The Tennessee Fire

Jim James is a native Kentuckian who rose to prominence as the vocalist and creative force behind the celebrated rock group My Morning Jacket.

The Jacket, as they are affectionately called by their fans, released their debut album, The Tennessee Fire, in 1999 and took the country by storm with their legendary live show.

Since then, they've released a slew of critically acclaimed albums that regularly chart inside the Billboard's top 10.

The group has recorded for Capitol, RCA, ATO, and V2 Records.

Well, it's a funny juxtaposition because we were raised on hair metal and Nirvana, you know, and so we're like inspired to rock like that.

You know, we're inspired to thrash and headbang and jump around and all this stuff.

And it was hilarious because like the first place that ever... loved the band was over in holland and belgium and they loved our first record the tennessee fire which is very spaced out very slow lots of reverb you know there's some rock and roll on there or whatever but they liked that record and they brought us over there and we're like playing like we're a death metal band or something you know we're like and there are so many people that came up to me after the show and they're like i like the album i do not like the live performance i did I do not like the live show.

It's just in this funny kind of Dutch way of just being brutally honest.