Searching For The Young Soul Rebels [VINYL]

i'm tom blankenship and we're my morning jacket. i'm jim james. i'm patrick callahan. hi i'm patrick. hi i'm carl. and this is 'what's in your bag?' got these that i released. 'jim jam gems' i put these out last fall and i just want to kind of promote...

promote my product. so these are really great, i already know those. one of the most underrated albums of all time, james 'laid.' which people unfortunately remember because of the single, 'laid' which is a good song but it's kind of annoying but the whole rest of the album is just a mind-blower and i've always wanted it on vinyl blood orange, 'coastal grooves' i was looking for the newest record and i couldn't find it

so i thought i'd picked this one up keith jarrett, 'facing you' it's a solo piano improvisation. he's kind of my hero. he was the reason why i started to get into improvising and stuff like that i just think he's the greatest improviser alive, maybe to ever live. it's not what he plays, it's how he plays it and he's still around, he's really prolific gotta see him.

yeah, man, seeing him live is like a spiritual experience but don't make any noise because he'll stop the concert i came in looking for '36 chambers' i couldn't find that, it is on order, but i did find a record store day release and i'm particularly infatuated with method man right now and this has method man's song on it, four different versions and, in relation to that, i'm also infatuated with the method man/redman album i love his approach to rhythm, the way that he rhymes

and the sound of his voice it's real raspy, and he just has a great way with words jim bought a barney kessel guitar so i started listening to barney kessel, because we were like, 'who's barney kessel?' 'soul rebels,' bob marley. jim kind of hipped me to this jim gave me this long playlist of bob marley stuff a lot of old, kind of rare stuff i'd never heard before and a couple of the songs are on this record, so i thought i'd get it it's like air, water, and food. it's that essential. those songs.

yeah. and look at this album cover. the sexy soul rebel. it's bad ass. yeah it's cool. young mc, 'stone cold rhymin' one of the greatest records. classic. i mean, i can't imagine any other record that i listened to in middle school that i still listen to on a monthly basis sturgill simpson. kentucky proud.

i've heard a couple songs on this and i really liked it a lot the production on that record's really cool. it's like country music with indie rocker... i don't know what kind of production you would call it but...creative production. yeah i like now he sings about turtles ripping your intestines out. that's the selling point, really. i went ahead and got two classics, c'mon. so that's my hip hop section. man, you need to have me over.

yeah? well, you'd have to ask nicely. so thelonious monk, when he's just by himself at the piano is so insane it's sort of beginners jazz for me, because i don't really know too much about jazz but when i listen to him just play by himself i could just listen to it over and over again. you can kind of hear him grunting and stuff when he's playing. so awesome. this new alabama shakes record is unbelievable i couldn't believe how unbelievable it was. i really couldn't believe how great it was.

i also got the alabama shakes record. nice. man, what a killer record, so exciting to have peers of your own, people you know making great music that you want to listen to. as musicians, we always go back, i think, to get inspired, y'know it's rare that we get excited about a new band, and we're so proud of them that they made such a great record, it sounds so good it's just so creative i think it's 10 times more creative than the last one

and just the song construction is so cool, there's some elements that you're just like... and her voice has matured so much. she's really learning to sing subtly. it's unique. it's fresh. 'pink moon' by nick drake. what a great record. it's amazing that he went so kind of under the radar for so long y'know until that volkswagen commercial, then everybody was like, 'oh my god, who is this guy?' we were listening to his mom's record. molly drake. have you ever heard that record? that record is unbelievable. i would've bought it if i didn't already have it.

i have public enemy, 'it takes a nation of millions to hold us back.' my friend tim, who i already referenced, who fell asleep during metallica there was one whole summer between 8th grade and starting high school that we listened to this record and another one back to back and we would play super street fighter 2 turbo, for super nintendo and we just stayed in his room and ate frozen pizza y'know, microwave pizza, and listened to these two records it's a lot of good memories. and the other record was ice cube, 'amerikkka's most wanted'

then i got some skip james. i haven't listened to any delta blues in a while i've been reading about the mississippi flood in 1927 so i thought i should have a soundtrack for that i'm glad we're not trying to top one another so i got this nina simone 'nuff said' this is twice that jim has been mentioned in this but he played this for me. it's a song called 'why?' and in parentheses: (the king of love is dead) she wrote it right after she found out that martin luther king was assassinated. it just knocks your knees out. it's so emotional.

sonny boy williamson. i've always kind of had a blues protest i mean, i know the blues is an essential part of music but i get tired of everyone talking about the blues all the time but i feel like i'm having my sonny boy moment more gregory isaacs. apparently this is his classic. he's basically the reggae crooner. if you wanna fall in love and smoke weed and lay in bed all day on a sunday, put on gregory isaacs sounds good.

everly brothers. i realized i don't own any everly brothers on vinyl. what can you say about the everly brothers? kentucky's finest. i didn't know this existed until today, this is john fahey's christmas album. i mean, how many times can you listen to the elvis christmas album before everybody goes insane? i've been collecting 78s for a few years now try to give them a good home, because a lot of people just kind of chuck 'em to the side and i came across the original soundtrack of the wizard of oz there's just something about judy garland's voice

did you go to the smithsonian when we did that tour? no, i didn't get to go. we had a friend who worked at the smithsonian and they had all the costumes in a drawer so we're seeing the scarecrow costume in the drawer, and the ruby slippers wow. it's terrifying. it's just so weird. i heard one of these songs at a restaurant, and i shazam'd it. i've heard a lot about him and i've heard this record's amazing.

so i'm looking forward to that. he and madlib are like the coltrane and miles davis of that genre. of sampling? yeah. and then another classic, 'the soft bulletin,' that i don't have on vinyl the first time i heard this record my brain exploded. game changer. unbelievable. one of the greatest parts about joining my morning jacket back in the day was just

being exposed to music that i hadn't really been exposed to for whatever reason and this was one of those records. last but not least, i've wanted the... again, i've got all of this on mp3 but just have been wanting to get the vinyl for awhile can't beat fela. i don't know what i do without his music, it's so powerful. i think he did a lot of great stuff for the world that's the end of my bag. i have one more: dj jazzy jeff and the fresh prince megamix sampler

nice. 'summertime's on there? that's the reason i bought it. i now realize that it has 'parents just don't understand' too, so... and then, megamix...i don't even know what these other songs are is that a mix that megaman did? i believe so, yeah. i think it's the megaman soundtrack.

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