My Morning Jacket Debut and Ressurect Old Rarities in Philadelphia and Boston
My Morning Jacket, photo by Stevo Rood
Over the holiday weekend, My Morning Jacket continued their trek up the East Coast with three more performances in the final leg of their 2025 is Tour. The powerhouse roots-rock ensemble’s return to Philadelphia’s Metropolitan Opera House and Boston’s MGM Music Hall at Fenway continued a trend of regular live surprises that made their summer West Coast series so consistently engaging and gave a strong start to their current run on Wednesday.
On Friday, Oct. 10, My Morning Jacket touched down in the City of Brotherly Love for the first show of a two-night return to The Met Philadelphia. The band raced into the staging with “Steam Engine,” drawn from their 2004 studio album It Still Moves, then proceeded into a litany of hits like “It Beats 4 U,” “Circuital,” “Mahgeetah” and the relative rarity “In Its Infancy (The Waterfall),” delivered for only the fourth time this year. At the set’s midpoint, the quintet brought on another uncommon cut with their fourth treatment to date of “Still Thinkin,” from 2020’s The Waterfall II, then pulled into “Half a Lifetime,” the first of four selections from their recent tenth studio album is.
To build momentum into the final push of their set, My Morning Jacket resurrected “Chills,” an uncommon At Dawn track, for its fifth all-time appearance and first since 2010. After closing out the main portion of their performance with “Gideon,” the group returned to the stage for a five-song encore with their third cover of John Prine’s “All the Best” and first since 2013. In their follow-up on Saturday night, the band ornamented a relatively straightahead set with the year’s third rendition of “Climbing the Ladder” from The Waterfall II and their first-ever performance of the It Still Moves B-side “En La Ceremony.”
Yesterday, Oct. 13, My Morning Jacket took the stage at Boston’s MGM Music Hall and launched another engagement with a rocking “Lowdown.” Another hit-lined setlist unfurled with expansive takes on cuts like “The Way He Sings,” “War Begun” and “Holdin On to Black Metal,” building to an unexpected revival of “Beg Decisions” for the first time since 2019. “One Big Holiday” brought the band to a four-track encore of “Library,” “Least Expected” and a segued pairing of “Victory Dance” and “Wordless Chorus.”
My Morning Jacket will perform tonight at Portland, Maine’s State Theatre, then head to New York for three nights at the Brooklyn Paramount–including a special Z 20th anniversary show–from Oct. 16-18. Find tickets and more information at mymorningjacket.com.
