As it’s a quiet day on the blog, I thought I would post this. I was most interested to note that he shares his work method with Nick Cave. Two of my favourite songwriters, both go to work each day.
Jeff-in’, no Effin’
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This is one of my favourites of his.
Also, I’d like to apologise for the post title – it was a placeholder that I forgot to change. It won’t happen again.
I’ll check it out. I haven’t really kept up with Wilco, but fans might like this extract from his book.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/nov/25/jeff-tweedy-on-songwriting-the-hardest-part-is-getting-started
Been reading the book today – top notch stuff
Finest songwriter on the planet (maybe), I post about Wilco a lot, but Tweedy has now had a 30 year career of extraordinary consistency, and as he gets older he has become more prolific.
If there is a better live band than Wilco then I want to see them! Last gigs i saw remain them in hometown Chicago “Winterfest” last December, great ones to enter lockdown with and hopefully there will be another few in 2021.
He discusses his prolificness [is that a word?] in the article. He puts it down to treating it like a job, set time aside and just make it happen. The results are anything but workaday. Probably one of two or three bands I’d actively want to see live.
I enjoyed that. Been going off Wilco lately, I found the last album a bit so-so maybe I’ll give it a few listens along with ‘Warm/Warmer’ before the new solo album is released.
It is released (sort of). Natural Disaster is an absolute banger. Surprisingly for a lockdown album it is much more upbeat than last 3 albums he made (inc Wilco)
It’s been on rotation at Chateau Wrongness for the last couple of weeks. Contender for Album of the Year.
Talking of which…