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Coffee Break: Shelf life

My Morning Jacket performing on 'Austin City Limits'
My Morning Jacket performing on 'Austin City Limits'courtesy KLRU-TV/Austin City Limits. Photo by Scott Newton

by Anna Weggel

July 27, 2020

When My Morning Jacket released The Waterfall in 2015, they hinted that they had an entire second album's worth of material also ready for release. Lo and behold, the band announced the surprise release of The Waterfall II this summer.

So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear off of albums that were recorded at least 18 months before their release? Additionally, let's make room for multiple albums recorded in the same session and released at the same time.

Respond with your song ideas in the comments below.

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Songs played

Radiohead - Knives Out
Marvin Gaye - My Last Chance
Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine
The Beatles - Let It Be
Big Thief - Not
Beach House - Space Song
Billy Bragg and Wilco - California Stars