the My Morning Jacket covers archive :: 70+ covers!
January 11th, 2010 by Matt
Though I was first introduced to them in 2003, it took a long time for me to be bitten by the My Morning Jacket bug. It wasn’t until I saw them at 2008′s Bonnaroo Music Festival that I really understood what all the madness was about. But now that I’m solidly one of the converted, I figured it’d be nice to collect all the covers I could find by My Morning Jacket and keep them in one convenient place.
The vast, vast majority of these are all live recordings of good to great quality. There are a few that don’t sound the best, but they’re worth having anyway. And though they aren’t quite up to Of Montreal numbers (86 covers!), there’s enough here to keep you busy for a while. So I suggest you grab DownThemAll, and download fifty covers of the best rock songs you could ever hope to hear done by one of the best bands still making music.
The My Morning Jacket Covers Archive
MP3: My Morning Jacket – A Quick One (the Who)
MP3: My Morning Jacket – Across 110th St (Bobby Womack)
MP3: My Morning Jacket – All the Best (John Prine)
MP3: My Morning Jacket – Always On My Mind (Willie Nelson)
MP3: My Morning Jacket – Attitude (Misfits)
MP3: My Morning Jacket – Be Here to Love Me (Townes Van Zandt)
MP3: My Morning Jacket – Behind that Locked Door (George Harrison)
MP3: My Morning Jacket – Billy #4 (Bob Dylan)
MP3: My Morning Jacket – Black Sabbath (Black Sabbath)
MP3: My Morning Jacket – Blue Moon (Rodgers)
MP3: My Morning Jacket – Blue Moon Of Kentucky (Bill Monroe)
MP3: My Morning Jacket – The Bottle (Gil Scott-Heron) *new
MP3: My Morning Jacket – Bring It on Home to Me (Sam Cooke)
MP3: My Morning Jacket – Carnival Time (Al Johnson)
MP3: My Morning Jacket – Celebration (Kool and the Gang)
MP3: My Morning Jacket – Cold Sweat (James Brown)
MP3: My Morning Jacket – Dark End of the Street (James Carr)
MP3: My Morning Jacket w/Wilco – Don’t Fear the Reaper (Blue Oyster Cult)
MP3: My Morning Jacket – Dream a Little Dream of Me (Mamas and the Papas)
MP3: My Morning Jacket – Easy (Lionel Ritchie)
MP3: My Morning Jacket – Every Rose Has Its Thorn (Poison)
MP3: My Morning Jacket – Everybody’s Talkin (Harry Nilsson)
MP3: My Morning Jacket – Express Yourself (Charles Wright)
MP3: My Morning Jacket – Fairies Wear Boots (Black Sabbath)
MP3: My Morning Jacket – Get Down On It (Kool and the Gang)
MP3: My Morning Jacket – Girl From the North Country (Bob Dylan)
MP3: My Morning Jacket – Head Held High (Velvet Underground)
MP3: My Morning Jacket – Highway to Hell (AC/DC)
MP3: My Morning Jacket – Hit It and Quit It (Funkadelic)
MP3: My Morning Jacket – Home Sweet Home (Motley Crue)
MP3: My Morning Jacket – Hot Burrito #1 (Flying Burrito Brothers)
MP3: My Morning Jacket – Hot Fun in the Summertime (Sly and the Family Stone)
MP3: My Morning Jacket – Hot Legs (Rod Stewart cover)
MP3: My Morning Jacket – How the Gods Kill (Danzig)
MP3: My Morning Jacket – I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man (Prince)
MP3: My Morning Jacket w/Band of Horses – I’ll Be Home For Christmas (Bing Crosby) *new
MP3: My Morning Jacket – I’m On Fire (Bruce Springsteen)
MP3: My Morning Jacket – I Still Miss Someone (Johnny Cash)
MP3: My Morning Jacket – Islands in the Stream (Parton/Rogers)
MP3: My Morning Jacket – It Makes No Difference (The Band)
MP3: My Morning Jacket – Johnny B Goode (Chuck Berry)
MP3: My Morning Jacket – La Bamba (Ritchie Valens)
MP3: My Morning Jacket – Loving Cup (the Rolling Stones)
MP3: My Morning Jacket – Make It With You (Bread)
MP3: My Morning Jacket – Man In Me (Dylan)
MP3: My Morning Jacket – Mother (Pink Floyd)
MP3: My Morning Jacket – Mother In Law (Ernie K-Doe)
