lost highway

As Ecuador, and the Northern parts of our continent produce more, we're also expanding wind and solar. At some point our middle-East oil imports are going to slide across a tipping point and cease to matter all that much.

Looking at that mp3 site makes it seem like the TWEEDY album will be under a similar deal with ANTI records as the last Wilco record.

Yeah, that's a bad one. The important thing to note at this point, is there aren't any reports yet about who actually did the kidnapping. I wouldn't second guess a strong Israeli military response to anything, but at this point I don't know who they'd be responding to.

Well, that's a sad way of looking at things. I do know there are plenty of weeks in August and September where none of these various side projects and solo acts are performing. Maybe they'll be regathering for recording.

Tweedy made some comments a while before the Whole Love came out, that they'd lost interest in debuting songs before they come out on a record. Apparently they got a live groove going with some of the SBS stuff that they felt they couldn't capture with the same energy in the studio after kicking the songs around live.

Meanwhile, there could very well be new album progress going on behind the scenes in the weeks between side-project outings this year.

For the record, I always enjoy when people recount the gig. Not just the setlist, but the moments that made it an interesting experience.

Dude, Pat could pin some adorable shit.

Our nation is definitely responsible for their current circumstances. This might be a bit of a cliche, and an overused piece of rhetoric, but perhaps militarily what ISIS needs is a scalpel approach as apposed to thousands of boots on the ground. A series of covert op's, an opportunistic drone strike, some Navy Seals. But I don't really know.

So if you're advocating for round 2, what would we do this time? What will work that we forgot to do before? Spend more money? Sacrifice more American lives? More Iraqi civilian casualties? We caused a problem with war. Then we try to use war to fix it.

I was already psyched about that movie. Linklater has been mentioning the project in interviews over the last several years. I think it totally plays to his strengths: just a little sentimental, but also philosophical. Great pairing here, and one of the better new solo songs.

Huge upgrade by the Autumn Defense on that one.

I disagree with half of that, I think The Whole Love benefits hugely from Nels' inimitable style. But I also think that when Tweedy has to step up as a lead guitarist he brings something very unique and human to the six strings. Nels and O'Rourke have been quoted saying as much about Jeff's guitar playing. When we listen to the record we'll hear Jeff on lead. He's the only guitar player (bass player, keyboardist?) on there.

I've gone out on a limb here to state that I'm not particularly devoted to the current extent of my 2nd amendment rights, and that I'd be willing to limit them severely in exchange for the mere probability of reducing some homicides, but I recognize that there is something more than access to firearms going on in this country. I think what's hard is identifying that "thing" before even attempting to treat it. It's not the cheap scapegoats of violent music or video games, it's not some lack of religion. It's something more nebulous, but still cultural. All I can detect is it has somethin

You're right, but the catch is this is a socio-political judgement, not a personal-psychological judgement. It's not particularly important if I personally have a hypocritical stance of support the troops while not doing anything to help them except rally for pointless wars. What is important is the conversational consensus at large. The way the issue is presented, talked about, and understood at a glance. I think our symbology- the shared mythology around the topic- can be deterministic.

It's hard not to conclude that the pomp/circumstance, hawk rhetoric in this country comes with a lack of authentic caring for the people who served, or the legitimacy of the pentagon's call to action. I wasn't trying to make you feel bad. The greater half of the last century of U.S. foreign policy is littered with military entanglements that were not initiated in good faith and left foreign lands as well as U.S. soldiers in ruins. There comes a point where we need to start talking about more than taking our hats off. At some point people will get wise to the fact that pundits and politicia

We have made countless swaps to get our soldiers back in the last several military quagmires we have gotten ourselves into. This one got controversial because it is close to election season, Obama stamped his name on it, and Berghdal is a Muslim, or at least a Muslim sympathizer who grew disillusioned with a very nasty and pointless war. As far as I'm concerned the bed wetters on this one are just spewing party-line rhetoric conjured to excite the base. The most interesting thing here though is the fallout right after Memorial Day. How many damn baseball games did these folks take their h

Yeah, it kind of makes sense that he's playing acoustic all the time at this point. Other than the drums, all of the instruments on the record were played by Jeff, so he really could approach the band interpretations of what they recorded from whichever instrument and teach everyone else the parts from the record. The acoustic is probably the simplest way for him to hold down the chord progressions, follow the blueprint of the new songs, and focus on singing. I wouldn't be shocked if an electric guitar comes out more as the tour goes on. Meanwhile you get to hear a very competent electric

It's OK. I don't usually respond all that strongly to a single, until I hear it in the context of an album. I didn't love "Hey Chicken", or "I Might" until I heard them next to other songs. The production is definitely cool.

There is a somewhat nebulous distinction in the musical content of the record. If there are some spare arrangements to augment some chord strumming and lyric singing then it feels like a solo record. If there are some complex arrangements, and key instrumental sections that seem to have a ton of fingerprints from all the band players it starts to feel like a different band/side project. Maybe the name Tweedy, itself is a compromise between those two ideas. We won't really know the character of the album from these signs until it's actually out there for people to hear. Speculation continu

He did. I think he produced part of their album. I hadn't realized that they'd already broken up. They had a ton of hype and lasted about one hot minute.

Fender and supro amps. SG (I think) through an RX Overdrive and a Crowther Prunes and Custard. I think most of the tone is the little Supro getting smacked with volume. I don't really hear the Prunes and Custard as much on "At Least That's What You Said" but there could be an extra track of it- that pedal is more prominent on leads for "Hell is Chrome" and "Spiders". I'm pretty sure the album and the love of its guitar tones made that Crowther guy over in NZ a lot of sales. Prunes and Custards were popping up everywhere- I know I was excited to get one. I think some people were surprised

This is my favorite of his since The Giant Pin. "The Wedding Band" is near-perfect. Probably my favorite Cline song ever.

I don't get it.

I'm going to see him in a couple weeks!