the major-label record, throw in a few old faves to reward the hardcore fans and close down with another barn-burning anthem.

Well, two out of four ain't bad. My Morning Jacket opened its afternoon set with the epic "One Big Holiday" and closed with the Quicksilver Messenger Service-worthy guitar freakout "Run Thru." But unless my ears deceived me — and this band's murky catalogue often does deceive me — it only played one other song off the latest record: "Mahgeetah," which came right before the set-ender. The rest of the time, the band played less familiar and less over-the-top material, squandering the not inconsiderable momentum it built right away with "Holiday."

The band certainly looked rocking enough. Leader Jim James came dressed in a brown blazer, white T-shirt and hair — lots of hair. At times, with his scruffy mane blowing across his face, he looked like Venus on the Half Shell on a bad hair day. And Patrick Hallahan has down the "stupid drummer" look that Aerosmith's Joey Kramer perfected so many years ago.

But the set featured a lot of slow, dirge-y numbers, some acoustic stuff and one genuinely odd song that featured no guitars (surely an MMJ first) and spotlighted synthetic drums (some of them programmed?) that suggested James has been listening to Trio's "Da Da Da" lately.

It was, in truth, a gutsy set to play for an outdoor festival crowd that came to rock out. Even so, the fans showed their love for MMJ, even if that love was tested pretty hard. Wonder if the execs at RCA are quite so indulgent.

— Jeff Salamon