The Dutch Connection - My Morning Jacket

:How does a band from Louisville, Kentucky become famous in the Netherlands before anyone in America knows their name — and how does a burned-down bar, a stripper's robe, and an abandoned grain silo on a soybean farm produce one of the most distinctive vocal sounds in modern rock? That's the My Morning Jacket origin story, and it only gets wilder from there. In this episode, Schecky traces how Jim James went from singing into an empty grain silo for natural reverb to playing four hours in the rain at Bonnaroo — including a set of thirty-five songs where Kirk Hammett of Metallica walked out of the darkness at three in the morning to play guitar with them in front of 80,000 people who refused to leave. We break down why One Big Holiday is the one song every new listener needs, dig into the multiple wildly inconsistent stories behind the band name, and make the case for why NPR's description — "the jam band for people who don't like jam bands" — is both the most accurate and most revealing label ever applied to My Morning Jacket. Subscribe, drop a comment telling us your most memorable MMJ live moment or the first time that grain silo reverb hit you the way it's supposed to, and share this episode with any rock fan who thinks they've already found all the bands worth caring about.