In this exclusive clip from My Morning Jacket's forthcoming appearance on VH1's Storytellers, frontman Jim James explains how his grandmother's concern about the band playing a lot of bars in the early days of their career inspired "Golden," a lovely folk rock ballad from their 2003 album It Still Moves. The band's full performance on Storytellers will premiere on Friday, June 3rd at 11p.m. on VH1. Rolling Stone will be premiering a song from each new episode of Storytellers this season, so keep a look out for new clips from Cee Lo Green, Kings of Leon, Death Cab For Cutie and more. » read more

By Brian Hiatt
March 3, 2011 7:40 AM ET As My Morning Jacket prepared to record "Holdin' on to Black Metal," the wildest track on their new album, Circuital (out this spring), frontman Jim James set the scene for his bandmates: "'I want it to sound like we're Cuban or Cambodian kids, and we're wearing berets and we're walking through an alley and we stumble upon this band, and it explodes into this crazy sing-along,'" keyboardist Bo Koster recalls with a laugh. The rest of the band had no idea what James was talking about but launched into the song anyway — the loose, funky first take is on the album. "This is the most live record we've ever done," says James. » read more