Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - Chicago Theater - 2007-09-29

This I am particularly excited about. It seems like every time I go to a show and get the recording it always sucks; shitty quality, shitty crowd, shitty everything. Not this time though, it is soundboard. I gave up on this show being posted but fuck me, this is a gift. This was definitely the best Ryan Adams show I have ever seen. Every time I have seen it has been good or great, never fucking amazing like this was.

A week prior I was in St. Louis with 3 buddies and my sister. Well as we were walking into the show I spotted Cardinals guitarist Neal Casal and I thought that was awesome (and it was) . Well, my buddy Scott grabs me after the show and we hit the Casino Queen (yes the Wilco Casino Queen). Meanwhile Tim, Matt and my sister are behind the venue hanging out with Ryan Adams for half an hour. I was almost sick right there on that fucking boat when I found out(the Casino Queen is a boat).

Back to Chicago though. Ryan was kind of in a questionable time. I love everything he does but some of the live jamming he was doing was not really exciting me too much. After this show I walked out, looked at Matt and told him that "I believe again." It was corny and a half joke but it really made me remember what an absolutely stunning musician he really is.

Was anybody in attendance?

Disc I
01. Magnolia Mountain
02. Dear Chicago
03. Beautiful Sorta
04. Goodnight Rose
05. The Rescue Blues
06. The Sun Also Sets
07. When The Stars Go Blue
08. Two
09. Let It Ride
10. Wild Flowers
11. Peaceful Valley
12. Nightbirds
13. Please Do Not Let Me Go
14. Off Broadway
15. Cold Roses

Disc II
Solo Set:
1. SYLVIA PLATH
2. Call Me On Your Way Back Home
3. Sweet Lil' Gal (23rd/1st)
4. Why Do They Leave?
5. Brown Sugar
Band Return:
6. Dear John (cut - most)
7. Freeway To The Canyon
Encore:
8. Goodnight, Hollywood Blvd.

Download - Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - Chicago Theater - 2007-09-29 - via The Archive

MMJ - Bonnaroo 2004-06-12

This was my first exposure to My Morning Jacket. No, I was not there, it was 2 years after the show took place that my friend Tim from St. Louis showed me a Bonnaroo documentary with some performances from MMJ. I was down there with a couple of buddies selling this piece of shit 1992 Toyota Tercel that had a major dent on every panel (I got $1000 bucks for it though). Anyways, the documentary switched between Jim James playing Golden solo and the whole band raging through Steam Engine in the pouring rain. The logo for this site is a picture of the end of the Steam Engine from this show, Jim James, front and center, offering his guitar to the Gods. It is a really amazing site. This version Cobra is really great, I wish they played that more often these days. Jim James right after At Dawn - "THIS IS RETURN TO THUNDERDOME!"

For a ton pictures from the show head over to The Jackets website here.

Download the show via the Archive here.

Kings of Leon - Crawl

Kings of Leon new song Crawl from there forthecoming album Only By The Night due out September 23rd.

Download - KofL - Crawl

What do you guys want to see?

What do you guys want to see more of? I will be getting the new site up hopefully soon (crazy busy) and I want to know what you guys think should be added or posted or whatever. Your opinion matters to me, shoot me an email or leave a comment! Thanks!

2001-05-09 - Ryan Adams at The Y Theatre

Sorry for not posting any new material lately. School and work have been a bitch lately and I have the new site coming up. School is over in 3 weeks, I cannot fucking wait.

Here is a great old Ryan show, I love what this man does with a guitar and his voice. He plays My Love For You Is Real from last years EP Follow The Lights. Very beautiful stuff. Enjoy this show courtesy of the Archives.

Download - 2001-05-09 - Ryan Adams at The Y Theatre

Disc One
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1. Dance All Night
2. To Be Young (Is To Be Sad, Is To Be High)
3. My Love Is Real
4. Sweet Little Gal
5. Funny How I'm Losing You
6. Oh My Sweet Carolina
7. Dreams Of A Working Class Clown
8. Chat
9. My Winding Wheel
10. Don't Ask For The Water
11. Baby, I'm A Fool For You


Disc Two
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1. Chat
2. He Knows My Name
3. Call Me On Your Way Back Home
4. Young Winds (I'll See Ya)
5. Wonderwall
6. Come Pick Me Up
7. AMY
8. Everythings' Alright
9. Damn Sam (I Love A Woman That Rains)
10. Dear Chicago

www.thesteamengine.net

I just bought this domain and I will be making the changes in the next day or so. I apologize for any problems that may occur but once it is all straightened out I will have some good live shows, new music and an interview for you guys! Thanks.

Hey You Mr. You Tube DJ...

Our friend Linda Park (see side bar for links) has done a pretty cool segment with Jim James and another one with Two Tone Tommy (Tom Blankenship) of My Morning Jacket. It is called Hey You Mr. YouTube DJ .

They can be found here:

Hey You Mr. YouTube DJ - Jim James
Hey You Mr. YouTube DJ - Two Tone Tommy

Jim James writing songs for next record...

No clue how I missed this...

http://www.nme.com/news/my-morning-jacket/37943

Jim and Carl - 2008.05.16 - Desmet Amsterdam, The Netherlands

This is a treat. I snagged this over at MMJ forums at least a week ago and just got around to listening to it today. Thank you Kory for chopping it up and making the album art with CC Baxter's truly awesome picture.

