im not the girl that wants to hang with the band. i dont want to meet them or know them or for that matter-have them know me. i like the idea of keeping that separate...like in the old days. when rock stars were rock stars. when you saw them live - or thier picture in a magazine and that was all. but now our access to information is limitless...so...we know things...we know where these boys are from and where there live...they have wives who write blogs and we see 2,394,830,284 pictures of them plastered all over the internet (including this one) so even if you want to avoid them...you cant.
i will say the one good thing in reading about them is finding out what they listen to. i live in new york city...i have an ipod-a computer-and an ipod dock. i get my new music information from the itunes genius sidebar and magazine articles. its helpful to hear the peoples whose music you like-likes...because chances are you might have some in common...once a jim james interview led me to john callahan...who i find to be dry and funny and flat out lovable.
my morning jacket seems to have taken a slight detour from thier earliest influences (neil young and other fellow rockers)...i think this growth is a beautiful thing...we are an ever-evolving-constantly-changing society and we should embrace when people that make music we love begin to be influenced by the music they love...or have just begun to love. i am excited that mmj is starting to feel-or should i say-express the energy of soul music...covering songs like-move on up and bring it on home to me will only make me grow as a fan...as i do...so much...love soul music...i mean...if i were notes on a page...i would want to be the notes of sam cooke.
we keep reading about globalization and the world becoming flat...i feel like jim james is just helping to grow this idea...i mean are we really all that different...when you break things down...arent we all just trying to find our way?
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