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...same way, the subtle twang of the banjo is linked inextricably to the idea of Wilco. To be sure, the banjo isn’t featured on all of Wilco’s tracks, but it remains their most distinctive feature, and the cornerstone of their unique no-depression, “alt-country” timbre. And when multi-instrumentalist/technician Jay Bennet (i.e. the banjo guy) left Wilco earlier this year, so too did the all-defining Wilco gimmick. Bennet left behind a deflated effigy of a band, an artifact which in its present incarnation is almost unrecognizable...
Adding insult to injury, sound levels were badly regulated—Hammond organ, an essential Wilco ingredient, was almost inaudible; the bass guitar was muddled and overpowering, and, more generally, instrumental separation was poor. Bennet’s replacement, Leroy Bach, seemed overly conservative in his supplemental instrumentation and Tweedy lacked his characteristic attack on the guitar. All of these things notwithstanding, renderings of “A Shot in the Arm” and “She’s a Jar” were surprisingly good (though, again, organ layers were uncharacteristically weak) and new drummer Glen...
...Cracker's oeuvre since 1993 has capitalized on the marginal staying power granted any band who left the garage of gold for the barn, like Wilco or the Counting Crows, and much of Garage d'Or has hints of country in its sound. The music gets janglier and vocalist David Lowery sounds more like a has-been. The new material is actually pretty good; but instead of being genius and entertaining, it's merely "haunting." Garage d'Or preserves the good songs from their horny days; the rest is only patly interesting. B -Benjamin E. Lytal
...Only if there is a strong faculty sentiment against the proposal and they want to vote it down, will there be any action," Edward T. Wilco, secretary of the CEP, said yesterday. "This will be the first time most of the faculty will have heard the pass-fail proposal officially. We want to let them discuss it in their departments before asking for a vote. The sense of the Faculty may be that pass-fail is OK as long as it doesn't count...
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