{"id":897925,"date":"2026-10-28T20:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T20:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/897925\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T20:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T20:30:08","slug":"my-morning-jacket-frontman-jim-james-debuts-memoir-one-wonders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/897925\/","title":{"rendered":"My Morning Jacket Frontman Jim James Debuts Memoir &#8216;One Wonders&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The My Morning Jacket frontman will release his debut memoir One Wonders in April with reflections on his musical career and mental health journey<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/jim-james\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jim-james\" data-tag=\"jim-james\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jim James<\/a> has spent the past few years working through decades of memories and experiences in therapy. The My Morning Jacket frontman\u2019s breakthroughs inspired him to write a book, One Wonders, out April 13, 2027. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cPerhaps if I illustrated my journey, and how I began to deal with my own struggles with mental health, it could help people take a step toward getting out of their own darkness and depression,\u201d James said in a statement about the origin on the project. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tOne Wonders will be released in all formats via Simon &amp; Schuster and comes in at 336 pages. James will narrate the audiobook recording. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe memoir will span the musician\u2019s life and career as he reflects \u201con finding my voice \u2014 both as a singer, songwriter and musician, and as a person wandering the earth wondering\u2026 what do I really want to SAY with my life overall?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tRaised in Louisville, Kentucky, the singer-songwriter formed My Morning Jacket in 1998. The band has released nine studio albums together, while James\u2019 solo discography spans five albums. <\/p>\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cAs I reflect on my own musical journey (from first learning to play the guitar to creating music in the present day) and navigating the complexities of life in general, I have been thinking a lot about my elders,\u201d James said in a statement. \u201cFor so many of them, tradition was to never speak about yourself. You carried your victories and failures, your joys and horrors, quietly. A thought kept making its way into my mind: wouldn\u2019t things be lighter for all of us if we shared more with other people?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tHe added, \u201cIf nothing else, I hope the main thing someone takes away from this book (aside from learning more about the joys and challenges of being a working artist and musician) is that it\u2019s okay to ask for help. Everyone is going through some sort of challenge in this crazy world. IT IS POSSIBLE to find your way out of darkness and despair, and begin to enjoy the subtle, beautiful, everyday victories of simply being alive.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The My Morning Jacket frontman will release his debut memoir One Wonders in April with reflections on his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":897926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[223,88,369905],"class_list":["post-897925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-books","tag-entertainment","tag-jim-james"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=897925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/897926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}