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Classic Album Review: My Morning Jacket | Acoustic Citsuoca

The southern indie-rockers deliver the goods on these low-wattage live recordings.

This came out in 2004 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):

 


When you hear a great studio album — like, say, My Morning Jacket’s It Still Moves — it’s only natural to wonder if the band behind it are just as good live.

Well, once you hear MMJ’s palindromically titled live EP Acoustic Citsuoca, you’ll wonder no longer. These five low-wattage cuts of southern-man melancholy and haunted regret make it clear that Neil Youngish singer-songwriter Jim James and co. can deliver the goods anywhere and anytime — including a private Halloween party in a tiny club in Braintree, Mass. The only downside: At 25 minutes, this party is over way too early.