Music

My Morning Jacket’s Acoustic Album ‘Peacelands’ Channels Hope, History, and Humanity for a Vital Cause

Mar 22, 2026

My Morning Jacket have released ‘Peacelands,’ a 14-track acoustic album available now on Bandcamp, with all proceeds benefiting the ACLU, Doctors Without Borders, and the International Rescue Committee. This is a band putting their music directly in service of something larger than itself, and the result is one of the most quietly powerful releases in their catalog.

Recorded by six-time Grammy Award-winner Shawn Everett at EastWest Studios’ famed Studio Three in Hollywood, the album strips everything back to its core. Stripped-down versions of My Morning Jacket and Jim James solo favorites sit alongside covers of Bob Dylan’s “Blowin’ In The Wind,” Brian Wilson’s “Love and Mercy,” The Velvet Underground’s “I Found A Reason,” and Woody Guthrie and Jim James’ “Changing World.” The selections feel deliberate and deeply felt, each one earning its place.

Jim James drew the album’s title from Louisville artist Mark Anthony Mulligan’s concept of an imaginary land built on peace, friendship, and equality. “I think about this word Peacelands in our world all of the time, especially in troubled times,” James says. “We believe that it’s still possible for us to achieve Mark’s vision, a world of love and friendship, if only we can learn to listen, love, and forgive.” The statement lands with real weight, and the music delivers on every word of it.

‘Peacelands’ is acoustic music with genuine emotional stakes, warm, unhurried, and rooted in a tradition of songs that have always meant something. Fourteen tracks that ask the right questions at exactly the right moment.

‘Peacelands’ Track Listing: