My Morning Jacket releases picture disc for charity

Nothing draws interior decor together like pictures of hairy space-rockers.

My Morning Jacket has put out a vinyl picture disc called a "2006-2007 New Year's Eve Skit Picture Disc Skit." Basically, you only need to know two things about it:

1.) Proceeds benefit the Sweet Home New Orleans Organization, which works to preserve the Big Easy's heady musical tradition by keeping artists in town.

2.) It features the guys in Oregon Trail attire (see above).

The photos of the band were taken at their New Year's Eve show at the Fillmore in San Francisco, which found them doing their Manifest Destiny thing for adoring fans. Included in the vinyl picture disc are skits from the show, and some incidental intro/outro music.

Hitch up your wagon and make trails for MyMorningJacket.com to pick up a copy.

Amazingly enough, you can hear the whole New Year's Eve performance at Archive.org, as it was recorded for Sirius Radio. How's that for a Morning soundtrack?

Related links:
My Morning Jacket on MySpace
Paste: My Morning Jacket - On The Bus and Off The Record
VinylUnderground.net: A brief history of the picture disc

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