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    US Tour Dates

    in Just A Fan

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    Definitely, especially because I live down the street. That place is awesome. An outdoor venue in the middle of a city block. How great would it be to how live Wilco blaring all over downtown.

    I can't to see Ween there in Feb.

     

    i don't live in tampa anymore but i must agree. wilco at jannus landing would be perfection. didn't wilco play it back in 2002 or something?

    Let's Not Get Carried Away...Download Now!

    in Just A Fan

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    here's a fun(/lame) game to play. make a new playlist for sky blue sky with lets not get carried away and move lets not get carried away around the album until you find your favourite place for it. i think it sounds especially cool putting it between sky blue sky and side with the seeds. adds an extra kick to the album.

    Chicago Sun Time's Feature and Tribune Review

    in Just A Fan

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    and the review from the sun-times (only three stars):

    http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/dero...ilco13a.article

     

    Wilco's latest takes a while to seep in

    REVIEW | Wilco, 'Sky Blue Sky' (Nonesuch)

     

    May 13, 2007

     

    There are moments of undeniable beauty on Wilco's sixth album, especially during the most lulling and introspective songs, including the opening "Either Way," "You Are My Face" and "What Light." The latter continues the defense of pausing to take stock while fearlessly forging your own path that Tweedy is talking about in interviews: "

    If you feel like singing a song / And you want other people to sing along / Then just sing what you feel / And don't let anyone say it's wrong."

     

    Noble as that sentiment is, "Sky Blue Sky" takes longer to click in than any of Wilco's earlier albums, including the allegedly difficult "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" and "A Ghost Is Born." I only began to appreciate the gorgeous subtlety of the best tunes after a dozen listens, which may seem like a lot of work. But if any artist of his generation has earned the right to ask his fans' indulgence, it's Jeff Tweedy.

     

    Even if you make this effort, though, it can be hard to discern the emotions the songwriter says he's trying to convey, and the less successful songs offer little reason to sing along, sounding either repetitive and incomplete ("Impossible Germany"), sleepy and backward-looking ("Sky Blue Sky," "Please be Patient With Me") or just plain misguided (the Little Feat-like "Walken" or "Hate It Here," with its tedious domestic metaphors about learning to use the washing machine, do the dishes and fold the sheets).

     

    Granted, part of the problem was the anticipation that the group would continue to explore the boldly unconventional soundscapes of its last three albums or that, if it got back to basics, it would do so in the hard-rocking, guitar-heavy fashion of recent stage shows. But those aren't the only expectations plaguing the disc: Longing for a safe, secure and loving future is the major theme in many of the lyrics, and these are paired with sounds that are just as unthreatening and common as those universal desires.

     

    For my money, Wilco has done its greatest work when Tweedy has given voice to his darkest sentiments, as on "Summerteeth," or pondered the most frightening and unsettling aspects of these troubled times, as on the last two albums. And that's a voice we need much more than fresh sheets or clean dishes.

     

    Wilco, 'Sky Blue Sky' (Nonesuch)

    Critic's rating: 3 stars

     

    Jim DeRogatis

    Does anyone know what a Cherry Ghost is?

    in Just A Fan

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    jeff on the bob edwards show:

     

    "As far as cherry ghost, that's another example of, I just wanted to put some words together that kind of implied what I was meaning in a way that wasn't... I guess if I was gonna write 'Cherry Ghost' in a way that was more cliched and directed to the point I would say 'I wanna leave a sweet memory, I wanna be a sweet person.' Basically a sweet ghost, an aftertaste in my life of sweetness, that people loved me and I was loving to people. That's basically, I think, what it was about"

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