Jim James Setlist
Tour Dates
04/27/13 Philadelphia, PA Union Transfer
04/29/13 New York, NY Webster Hall 04/30/13 Washington, DC 9:30 Club 05/02/13 Nashville, TN Cannery Ballroom 05/03/13 Asheville, NC The Orange Peel 05/04/13 Atlanta, GA Masquerade Music 05/06/13 Austin, TX Stubb's Bar-B-Q 05/07/13 Dallas, TX House Of Blues 05/09/13 Denver, CO Ogden Theatre 05/11/13 Los Angeles, CA The Fonda 05/12/13 San Francisco, CA Fillmore 05/14/13 Portland, OR McMenamins Crystal 05/15/13 Seattle, WA The Neptune 05/17/13 Gulf Shores, AL Public Beach 06/19/13 Brooklyn, NY Prospect Park Bandshell 06/20/13 Madison, WI High Noon Saloon 07/13/13 Louisville, KY Louisville Waterfront Read More Jim James Song of the show is Jim James' "State of the Art (A. E. I. O. U)" from his album Regions of Light and Sound of God. I've previously written about James and how he's the singer of My Morning Jacket...…
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After a brief set change (the crescent shaped lighted backdrop that resembled a rising or setting sun stayed), it made transitional sense that Jim James entered to immediately play his new solo album, ‘Regions of Light and Sound of God’(ATO Records/Red) in its stretched-out entirety, almost doubling the 38 min. run time of the album. From the opening song, ‘’State of the Art (A.E.I.O.U.)’, the show tempo was set – a space rock slow beginning, then building the arc with energy to crescendo with James performing a stinging solo on his Flying V guitar. The name of the album comes from Lynd Ward's 1929 novel ‘God's Man‘ and that higher relationship was one of the overlying themes of the evening, James even holding up a golden animal statue up to the crowd several times, as it roared in reverence.
‘Dear One’ started like the album version, only to expand out and deconstruct, with drummer David Givan hammering an impressive drum solo to put an exclamation point on the song.
“Hey open the door, I want a New Life”, James croons on the new single that defines the current solo work vs. that with My Morning Jacket: more spiritual and somewhat less aggressive musically, but a place of comfort and peace.
‘All is Forgiven’ brought a Middle Eastern vibe to the proceedings, James moving to falsetto voice for the ending ‘God’s Love to Deliver’, which unrolled naturally with extended sax solo, his hair flailing everywhere, to end the ‘Light and Sound’ set.
The encore began gently, with a stirring version of MMJ’s ‘Wonderful (The Way I Feel)’ which hushed the audience, then charged into several songs from Monsters of Folk, the all-star collaboration with Conor Oberst, M. Ward, and Mike Mogis, and ‘Changing World’ from the Woody Guthrie-lyric’d New Multitudes project, each of which also fit the spiritual theme of the evening.
Jim James at First Avenue, Minneapolis (04/21/13) |
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