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Thanks so much for posting this! I just loved John Lennon and this is the best interview I've ever heard. Just completely relaxed, funny, warm, candid, clever, insightful--I can't say enough good things about it. I was first playing this just as background but found myself completely mesmerized and hanging on every word.

I always liked that bird's nest on his head, so I will miss it if it goes away, but I imagine I'll adjust. It'll take more than balding to rob Jeff of his extreme sexiness!

There's a nice piece in the current issue of The New Yorker on Mavis. They limit their online content to subscribers, so I copied it and am posting below: Soul Sisters by John Seabrook October 18, 2010 Text Size: Mavis Staples After taping an appearance on last Tuesday’s “Late Show with David Letterman,” Mavis Staples returned to the Hudson Hotel with her sister Yvonne, who sings backup in her band, and they went downstairs to the hotel’s restaurant. They were dressed in faded denim jackets and silk scarves. Mavis, who is seventy-one, is two years younger than her sister, and ha

Yes, Jeff's usually impeccably styled coif was a bit off. Perhaps he needs some advice from his fans . . . If you haven't read the entire interview, it's one of the best ever--from 2009: http://www.avclub.co...you-thin,33935/

Jeff's often got a sore throat. He's mentioned it lots of times through the years. Might've been hard to schedule filming around his throat. Which, actually, sounds as soulful and golden to me on this DVD as always.

I bought mine in the U.S. (on Amazon) so I assume it's region 1. It has 13 songs on the main disc + 7 more on the extras, and you can download all of them to your iTunes when you buy the DVD. It's a hell of a value, I think, and thoroughly enjoyable--though there are many on this board who don't like the DVD and I'm sure they'll let you know why. The performances were recorded at several different venues with the current band lineup and interviews are interspersed between many songs--it wasn't just a single concert. Hope this info helps.

Thanks, Barb and Donna! I really wasn't annoyed by the lack of comments, just puzzled that others didn't find the interview as compelling as the one-liner on 30 Rock. Stephen and Jeff are two of my favorite people on the planet, though, so maybe I'm more smitten than most.

I really liked both performances--I might give the edge to You Are Not Alone just because I love the song, but I enjoyed the arrangement of Wrote a Song on Letterman, with Jeff taking a verse. But this gives me the opportunity to flog an apparently dead horse yet again--why no comments on the interview with Mavis and Jeff on Colbert? I posted it on another thread in this topic, or you could click here http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/361308/october-06-2010/mavis-staples---jeff-tweedy

Oh, excellent! Obviously, I haven't gotten around to everything yet. . . too much goodness to get through and too little time.

Exactly. That's why the joke works, in my opinion. You don't think fans of alternative/indie/etc. bands would be rednecks, hence theoretically their music might appeal to people of color, and since it doesn't seem to. . . ta-da, joke! Or so it seems to me. It's hard to deconstruct what makes a joke funny, and 30 Rock is full of inside jokes that only a small percentage of viewers will get. I'm sure I don't get everything that's alluded to in every episode, and I suspect the Wilco joke flew right past a large chunk of the viewers. But to people who did get it, it was really funny, and it did

Actually, I don't think they are. I just got a treasure trove of those DVDs from him and, unless these are buried under a different heading, I don't think they're part of the collection. I saw Wilco on Jools Holland once--maybe twice--and they were indeed good performances. One or more of them are available on a Later with Jools Holland DVD, and they're also up on youtube and dailymotion. Edit: Damn--just re-watched ITMWLY from 2001--awesome!

I could watch this clip all day. Not sure how it addresses the point about "Wrote a Song for Everyone" sounding like "The Weight," but still, any chance to revisit that clip is OK by me. Mavis was a real looker in her younger days, wasn't she? (She's still a cutie, I think.) And to the point about the songs' similarities, I hadn't thought about it, but I do see it. It was a really nice performance on the show, too, with Jeff taking a verse. Maybe that heightened the feeling of similarity between the songs as well.

Newsweek is up for sale--it may have been sold already, not sure--but it's very much in print and has been continually. As to whether Jon Meacham "failed," well, I don't know. This is a tough time for magazines generally and especially for a newsweekly. But I've been subscribing to Time and Newsweek for years and I don't see any significant difference between the two in terms of editorial leanings. (Why do I keep up with both subscriptions? Just crazy, but they keep offering hard-to-pass-up renewal deals.) Jon Meacham writes about religion and the founding fathers, etc., but not--so far as I c

Just bumping this mainly because I thought the interview segment on Colbert was really good and there hasn't been any reaction to it on here yet. But also, did Jeff wear the same suit and shirt on both Letterman and Colbert? Looks like it--his "formal plaid shirt."

Whatwhatwhatwhatwhat???? Is this available anywhere? A DVD of the performances that are on KT?

Oh my god, you had me laughing out loud! This is something I could totally see myself doing, but I'm not sure I could have pulled it off the way you did. My hat's off to you . And so glad you're OK!! (Is it possible the whole episode was due to anticipation of the Letterman appearance? Hope not--it wasn't THAT good!)

And a really sweet interview with the "indie soul legicon" http://www.colbertna...s---jeff-tweedy

Wow, was that beautiful. And Colbert seems to be a real fan, too--he did it up right!

Here's a little better clip, from Consequence of Sound: http://consequenceofsound.net/2010/10/06/mavis-staples-and-jeff-tweedy-cover-ccr-on-letterman/

I like this--fits the show really well, too. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxINMuOgAu8

This has been posted elsewhere, but I thought it deserved its own thread. They will also be on Letterman the night before. It's a good week!

Wow, that's sad in a market like Chicago. We're lucky in my little one-horse town of Norfolk, VA to have 2 NPR stations--one with mainly classical programming and another with all the rest of the usual NPR stuff. Going off topic for just a sec, we actually have a local show here called Out of the Box with Paul Shugrue, that plays great, eclectic music Mon-Thurs from 7-9 and Sat from 1-5. The DJ has an encyclopedic knowledge of alternative, Americana, singer-songwriter, etc. genres and really terrific taste. His favorite album of 2009 was W(TA), so you know he's got it goin' on. If interested

Here's the link to the page, if you'd like to check it out: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/photos/17383/96350. I can't remember all of the festivals, but it included lots of things that did not exactly seem like blockbusters. I do think that Solid Sound was pretty widely heralded as an innovative and particularly cool idea for a festival--the concept, the setting, etc.--even if you weren't a Wilco superfan.

Those slackers! WTF have they been doing with their time??? (I love the picture accompanying this article, though--looks like a photo spread for a superannuated edition of Teen Beat.)

The show is available here and I'm listening to it right now. Very nice music and someone named John Weber is sitting in for Marian McPartland. He is obviously a big fan of Nels and has conducted a knowledgeable, substantial interview between musical pieces.There's not much mention of Wilco, except for context. Edit: I think my link to the show originally was wrong. I hope I've fixed it now. In case it directs you to the wrong show, though, just go to npr.org, search for Nels Cline, then go to the Marian McPartland Piano Jazz link. It's really a nice listen.