Listened: Monday May 17
I confess – I don’t actually own any other MMJ records. Every time I do a test listen of their stuff, I can’t seem to get into a whole album of it.
But somewhere I heard Bermuda Highway and I had to have it. Jim James’ voice is beautiful and even though the line “Don’t let your silly dreams fall in-between the crack of the bed and the wall” seems like it’s been purposely crafted to make English majors swoon, I must admit it worked.
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