Binding: LP Record
EAN: 0708527008911
Label: Darla Records
Manufacturer: Darla Records
Number Of Discs: 2
Publisher: Darla Records
Release Date: 2008-06-10
Studio: Darla Records

Gatefold double vinyl re-press limited to 1000. 142 gm, green and blue color vinyl 2xLP in gatefold sleeve with matte finish. Their sound is hauntingly classic Americana that, at times, you'll swear is coming from a veteran Country singer you've heard, but can't quite identify. You'll think it's George Jones, Glen Campbell or some '70s Johnny Cash record missing from your mental archive rather than some fresh group of young bucks. My Morning Jacket combines classic Country elements with the melancholy vibes of Harvest and After the Gold Rush era Neil Young, Pet Sounds era Beach Boys, and the immortal vocal stylings of The Righteous Brothers. These boys sing harmony like nobody's business. My Morning Jacket don't know much about the "indie" world and of what they do know, they couldn't care less. When we first queried James about Louisville music history he lit up, "Slint 7/8s timing bullshit. I'm talking about writing a fuckin' song!". The Eagles and Simon and Garfunkel were who James claimed were in heavy rotation and absorption at his residence. The closest they come in comparison to the modern guitar sound is with the languid, pre-slow-core aural heroin of On Fire era Galaxie 500. MY MORNING JACKET are not another interesting but pretentious, posturing, or campy alt-country derivation. There ain't nothin' trendy about 'em. They're the real deal. Darla.

Customer Rating:
Summary: sneaks up on you and stays forever
Comment: It took me awhile to get into this album. I'm not sure just how many times I listened to it before its brilliance fully emerged, but I do know that these songs feel like a part of myself that someone else is singing. Whether or not the average listener experiences a similar resonance, the authenticity of these humbly beautiful songs is bound to strike a cord. Hands down- My Morning Jacket's best album!

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Spirited if unexceptional majority of songs
Comment: Heck of a debut from these sincere alt-country emos. Before they began tweaking their now successful multi-pop prowess, MMJ came out of nowhere with this raw, at times hard hitting introduction into rough acoustics, jangly reverb, and of course excellent vocals. Although the mixing leaves much to be desired, a humble and sincere power behind even the simplest of ballads makes some of the lackluster material shine brighter, although few if any songs predict their up and coming songwriting evolution ala "The Bear" as a strong opening gives way to lees distinctive fare.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Buy This Now! You won't be sorry.
Comment: Classic MMJ, with the oringinal line-up including Danny Cash and Johnny Quaid. Also J Glenn on drums.'TTN' and 'At Dawn' are both amazing but between the two this one's my favorite of their original early recordings (w/ the old guys). Every song on this album is Beautiful in it's own way. I'm in love with the world this album takes me to.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: My Morning Jacket
Comment: This is a great album that rivals "At Dawn" as one of their best pieces of work. Early MMJ albums are a true treasure to own and listen to again and again. The haunting reverb and the amazing song writing ability of Jim James gives this album 5 stars without a doubt. The "lo fi" approach to this album was part of the magic that make this one of the best albums Jim and the gang have done. This is an album you can play all the way through and enjoy every track, I hold this album in high regard and would recommend this to anyone with good taste in music.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Listen, Listen, Listen, Listen, Listen, until you feel it.
Comment: I was somewhat late into the world of My Morning Jacket unfortunately, and Tennessee Fire was the last album that I listened to from them. I started to fall in love with their other albums first and thought of Tennessee Fire as a decent first album, or a "good start," and when "Z" came out I loved that album as well. I finally started listening to Tennessee Fire a bit more while the other albums were gaining even more of my affection. It kept building, and building, and building, eventually "At Dawn" became the greatest thing I had ever heard, and "It Still Moves" and "Z" started to reveal their layers to me as well, and all this time, poor little "Tennessee Fire" sat there, lonely and cold, waiting for me to sit down with it and get to know it as deeply as their other albums, begging to me to give it the same shake I had given all of their other albums, trying to convince me it was more than just an okay first effort, but instead a beginning to the chain of the greatest and most soulfull music ever to be laid upon the once def ears of this world.

Finally, I felt sympathy, and after brief listens here and there, withouth my full attention, I lay there on my couch, with nothing but silence, and put on this album, with no distractions. Wait, wait, it's clicking, yes, yes, third track in and I'm starting to realize the power of "They Ran" finally, and "The Bear" strikes me even more than before. Every song now, clicking, sinking in; I'm getting it, "Nashville to Kentucky" means more to me now, I can feel the meaning, yes, "Evelyn Is Not Real" is one of the greatest songs I've ever heard, on and on, I start to understand that the production ISN'T WEAK, it's calculated and intense and relevant to the style Jim James had invisioned for this haunting album. HIS VOCALS ARE EVERYWHERE, I'm not even high or tripping, and I feel like I'm freaking out by the intensity of the album; this album is arguably as powerful as anything they have done. By the latter parts of the album, there is no let-down at all. Possibly, the two or three most affecting songs are at the end; "By My Car, "Butch Cassidy," and "I Think I'm Going to Hell," and also the end track, which is instrumental, all are part of a cumulation that leaves you feeling emotional in so many levels, asking yourself how that was possible to capture on any type of recording device.

I listen to this album, among others from MMJ, and wonder to myself at times if it's even real; is anyone else hearing what I'm hearing? I want to SCREAM ALOUD to people, repeatedly, "CAN YOU HEAR THE SOUL THAT I HEAR?" If so, we should all be out on the streets screaming, howling, crying, hugging each other, revealing our newly found souls to the world, freeing our souls from the cage they have dwelled in, rejoicing in a celebratory victory dance while their music plays from the skies from a sound system echoing and drifting from galaxies far, far away.

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