MP3: My Morning Jacket – Move On Up (Curtis Mayfield)
MP3: My Morning Jacket – Move On Up (Curtis Mayfield)
MP3: My Morning Jacket – Never Tear Us Apart (INXS)
MP3: My Morning Jacket – Northern Sky (Nick Drake)
MP3: My Morning Jacket – Oh Holy Night
MP3: My Morning Jacket – Oh! Sweet Nuthin’ (Velvet Underground)
MP3: My Morning Jacket – Older Guys (Flying Burrito Brothers)
MP3: My Morning Jacket – Peaceful Easy Feeling (Eagles)
MP3: My Morning Jacket – Ring of Fire (Johnny Cash)
MP3: My Morning Jacket – Rocket Man (Elton John)
MP3: My Morning Jacket – Rocket Man (Elton John) *Jim solo
MP3: My Morning Jacket – Santa Claus is Back in Town
MP3: My Morning Jacket – Silent Night
MP3: My Morning Jacket – Spanish Pipedream (John Prine)
MP3: My Morning Jacket – Still Feeling Blue (Gram Parsons)
MP3: My Morning Jacket + Neko Case – Stop Draggin My Heart Around (Petty/Nicks)
MP3: My Morning Jacket – Suspicious Minds (Elvis)
MP3: My Morning Jacket – Tequila Sunrise (Eagles cover)
MP3: My Morning Jacket – That’s Alright Mama (Elvis)
MP3: My Morning Jacket – This Magic Moment (the Drifters)
MP3: My Morning Jacket – Time of the Season (the Zombies)
MP3: My Morning Jacket w/Erykah Badu – Twinkle (Erykah Badu)
MP3: My Morning Jacket – Tyrone (Erykah Badu) *Jim solo
MP3: My Morning Jacket – Tyrone (Erykah Badu)
MP3: My Morning Jacket – Tyrone (Erykah Badu)
MP3: My Morning Jacket – Up on Cripple Creek > Blue Moon of Kentucky (the Band / Elvis)
MP3: My Morning Jacket – The Wanderer (Dion)
MP3: My Morning Jacket – Wear Your Love Like Heaven (Donovan)
MP3: My Morning Jacket – Will You Love Me Tomorrow (Carole King)
MP3: My Morning Jacket – You’re a Big Girl Now (Bob Dylan)
MP3: My Morning Jacket – You’re All I Need (Marvin Gaye)
And, of course, if you’ve got any covers I’m missing, please shoot me an email or drop me a line in the comments!
Thanks to Dylan, Cody, Yitzchak and David for their help!
tim // Jan 11, 2010 at 11:38 am
When Jim was in Month of Sundays they used to cover Never tear us apart and it was good… the best was his cover of freaks of the industry!
Cooper // Jan 11, 2010 at 11:52 am
Only thing missing is Tonight I’ll Be Staying Here With You by Bob Dylan.
Matt // Jan 11, 2010 at 11:57 am
If you guys have any MP3s I’m missing, please drop me an email!
JWW // Jan 11, 2010 at 5:49 pm
Careless Whisper by Wham and All Night Long by Lionel Ritchie – Both performed 12/31/06 at the SF Fillmore
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Natalie Gelman // Jan 11, 2010 at 8:30 pm
That’s a lot of cover songs and great cover songs at that!
Hanan // Jan 11, 2010 at 8:59 pm
you are insane and amazing. cheers to you.
Joey // Jan 11, 2010 at 10:23 pm
That cover of Oh! Sweet Nuthin’ is so incredible.
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brian // Jan 12, 2010 at 6:26 am
They played a killer cover of Charles Wright’s “Express Yourself” on New Year’s Eve last year at MSG. It’s an easy find on the internet. (I tried to email it, but I think I exceeded a file limit on your server or something,) There’s also a version of “It Makes No Difference” with Eddie Vedder floating around that’s pretty sweet.
Michael Wo // Jan 12, 2010 at 10:52 am
They had a CD of early demos come out around 2003 that included a really weird version of Berlin’s “Take My Breath Away.” I can’t remember if there were other covers on that album.
Matt // Jan 12, 2010 at 11:43 am
Oops! Yeah, I had a full inbox this morning. If you wanted to give it another go, Brian, I’d appreciate it. Otherwise I think someone else said they were going to try to send me a ZIP file with a few covers I’m missing, including that one.
