A lot of times I will ruin things for myself by going into them with extremely high expectations. From everything I've heard and read about My Morning Jacket's live shows, I was concerned with this also being the case for my first time seeing them live. It honestly took half of a song to understand that it was going to be, for a lack of a better word, special. I've been to my fair share of concerts and as great as most of them were, they all have had a logical place and time where they should end. With MMJ that was not the case. The whole show was on a straight trajectory upwards throughout. They could have played for two more hours and the energy level of the crowd wouldn't have dipped a bit. Jim James owned us.
During the encore while playing Touch Me I'm Going To Scream Pt. 2 it started to drizzle a little bit and across the Ben Franklin Bridge there was an impromptu fireworks show. I'm assuming that it was not planned by the band since Jim James looked at his band mates with an expression that indicated he was as surprised as we were.
I could go on but I'm not a good enough writer to do the show justice. Here's the set list:
1. Anytime
2. Aluminum Park
3. Off The Record
4. Evil Urges
5. Touch Me I'm Going To Scream Pt.1
6. What A Wonderful Man
7. Two Halves
8. Golden
9. Thank You Too!
10. I'm Amazed
11. Evelyn Is Not Real
12. Sec Walkin'
13. War Begun
14. Phone Went West
15. Librarian
16. Dondante
17. Gideon
18. Lay Low
19. Mahgeetah
*****ENCORE*****
20. Wordless Chorus
21. Highly Suspicious
22. Cobra
23. Smokin From Shootin
24. Touch Me I'm Going To Scream Pt.2
25. Run Thru
26. One Big Holiday
