My Morning Jacket recently trekked to Woodstock, N.Y., to record a cover of the Band’s “It Makes No Difference” for a star-studded Band tribute album, due Jan. 9 via Savoy Jazz. The catch: the song was put to tape at the studio of the Band’s drummer, Levon Helm, bringing MMJ’s members face to face with one of their musical idols.
As for My Morning Jacket, the band has just been added to the lineup for next month’s Lollapalooza festival in Chicago and will re-team with Pearl Jam as an opening act for 11 September dates on the latter’s first European tour since 2000.
As previously reported, an MMJ live album and DVD, “Okonokos,” will be separately released in the fall. The double-disc CD is due Sept. 26, while the DVD will arrive Oct. 31 and will also be screened at select U.S. movie theaters. Eschewing the straight-up “film the show” approach, the latter follows a storyline that transports fans to an MMJ show in the middle of a forest.
Source billboard.com.
