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...Wilco Gets Happy...
...should warn you when I'm not well," sings Jeff Tweedy midway through Sky Blue Sky, the sixth studio album by Wilco, the protean band Tweedy has fronted for a decade. Over the years, Tweedy's brooding lyrics--fueled by battles with anxiety and addiction--have often overshadowed the spare beauty of his songwriting. But Sky Blue Sky is bright and affecting, mixing doses of '70s soul on tracks like Side with Seeds and Hate It Here with the sun-drenched guitar rock of Impossibly Germany and What Light, on which Tweedy advises, "It's alright to be frightened...
...Nonesuch)4/5 StarsAlthough alternative pioneers Wilco have garnered almost as much critical praise for their dynamic concerts as for their genre-bending studio albums, the band’s mid-November release of “Kicking Television” represents the first official effort at documenting their formidable live show.Originally slated as half of a joint CD/DVD release—the DVD was cancelled because singer/song-writer Jeff Tweedy deemed the footage too “claustrophobic”—the double disc album contains 23 songs, mostly culled from the band’s recent studio effort...
...midterms, I still go, hoping that I can be there for That One Show.I’ve already missed said Show on two occasions. First time was 4th of July, 2001. Went to Grant Park in Chi-town, saw Semisonic for free, left. Problem? Semisonic was opening for Wilco, and the show that Tweedy & co. played is now immortalized in musical consciousness as the high point of rock and roll freedom for a band that was in the middle of a war against an evil record label. It’s in a documentary, it was so good...
...Decemberists turned up nothing; searches for Rolling Stones and Spoon gave me one song each (actually, a Dr. Dre remix of a Stones song and a Spoon track from a TV show compilation). I did find more songs when I typed in 10,000 Maniacs, Steely Dan, Eminem and Wilco...