lost highway

This is a cool little book. I'm a compulsive songwriter. Not with the same prolificness as Mr. Tweedy, but I'm certainly not wanting for ideas. That said this book gave me a few new ideas to mix up the process, and overall it eloquently affirmed what I like about doing it. I might be putting my copy in my buddy's mailbox when I'm done with it. He's going through a dry spell.

Yeah, I think Jeff's publishing keeps him going okay, but for the band as a whole, and their crew (my buddy just joined as guitar tech) I think months without touring is pretty hard.

So far I like "Guess Again" quite a bit. The title track is probably a grower. What is one listen anyway? This sounds like it will sit nicely, unsurprisingly, to the Warms. A welcome addition in my ears.

Thanks!

Wha wha whaaaaat?!

If this is true my genius is terribly accidental and beautifully idiotic, but Wilco's genius is more extensive than we knew.

I'd bet on something soon, but don't know when.

It's a cross between Locator and Can't Stand It. Half nervy post punk, half Smashmouthesque radio hit.

How do I go back to the older episodes? Also I often wonder why a bigger deal has never been made of the prominent hammer dulcimer sounds on AGIB. Maybe that was really the cimbalom. Also my friend in high school interrupted a hammer dulcimer performance by shouting "I was hammered all summer too!"

I wonder what was the 'disaster' part of that Tower Records performance that earned it that name.....

I would dig that too, but my intuition from what's been going on in the Tweedy house, and on their instagram show is that he wrote a bunch of new folk songs and recorded them with his boys. Which will probably also be awesome. I just figure with the Wilco's scattered in different states they're not finishing any new records any time soon.

it's really the only song on Schmillson that isn't amazing.

It is arguably tastier than any of the mass produced, corporate American lagers.

I just got turned on to this one and I thought a lot of folks who frequent this message board would love some earnest Americana in the vein of Jason Isbell and Ryan Adams when he dealt in this genre. https://snappylittlenumbers.bandcamp.com/album/we-could-be https://open.spotify.com/album/6uaGkk0S7rcr289GoAlazN Full disclosure, this record is on the same label as my band's, and my dear friend runs the operation. I don't actually know Seth as he's a Canadian, and I don't know how to communicate with people who are that polite.

https://consequenceofsound.net/2020/07/kyle-meredith-with-my-morning-jacket/ Not only is Water Fall II out (and pretty great), they've already recently finished recording a proper new album and were chomping at the bit to hit the road again. How wrong I was!

It's not exactly the same as the first edition but it reminds me of my overall impression of the older one: it's kind of grand, and dense. Sometimes there's huge payoffs, sometimes it kind of wanders, but it's always worth a listen.

Yay. That's tomorrow. So good news still happens?

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/670253/how-to-write-one-song-by-jeff-tweedy/9780593183526/

That's okay. There's still a lot of good Canadian songwriters.

And John K Samson is a heavyweight too.

I'd love for him to spill the beans about what this new book project is all about, but I have the feeling we won't hear about it for quite a while.

"Peace of Mind"- Neil Young "Jaimie"- Weezer "Softer"- Jimmy Eat World

Reviving this thread to ask a question (that it looks like Shug was asking almost a year ago): Anyone get the feeling that Jim has lost a lot of interest in MMJ over the last couple years?

Oh my god, Jeff trying to describe this on a physics level as a laymen while Susie is yelling at him to play the closing song was one of the harder laughs I've had at this show.

I see what you did there.