My Morning Jacket’s Kentucky Homecoming (and SNL Debut)
Written by Mike Greenhaus
Monday, 14 April 2008
My Morning Jacket will play a special hometown show on
The Great Lawn at Kentucky’s Louisville Waterfront Park on August 16.
The hard-touring group will spend most of the summer on the road in
support of their fifth studio album Evil Urges, including stops
at Bonnaroo, Radio City Music Hall and Whistler, BC’s Pemberton
Festival. Though MMJ traditionally plays Louisville around
Thanksgiving, last November the group skipped its annual hometown show
to work on Evil Urges. The quintet has also confirmed a new
round of international dates, bringing the band to Toronto (6/16),
Montreal (6/17), Sheffield (6/25), Bristol (6/16), Manchester (6/27),
Glastonbury, UK (6/29), Hamburg (7/1),Koln , Germany (7/2), Werchter,
Belgium (7/4), Kent, UK (7/6), Amsterdam (7/8), Paris (7/9),
Nottingham, UK (7/11), Glasgow, Scotland (7/13), London (7/15) and
Benicassim, Spain (7/19). In addition, My Morning Jacket will make its Saturday Night Live debut on May 10. Look for an extended feature on My Morning Jacket in the June issue of Relix.