{"id":5496,"date":"2011-07-18T19:57:27","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T19:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=5496"},"modified":"2011-07-19T03:13:11","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T03:13:11","slug":"my-morning-jacket-on-storytellers-carl-broemel-as-mvp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2011-07\/my-morning-jacket-on-storytellers-carl-broemel-as-mvp\/","title":{"rendered":"My Morning Jacket on Storytellers–Carl Broemel for MVP of MMJ"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saturday night we found ourselves with the necessary flu to safely justify a classic couch-flop, remote-control-driven, DVR extravaganza.\u00a0 And so we went straight to VH1’s recent Storytellers<\/strong> episode featuring My Morning Jacket<\/strong>.\u00a0 Simply put this is amongst a handful of the best musical performances ever captured on television.\u00a0 Jim James <\/strong>(reluctantly) provides the narrative backdrop to the songs and comes off as an intelligent and gifted soul (especially touching is when he briefly loses it while introducing Dondante<\/strong><\/em>).\u00a0 And of course his vocals scintillate throughout.<\/p>\n

But what really captivates during the episode (and what had been somewhat lost in the sound-mix at their recent Santa Barbara Bowl show) is the mesmerizing, multi-instrumental playing of Carl Broemel. <\/strong>Broemel is that rare musical breed who is poly-proficient and yet plays sparely and soul-piercingly.\u00a0\u00a0 Check out Carl’s pedal steel playing on Golden<\/strong><\/em> below (the music begins at 3:45), and on Moving Away <\/strong><\/em>and Wonderful <\/strong><\/em>(elsewhere at Storytellers<\/strong><\/a>), his lead guitar thr0ughout (but in particular on Dondante<\/strong><\/em> and One Big Holiday<\/strong><\/em>),<\/strong><\/em> and his sax playing on Dondante. <\/strong><\/em>And the other members also provide perfect support.\u00a0 Flu or not, the episode is highly recommended.\u00a0 By the end of the viewing we were virtually healed.<\/p>\n

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Saturday night we found ourselves with the necessary flu to safely justify a classic couch-flop, remote-control-driven, DVR extravaganza.\u00a0 And so we went straight to VH1’s recent Storytellers episode featuring My Morning Jacket.\u00a0 Simply put this is amongst a handful of the best musical performances ever captured on television.\u00a0 Jim James (reluctantly) provides the narrative backdrop […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t