My Morning Jacket Debuts Nostalgic ‘Time Waited’ On ‘Kimmel’
The track is the lead single from the band’s upcoming album, is, due on March 21.
By Scott Bernstein Feb 4, 2025 • 7:34 am PST
My Morning Jacket performed their new single, “Time Waited,” live for the first time on Monday’s episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live. The dreamy song will be featured on the band’s forthcoming studio album, is.
My Morning Jacket – frontman Jim James, bassist Tom Blankenship, guitarist Carl Broemel, drummer Patrick Hallahan and keyboardist Bo Koster – went a different route for their 10th studio album as they recruited Brendan O’Brien to produce the LP. Recorded at L.A.’s Henson Recording Studios, the 10-track follow-up to 2021’s My Morning Jacket arrives on March 21 via ATO Records.
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Jim James constructed “Time Waited” around a sample of riveting piano chords originally featured on pedal-steel guitarist Buddy Emmons’ album, Emmons Guitar Inc. “I made a loop of that piano intro and listened as I went for a walk, and all these melodies started coming to me,” James said. “For a long time, I didn’t have lyrics, but then I had a dream where I was in a café and a song was playing, and the lyrics to that song became the lyrics to ‘Time Waited’ – the melodies just fit perfectly. And the lyrics are about how flexible time is, how we can bend and warp time, especially if we are following our hearts, the universe and time itself can flow to work with us.”
Watch My Morning Jacket performance of “Time Waited” on Jimmy Kimmel Live below:
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