Gilded Palace // Jan 12, 2010 at 2:48 pm
Great work pulling these together -and thanks for the heads-up on DownloadThemAll (just what I’ve been looking for). One omission I noticed: Lead Me Father (Johnny Cash) – from the extra disc that came with initial copies of At Dawn. Wish I had the disc that came with Tennessee Fire too – anyone care to trade…?
Didn’t they do Celebration (Kool & The Gang?) at some point too? To be honest, I can leave that one off my ‘want list’ ;-) : “…one of the best bands still making music”; no doubt, but I’m gagging to hear some new MMJ material. MoF and Harrison covers feel like treading water for these guys.
Ted // Jan 12, 2010 at 4:00 pm
It’s been so long since I’ve seen them live, but this just reminded me of how they truly are the best live band I’ve ever seen.
Tom // Jan 12, 2010 at 4:22 pm
Matt – I just sent you an MP3 of MMJ Kool & The Gang cover “Get DOwn On It” from 2008 Roo – also included HomeSweetHome, but looksl like that was included already. Nice work!
Beeg // Jan 12, 2010 at 4:23 pm
Here’s a boot of their New Years Eve show at MSG. They covered 10 songs that night, some of which you are missing.
Matt // Jan 12, 2010 at 4:35 pm
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This is a great list, def mentioning on my music blog, for new music check it out: http://www.harmondrive.com
Thanks!
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jason // Jan 13, 2010 at 1:25 pm
Sweet list, I have heard a hilarious MMJ version of “Wonderful Tonight” by Clapton. I got it from a Podcast on Itunes. He changes the lyrics around, it’s quite funny. Thanks for the compilation!
orion // Jan 13, 2010 at 1:29 pm
MMJ does a cover of “Take My Breath Away” by Berlin, popularized by the movie Top Gun. I don’t have it, though.
melissa // Jan 13, 2010 at 3:25 pm
Thanks for posting this. It’s really freaking awesome and totally rocking my Wednesday!!!
Danielle Collins // Jan 13, 2010 at 5:03 pm
I was sold to MMJ three years ago at The Ryman..and was so lucky to see them at Bonnaroo 2008 and MSG New Years. So good to see people who love them as much!
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The MusicFile // Jan 14, 2010 at 11:04 am
Friggin unbelievable. I know how long it takes to pull one of these together.You rock. We’re gonna link to this today!
NB004182 // Jan 14, 2010 at 12:31 pm
What about Rainbow Connection? I think it was done at Lollapalooza in 2007
Mike // Jan 16, 2010 at 11:48 am
They also did Oh What a Night (December 1963) by Frankie Valli. Available on a few shows at archive.org
JoeG // Jan 16, 2010 at 11:32 pm
Great post. Along with “Take My Breath Away” (which I have somewhere) the list also is missing “West End Girls,” and I believe I DO know where that it. I will try to E-mail you the one (and maybe both) tomorrow. Thanks for putting this together. Fun stuff.
JoeG // Jan 16, 2010 at 11:33 pm
Oh yeah, and “White Rabbit” too
Matt // Jan 17, 2010 at 2:55 am
Whoa. I’d love to hear “White Rabbit” (and the others, obviously). Definitely send those over if you get a chance!
Thanks!
bart // Jan 18, 2010 at 3:10 pm
They have done Sabbath’s War Pigs, Van Halen’s Jump, and at least one Clash tune.
k.h. // Jan 19, 2010 at 1:58 am
I was converted during 2008′s Bonnaroo as well… Glad to hear someone fell in love with them the same time I did!
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Fully // Jan 30, 2010 at 11:04 am
Thank you so much for putting these together. You’re awesome!
Tom // Jan 30, 2010 at 11:52 am
What a great collection of songs. Thanks for this archive. I love the diversity in this selection of songs. Most bands have a handful of covers. My Morning Jacket has over 50. That tells you what kind of musicians they are.
Shannon // Feb 7, 2010 at 1:42 pm
Awesome compilation! Thanks for your efforts man!!
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Scott // Apr 28, 2010 at 12:51 pm
Wow! Thanks for the listing. I’m looking forward to checking these out. For the record, Blue Moon of Kentucky is by Bill Monroe, not Elvis.
john // May 4, 2010 at 1:11 pm
Great List!! Going to Alcapulco! Probably there is a copyright issue though.
Victor // May 5, 2010 at 11:01 pm
Great list, Matt! I fell for MMJ in 2005, the first time I saw them live–they just bring the goods.
Zachus // May 18, 2010 at 10:16 pm
This is awesome, so many good songs that i never knew they did, thanks awesome website!