lost highway

I stumbled upon a video of them performing "Quiet Amplifier" at this show. It was outstanding. Also a note for gear nerd corner: Jeff appears to be playing his acoustic guitar through overdrive pedals and amps for this song. I'm guessing here, but I'm assuming it would accomplish the goals of keeping that very delicate fingerpicked portion compressed and loud enough to hear amidst tribal drumming and sheets of sound from the other members, and also it allows him to chime in with a more distressed sounding strummed part for the crescendos. https://www.youtube.com/wa

Great interview. Sweet guy. It's pretty unusual to see that level of musical genius hit a point and lose interest. Sounds like he should do a film podcast!

I got cold feet and held out on the full package. I'm listening to the outtakes on the streaming version and it's making me want to get the rest of the story. I was a little disappointed to see photos of the book and see it's largely 'The Wilco Book' design work repackaged, but I still think I might have to pony up for all the LPs. At times the earlier versions have just a little slop to them that makes me feel like it's what it would sound like if Pavement wrote a Wilco song.

Please share your impressions as they form!

Does anyone happen to know what's on the disc for the new AGIB centered issue of Uncut?

Bless your Norse hearts. You folks are truly remarkable. With love from sunny Colorado (highs this week in the mid 50s).

Merci! Excellent work, sir.

What a blast! I'm jealous. Any data heads keeping track of how many different songs they've played in the last week? Also how have they not dusted off Born Alone?

Oh yeah, from what they said about that process they might be one long track that would stretch uninterrupted longer than an LP side.

I only just realized the deluxe edition comes with LPs AND cds. Is there different material on each or did they just decide someone wanted it all on both?

Oh my friends, I have so many thoughts on this. This is my favorite record.... maybe period. First of all, I'm not crazy. My prediction was premature but they came through! Listening to this first song was really cool. I was a little nonplussed, "Another Handshake Drugs, I already have two. Is this just an extended outro that they trimmed for the album version?". But no, this is completely different. You can tell they loved this song and kept trying it until they got it just right. This version sounds like a demo from a really nice studio. It's loose and free and has to

Mine too. Looking unlikely this year.

I was starting to think I'd joined the legions of embarrassingly inept predictors of the future when Jeff chimed in on his Substack about the original form of "Panthers" being brought to mind from recently digging through the archives. We might still see a deluxe edition!

Seriously. Critical discussion is wonderful- people liking and disliking things for interesting reasons without being aggressive or defensive. Hard to come by in the age of hot takes on social media.

Yes. You can hear the difference between material that was written by a singer songwriter and arranged by a band and material that was written by a band. Most of Wilco the sextet's most stirring and memorable instrumental passages (One Sunday Morning, Bird Without a Tail, The Empty Condor, Side With the Seeds) are the product of writing or at least recording as a full band. Tweedy has shown he's capable of leaving spaces for discovery in recording assembly line/ individually tracked material, but there's a magic that only happens when all six of those guys are in Chicago at the same time to cr