My Morning Jacket Tap Melt’s Veronica Stewart-Frommer for “Golden” in Dillon, Colo.
My Morning Jacket, photo by Silvia Grav
On August 13, My Morning Jacket pulled into Dillon, Colo. for the latest performance in their expansive is Tour. Just over a week into their late-summer leg, the roots rock titans’ return to the road has been an electrifying celebration of their 27-year legacy, with sets spanning the wealth of unforgettable hits they’ve consistently shared since the very beginning. On Wednesday, the band simultaneously celebrated their latest opus and turned back the clock to the classics, all while bolstering their performance with a special-guest sit-in.
Melt, the NY-based rapidly rising indie-jam outift, are currently serving as My Morning Jacket’s tour openers, following a first leg with Grace Cummings and preceding further runs with BALTHVS. To kick off the evening of music at the Dillon Amphitheater, the ascendant group staged a five-track set featuring their recent single “Stay for the High” and “Surrender,” a live debut for a fresh original.
Following the opening act, My Morning Jacket took the stage alongside Melt’s singer Veronica Stewart-Frommer, who lent her powerful vocals to an opening rendition of My Morning Jacket’s 2003 It Still Moves hit “Golden.” Once their special guest had departed from the stage, the headlining act lit up “Run It” before “I Can Hear Your Love,” the show’s first inclusion from their 10th studio album is, which landed in March. In the remainder of the performance, the quintet brought on only four further songs from the project–“Time Waited,” “Beginning From the Ending” and the hard-rocking “River Road”–within a diverse mix of fan favorites from throughout their expansive catalog.
With subsequent tracks like “First Light,” “War Begun,” “Touch Me I’m Going to Scream Pt. 1,” the set-closing “Evil Urges” and an encore of “Compound Fracture” and “Mahgeetah,” My Morning Jacket notably touched on all of their studio albums but 2005’s Z, which the band celebrated earlier this week by announcing a 20th anniversary deluxe edition arriving on on Oct. 3 via ATO. That celebration will continue tonight at Morrison, Colo.’s hallowed Red Rocks Amphitheatre with the first of five special anniversary shows, during which the band will work through that breakthrough project’s full tracklist.
Find tickets and more information on My Morning Jacket’s is tour, set to continue through Nov. 1, at mymorningjacket.com/tour.
