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...MORNING JACKET Z For two albums, the most noteworthy thing about My Morning Jacket was its air of cultivated scruffiness; its members looked like Lynyrd Skynyrd Muppet Babies--and played like them. Here they finally shake off their youthful jam-band fascination and write some songs. From the ecstatic atmospherics of Wordless Chorus to the crackling What a Wonderful Man, singer Jim James is expansive without being lazy. If they still pack in an odd, trippy tune about kittens on fire (Into the Woods), it's perhaps because some jam-band habits are harder to break than others...
...underlying messages. The minor characters are superb, including the idiosyncratic corporate executive Phil (Alec Baldwin), Drew’s grieving mother (Susan Sarandon), and his cousin Jesse (Paul Schneider), whose proudest moment was almost being the opening act on the side stage of a music festival that featured Lynyrd Skynyrd.Crowe’s films have always demonstrated an obsession with rock music (not surprisingly, “Elizabethtown”’s soundtrack is spectacular), but here he finds beauty in the raw passion and energy of the music. The lovers’ most enduring moment, coming...
...McGraw recently had a hit with the style-mixing duet Over and Over, Jack White of the White Stripes produced a Grammy-winning album for Loretta Lynn, and the best song currently making its way around the Internet is Sweet Home Country Grammar, a mash-up of Lynyrd Skynyrd's Sweet Home Alabama and Nelly's Country Grammar...
...menacing as a guy and a gun. Mei-Lwun Sweet Home Country Grammar Mash-ups - the marriage of a vocal from one song with the music bed from another - no longer sound so revolutionary as they did when they first conquered the Internet, but the unlikely pairing of Lynyrd Skynyrd's riff and Nelly's spliffs improves both...
Mash-ups--the marriage of a vocal from one song with the music bed from another--no longer sound so revolutionary as they did when they first conquered the Internet, but the unlikely pairing of Lynyrd Skynyrd's riff and Nelly's spliffs improves both. --By Josh Tyrangiel