Jim James & M. Ward at St. David's Church

[sidnomis1]

damn, he so smooth!

[jfighterpilot]

hooray for beautiful music!

[jordanHmitchell]

thank you both, so very much

[AAAAAAAAAAAARRON]

can someone make a video on how to play the first song...please

[maouba]

Can anyone post a tablature of this song? None of the ones available are right. He's clearly playing in D-droped but I can't figure out the chords.

[runthejonathon]

@kincaidj1 Jim James' song at the end is called Bermuda Highway and it's off My Morning Jacket's album At Dawn.

[kincaidj1]

can someone give the name of the jim james cut at the end plz? thx, hope everyone's having a nice weekend. unfuckingreal.

[jotto3391]

1 person blacked out in pleasure and hit their head on the mouse, inconveniently hovering over the dislike button

[betoski]

love this song. M.Ward's my main man! lol <3

[danalcantaramusic]

@deadheadfan71 It's the lack of a guitar pick that makes it possible.

[wholewheatbagel]

two monsters of folk.

[pconrz]

black & white footage

[datsyhoehoe]

All of his acoustic guitars are" draughtnoght "design, and Gibsons. they have the "big" tones that you hear in his music.

[MarcoEsquand0las]

you're like a roller coaster - you give me heavy metal dreams

[LennyWeen]

for Matt's guitar, it looks like the size of a D-45 but I can't make out the name on the head.

I mean it could be customs, but then I highly doubt he would play something like that... Gibson? Gretsch? I really don't know.

[sugarkang]

@LennyWeen M. Ward is playing a  Gibson Southern Jumbo. It's the rich man's version of a J-45

[longliveu]

those are three good questions.

[FolkMusicFolk]

what kind of acustic guitar dose M.Ward use? i love its sound!

[Carlvskansas]

wow this chinese translation is such a lovely version, its not all lofi and shit like on letterman.

[surfer390111]

Anybody know this song?

[guitarguy351]

the first one is roller coaster and the second one is chinese translation

[doublethink]

why are you douches talking about m. ward and hendrix in the same sentence? just stop. seriously. stop.

[soundtheology]

Yeah! Totally!! Hendrix was soooo much sloppier!

[PrettyLoather]

shut up

[judenschnitzel]

A musical experience is always (subjectively) honest. M ward is just speaking to a lot of people and they're all agreeing.

[slytown]

Exactly. There are a lot of "honest" musicians out there. They just aren't as easily accessible as a Metallica or a Green Day. Matt is pretty well known though, so obviously a lot of people care for professional musicians rather than commercial ones that simply are selling a product. :)

[slytown]

Revolutionary gets thrown around a lot. I wouldn't say he's revolutionary. He definitely has distinguished himself though.

Honestly, I don't think Hendrix was that impressve technically, but he rather changed how the guitar was played. M. Ward's fingerpicking isn't necessarily extravagant either, he just uses a different style. I've been playing a lot of M.Ward lately and its more that he gets a different tone with D6/9 tuning, which he adopted from Fahey. I just love the way it sounds.

[YeggmanX]

The last song Jim sings is called Bermuda Highway, it's from the second MMJ album, "At Dawn".

[coreywaters45]

whats the very last song jim james sings??

[watkinscopicat]

class!

[betoski]

really love this song...love M. Ward! 80)

[jebber5]

very nice. smooth.

[ludvik199t]

you're right 1:15 soo cutie !

[eviljunglist808]

Give the guy time.I see he needs to uses a tuner to tune his guitar....

[krolnick]

You're kidding right? Have you ever played a live show? You don't want to sit there using harmonics to get the tuning just right. It's much faster to use a tuner. That's hardly something to criticize. I think it shows confidence that he can stop and move back into it. I guarantee by the end nobody was thinking about such a minor incident.

The strings were probably new and weren't stretched out enough.

[blindflacker]

Waiting for genius that never comes. I wonder if he'll ever achieve his potential or just be content with the scraps he feeds us.

[cambethell]

man i want to go to one of his shows!

[transmitsignal]

i would go ahead and say m. ward is my favorite current songwritter. He has been for at least the last 5 or 6 years. I listen to a lot of music, but i always come back to him. Jim is amazing too, but for me he doesnt hit the spot like matt. I'll resort to violence to defend him. So...bring it on haters!!! you wanna meet somewhere??!

[alapseinreason]

This video is intoxicating, forget Johnson, and satriani, listen to the video and take it for what it is.

"I played an escapade just like you"

[rdb8800]

Any ideas where this video came from? It seems like a pretty professional taping. Was there a DVD made of this show?

[wprosenthal]

the thing about M. Ward is that he uses the guitar to make the most beautiful music. he may not be as technically as impressive as, say, joe satriani, but the actual music being made is so much better than most virtuosos' boring shred-heavy instrumental records.

[moonandantarctica2]

one more thing RE1206 - Robert Johnson was playing way better and more complicated 'finger picking' guitar 70-odd years ago :)

[moonandantarctica2]

cop out.heaps of guitar players tune by ear live, not to mention hes playing in an environment where it would be quick and easy to tune by ear, but whatever - you think hes some revolutionary guitar wizard so you've obviously got no idea. also he doesnt kill the signal - and furthermore no self-respecting guitar player (including myself) would kill the signal and tune their guitar blind relying on a machine. and to provide an example for all of these points - ladies and gentlemen Mr Jimi Hendrix

[moonandantarctica2]

not to mention he doesnt even tune his guitar by ear, he looks down at a tuner (right?)

[samuelshepard]

sorry bud but he's just fingerpicking.

[savagerabbit]

If he's in an open tuning then it's even less impressive. It may not be simple but it's not something the average guitar player couldn't tackle with some effort.

[savagerabbit]

Fingerpicking..?

[visionize]

oh man!

[TheRadioStarKiller]

The term "musical gods," while chronically overused only applies to Jim James. I saw M. Ward at the Pitchfork Festival in Chicago, and while he does play the guitar soulfully, he does not compare to James when it comes to engaging the crowd in his performance. That said, this is a phenomenal duet and you'd be hard pressed to find anything played as musically in the rock n' roll genre.

[yuppy64]

M. Ward has no thumbs and two extra fingers, I have normal fingers and screwed up joints in my thumbs, somehow though I don't get that hateful jealousy and just want to hear more of the man.

That version of Chinese Translation was moving for a moment.

[tombunt]

adam carroll is a great texas artist, definitely worthy of listening to.

[tfowl]

Two musical gods.

[nightgeorgiegirl]

This is great - thanks!

[toodrunktodream]

this is so sweet, saw it on aquariumdrunkard , and found it here.

[andeechamberlain]

Great video, its like being there again...by far the best SXSW show!

[theavalonproject]

Awesome video, thanks man!