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Over the past ten years, each album that Tweedy has helped write and produce for Wilco has borne a new sound. From 1996’s pop-drenched Being There to the sleepy front-porch rock of 1999’s Summerteeth, Wilco has expanded their musical diversity, culminating in their masterwork, 2002’s noise-driven Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, which launched their recent brush with mainstream popularity...
...most successful rock-and-roll bands, there comes a point when critical and popular recognition meet head on, and the winding path of ascension begins. As they rise, that path begins to branch out, and some evolve into underground sensations while others morph into undisputed superstars. The trick that Wilco has pulled off over the past few years has been to keep one foot in the grimy dirt and the other on the gold-paved road. Since 1994, the band has been combining their Nashville roots, laden with lap steels and banjos, with a more experimental exploration of the boundaries...
...signature alt-country band of their generation hit Boston last weekend bearing all of their ambiguous fame. Their show the previous night easily filled the 3,600-plus seats at the Wang Theatre, but it’s easy to imagine the homegrown Wilco felt more comfortable here in a packed gym at Brandeis University’s Shapiro Student Center. The venue even evokes Wilco’s humble beginnings, with bleak bare walls and not a chair in sight...
...they’re touring in support of another evolutionary album. On this year’s A Ghost Is Born, Wilco flaunts their range of abilities. While some songs, such as “Wishful Thinking,” resurrect a gentle acoustic aesthetic, others, like “Spiders (Kidsmoke),” expose new layers of Wilco’s now larger instrumental base, showing off the talents of the band’s newest member, electronic specialist Mikael Jorgensen. Both songs comprised the heart of Wilco’s main set, which stuck mainly...
...impressive show of unwavering dedication, each demographic in the crowd could sing along to almost every lyric. It was truly inspiring to watch Wilco so gracefully unify generations of rock-and-roll listeners. The new fans’ heads nodded with approval at every pulse from Pat Sansone’s keyboard in the largely electronic-based “I Am Trying to Break Your Heart.” Later, early loyalists’ eyes lit up when Nels Cline dusted off his classic lap steel for a couple of standards in the first of two encores...