Jeff Tweedy yoked the sweetest melody of Wilco’s career to this openhearted song about making peace with the hair-metal dudes he used to mock in his punk-rock youth. It’s the centerpiece of Wilco’s post-alt-country artistic breakthrough Yankee Hotel Foxtrot: a kicky drum groove, some...
Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy is aware that some fans think he made his best album 20 years ago, but he’s most proud of whatever he’s working on now. He’s especially proud of “Ode to Joy,” Wilco’s upcoming 11th album.
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“World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music” Jeff Tweedy— The eternal darling of rock critics turns out to be an awfully good one himself. It would be self-serving, of course, to imagine that Tweedy took any lessons from the reams of rave ...
Jeff Tweedy had to fight hard for this album, with his label and even some of his band – but he knew he was on to something. The dense electronic touches prove an essential part of the picture, as the songs (largely written with the late and brilliant Jay Bennett) wrap up a fracture...
But the album’s hair-raising orchestral ascents and Mellotron-swirled luxuriousness can’t mask the deep distress in Jeff Tweedy’s lyrics—written during a rough patch in his marriage, songs like “She’s a Jar” and “Via Chicago” teeter perilously on the edge of where domestic ...
On Wilco’s thirteenth studio album, “Cousin”, the band embarks on a compelling journey back to their Chicago roots. Recorded painstakingly over two years at the iconic Loft, this album serves as a testament to the enduring brilliance of Jeff Tweedy’s songwriting. With the support of their...
Jeff Tweedy: “Having Been Is No Way to Be’’ Jeff Tweedy has been around long enough to know that any song he releases is a song that he'll have to live with for the rest of his life. So “Having Been Is No Way to Be,” off his memoiristic solo album WARM, sounds like he...
Jeff Tweedy, 'World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music' As any veteran musician will tell you, the music one listens to is equally as important as the music one makes themselves. In his bookWorld Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life...