I have not gotten all the way through it yet but like it so much that I thought I would share it right away. Man this is a beautiful acoustic set and a definite must have.

**LINK UPDATED 2010-1-13**

Download - Jim and Carl - 2008.05.16 - Desmet Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Thank You Linda Park

I just would like to say thanks to Linda Park for all of her amazing pictures of our boys at Bonnaroo. Every picture I posted of them at Bonnaroo and the album cover I made for the show was taken by her.

Check out her blog at Velocity Weekly and her Flickr page, she takes some really incredible shots.

Jeff Tweedy & Jay Bennett - 1999-07-25

This is a hidden gem of a recording. Jeff Tweedy and the even uglier Jay Bennett playing together back when Wilco was not huge. Check out the Blood of the Lamb, I love that song.

1. Introduction
2. James Alley Blues
3. She's a Jar
4. New Madrid
5. Blood of the Lamb
6. Down in the Willow Garden
7. Auld Triangle
8. Another Man's Done Gone
9. Hesitating Beauty
10. Via Chicago
11. Sugar Baby
12. I Got You
13. Forget the Flowers
14. I'm Always in Love
15. The Lonely One
16. Summerteeth
17. Pecan Pie
18. True Love Will Find You in the End
19. Casino Queen
20. Encore Break
21. California Stars
22. Hoodoo Voodoo

Download - Jeff Tweedy & Jay Bennett - 1999-07-25 (Updated 2008-3-30)

MMJ - Evil Urges Acoustic Project V.1 Re-Up...Failed

I tried re-upping the Evil Urges Acoustic Project but within 10 seconds of it uploading it was taken down for violating the rules.

"The file you requested was removed for violating MediaFire's Terms of Service or Acceptable Use Policy"

Sorry Chelsea!

MMJ - Bonnaroo 2008 XM SOURCE

Photo Credit: Linda Park

This is the full show, no missing tracks. Sorry it took this long to get this up, happy birthday America.

cd #1 Set 1:
Evil Urges
Off the Record
Gideon
Hot Fun(Sly & the Family Stone) with Jeff Coffin on saxophone and the Nashville/Louisville Horns
Highly Suspicious
What a Wonderful Man
I'm Amazed
Thank You Too
Touch Me Pt 1
Sec Walkin
Golden
Two Halves
Laylow
Hit it and Quit it(Funkadelic)
Tyrone(Erykah Badu)

cd # 2 Set 1 cont...
Steam Engine
Anytime
Aluminum Park
Easy Morning Rebel with Jeff Coffin and the Nashville/Louisville Horns
Dancefloors with Jeff Coffin and the Nashville/Louisville Horns
One Big Holiday featuring Kirk Hammett of Metallica
Set 2:Cold Sweat with Jeff Coffin and the Nashville/Louisville Horns
Get Down On It(Kool and the Gang) with Jeff Coffin and the Nashville/Louisville Horns
Across 110th Street(Bobby Womack & Peace) with Jeff Coffin and the Nashville/Louisville Horns
Wordless Chorus
Phone Went West

cd # 3
Mahgeetah
Oh Sweet Nuthin(Velvet Underground)
Librarian
Bermuda Highway
Dondante
Run Thru
Smokin from Shootin
Touch Me Pt 2
Home Sweet Home(Mötley Crüe) featuring Zach Galifianakis as Annie

**LINK UPDATED 2010-3-9**

Download - MMJ - Bonnaroo 2008 XM SOURCE

My Morning Jacket Videos

Here are a slew of MMJ videos from over the years. The good people on the official MMJ message board posted these, thank them. In this batch we have them on Conan performing Touch Me Pt. II, Anytime and On Big Holiday (Conan's expression at the end is awesome). There is also a Conan skit that aired the same day as Touch Me Pt. II. The AOL Sessions spawned a pretty cool interview with the man himself, Jim James and drum roll please...The famed Documentary from the Netherlands - This Is NOT America. All of them but the OBH are in a zipped file via Megaupload.

Download - MMJ Videos

**UPDATED 2010-5-25**
Download - MMJ Conan OBH

MMJ - Lebowski Fest 2004-06-18

Here is one from the archives (both metaphorically and literally). Our boys raging through Lebowski Fest back in '04. It Beats For You makes an early appearence and during Just One Thing the intro music is turned up and plays longer then intended and you hear Jim jokingly mid song say "Hey Ryan! Turn the intro music off!" (I looked into it, Rayn is now serving "borsh" in Siberia). Hearing How Do You Know is great as well. It is nice to reach back a bit and listen to some older stuff, especially considering how big they are these days. I was at Borders today and I pulled down 5 magazines with MMJ on the cover or somewhere on the cover. Sometimes it feels like At Dawn and It Still Moves get overlooked by people, including myself, when these are the albums that made me fall in love with them in the first place(CHECK OUT THE NEW POLE). At Dawn is quite possibly my favorite fall time album ever (tough decision though, Harvest, Animals, Cold Roses and Summerteeth all rank very high, WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITES?) Anyways, here is another great show.

Disc 1

01 lebowski intro
02 the man in me
03 golden
04 just one thing
05 it beats for you
06 lowdown
07 the way that he sings
08 how do you know
09 strangulation
10 one big holiday >
11 i will sing you songs

Disc 2

01 o is the one that is real
02 cobra $
03 dancefloors $
04 mahgeetah
05 at dawn
06 steam engine
07 run thru

Download - MMJ - Lebowski Fest 2004-06-18