Jim James

A new album from My Morning Jacket frontman and composer Teddy Abrams. 

Composer Philip Glass and My Morning Jacket frontman Jim James conduct a short interview via Twitter. 

We're celebrating summer music here at the Takeaway. Throughout the month we’ll be talking with different musicians about what songs say summer to them. Our guest today is Jim James, the lead singer and founding member of the band, My Morning Jacket. The band's latest album is called “Circuital.”

On their sixth studio album, the band My Morning Jacket is bringing it all back home. Recorded in their hometown of Louisville, Ky., “Circuital” is full of the spacey Southern rock on which the group built its reputation. Frontman and chief songwriter Jim James stops by to tell us about the new album --and why moving forward sometimes means circling back.