My Morning Jacket Cancel European Tour Due To Stage Fall Injuries

Jim James' stage fall in Iowa last week has forced My Morning Jacket to cancel their planned European tour. James is still recovering from the injuries he suffered after slipping from the stage during a show in Iowa City, Iowa. "Our hope was to merely postpone the tour," MMJ said in a statement regarding their European jaunt, "but as our scheduling does not allow that to happen in the immediate future, we feel it is best to cancel this tour in hopes of re-scheduling at some point." The tour was scheduled to begin October 29th in Dublin. My Morning Jacket are still scheduled to play a pair of shows December 27 and 28 in Chicago and are booked to play New York's Madison Square Garden on New Year's Eve.

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Song Stories

“Piano Man”

Billy Joel | 1973

Billy Joel’s first hit, “Piano Man,” was – ironically – an autobiographical lament about how his first album wasn’t a hit. When Cold Spring Harbor didn’t take off, Joel briefly became a lounge pianist in Los Angeles, and this song, about that experience, expressed his frustrations and fears at the time: “And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar/And say, ‘Man, what are you doing here?’” “It was all right,” Joel said later, about the gig. “I got free drinks and union scale, which was the first steady money I’d made in a long time.”

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