The Moment With Brian Koppelman

This week on The Moment, Brian Koppelman talks to Jim James, the lead singer and songwriter for the band My Morning Jacket. Brian and Jim talk about the band's latest album, The Waterfall, and the message within many of their songs. Plus, Jim meditates on criticism and its role in the artistic process, how his songs are created over several years in a garden of ideas, and what it feels like, minutes before he steps on the stage, to bring a group of people together around one common cause --- love. Topics mentioned: The Waterfall album "Compound Fracture" by My Morning Jacket Z album "Wordless Chorus" by My Morning Jacket RPM - A non profit organization Bruce Springsteen's Harry Chapin Tribute E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction by David Foster Wallace "I'm Amazed" by My Morning Jacket The New Basement Tapes (w/ Elvis Costello, Marcus Mumford, Rhiannon Giddens, and Taylor Goldsmith) "Blues Run the Game" by Jackson Frank One Big Circle: How My Morning Jacket Rebounded With Its Best Album in a Decade by