Wilco (the band) didn’t preview any songs off Wilco (the album) when it played at Jazz Fest a couple months before the CD’s release. But from Jeff Tweedy’s porkchop banter to the band’s amp-jumping antics and the bare-chested cowbell guy, the Fair Grounds set captured the goofy spirit of “Wilco (the song),” the album’s opening [...]
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Intensity or Surprise
October 1, 2007 – 12:01 am
Wilco’s latest album Sky Blue Sky is one of the most subtle recordings in the group’s history, a surprise to some after the more overt experimentalism of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and A Ghost Is Born, and even more of a surprise to those who expected a radicalized Wilco now that guitarist Nels Cline is on [...]
