LouieB

I was about to say something similar. I didn't know Wilco and Radiohead were still connected in people's minds or any other way. Anyone wanting a copy of OK Computer (my only Radiohead album) can write me and I will send it to them. LouieB

What do these four pics have in common....more tomfoolery. LouieB

Clearly the best way to find out what the band is doing is going to Wilcoworld. Also clearly, Wilco has been on the road for a few years straight. Most bands don't do nearly as much touring as Wilco has done to every part of the world. More people have been able to see them than ever and I sure hope they have made a ton of money for their sakes so they they can take it easy. I wish themn well in their hiatus, they deserve it. Hopefully they are going to take a bunch of time off and make a really kick ass album. LouieB

Really?? Where did you get that idea? LouieB

I dunno...I am a huge Bloodshot fan, but I have even seen these guys live and they just don't do it for me. LouieB

I saw the new NY vinyl selling for $30 this weekend, but I walked out of the same store with an entire handful of albums for $26 so I clearly passed it up. LouieB

The Baby Huey Story album is crazy good, if a bit drug addled. Great stuff. LouieB

Why would Nels be hanging by a thread? This makes no sense and doesn't appear based in any sort of reality. Some day Jeff may disband this band, but that day clearly is not in sight. LouieB

I think you have to take a middle road on this. I did know part of his past history and it is not unusual for someone previously having been involved in hard drug use to relapse at some time or another. Is this a disease? Yes it is, not the same as senility or cancer, but still a condition which like any other can be controled, but sometimes isn't. What is sad is that Justin is clearly on the cusp of a reasonably major career breakthrough. He sold out Lincoln Hall (I wasn't there so I can't confirm this, but everyone believed he would), when in the recent past he couldn't even fill Sch

Don't think so. But when he gets out of rehab check him out. He is a fun performer. We didn't talk about the Shel Silverstein tribute album either...not that JTE is on it....but John Prine is....how cosmic. LouieB

I just gave the Ry Cooder produced album and found it better than the first listen I gave it at a party a couple years ago. If you like civil rights era type material, it is also a good one. LouieB

Slightly off topic on this, I find it amazing that JTE has gathered this much of a profile in the last year or so. The fact that everyone seems to know both who he is and that he is hospitalized certainly shows he is either something of a rising star, he is closely identified with his father, or that everyone is just facinated by addiction itself. I can't tell which one or a bit of both. Previous discussions of him had a far smaller number of responses. Either way it looks like the new album is a hit, which is a break for both Justin and his label. LouieB

Flying Burrito Brothers did a good one with Gram Parsons. The Ronstadt version was on "Heart Like a Wheel" which was a huge seller for her. Back in the day (before most everyone here was born) hearing a decent cover version was the usual way us young white suburbanites learned about this kind of material. I only found out about James Carr much later in life, long after his career was over. (As with all soul singers, some of his song selection is great and some is only so so.) LouieB

I am not sure that alcohol was ever the main culprit with him, I think it was a bit more hardcore than that. My understanding was he already has been through rehab for the harder stuff and that he may have been continuing on a more softcore level. Seeing him and talking to him the other day was really disturbing and I didn't even know why. He is a fairly young guy and even the PR pics make him look much older and somewhat strung out. Again, I had hoped that was a bit of an act, but sadly it was not. I had not read the account of what occured in Indy until today. I got the short form from

I have the complete Goldwax sessions...also very good and includes Dark End of the Street. I must admit the first place I heard this song was from Linda Ronstadt. Plenty of others have covered it. LouieB

Because people will pay that.....supply and demand curve.... LouieB

He was in rehab before. Justin is a mid 20s artist who comes with alot of baggage. I saw him last weekend and talked to him for awhile and he appeared to be playing the strung out NY hipster junkie. He looked horrible. Sadly he wasn't really playing. (He apparently got arrested in Indianapolis a couple nights earlier for tearing up a dressing room at a club.) You really gotta feel for the guy on one level, since he is genuinely talented guy who maybe takes his role a bit too serious, sort of like a method actor too far into his part. Not saying he doesn't have substance abuse issues, but w

Nels seems to be doing very well on his own I think. LouieB

Most teachers never get this famous....interesting... LouieB

That's a rilly long time ago............. LouieB

And another Greg Kot article in today's Tribune..... LouieB Secret weapon behind Mavis Staples' new Jeff Tweedy-produced album Greg Kot The story that most fans know about Mavis Staples’ rousing new album, “You Are Not Alone” (Anti), is that the singer recorded it with Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy, who produced it and also wrote two songs. But the most underappreciated aspect of it is that Tweedy didn’t leave his thumbprints all over the session. On the contrary, he not only let Mavis be Mavis, he ensured that she would record the album with her touring band: guitarist Rick Holmstrom, bassist

So what was the last close to good record Neil put out?? Prairie Wind?? LouieB

Better late than never.... LouieB

Well the reason it doesn't sound like Wilco is that only Pat and Jeff from Wilco are on it. Bettye's new one is really a snooze and a bit misguided. Sometimes a good idea on paper just doesn't work. LouieB

But the article does point out that Alligator did put her "comeback" record out. Alligator is a very fine independent blues label and that CD is excellent, recorded in Evanston. It is not surprising or new that older artists have a hard time in the market place. Even by the early 2000s things were beginning to deteriorate in the music biz. But again, the entire history of popular music is littered with older artists who couldn't catch a break anymore. I don't know that "souls" ever ran the music business. It doesn't appear they did from the reading I have done. Shedding older artists