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This should go on Wilco's next album. ;-)

Or they could have done "I Got You Babe."

I'm ashamed to admit that I really only just started getting into this record, plus No Code + Binaural. Basically I stopped listening after Vitalogy, many, many years ago, and recently felt the need to give these a try after reconnecting with an old friend who worships at the altar of PJ. That Vs./Vitalogy box set looks awfully tempting. But yes -- Yield is quite something. Sad I blew it off.

I'm confused...sometimes. I really did think the product of Tweedy + Feist was going to turn out differently -- maybe they should have gone for this vibe, although Tweedy probably wouldn't have gone for the choreography.

I would love an album of stuff that sounds like "Blue Eyed Soul," the song.

Ain't that the truth. I just threw out a crappy IKEA dresser that developed a slow, slight lean for the last few months, and I was afraid to try and fix it, fearing that it might crumble and split open into a nasty mess of cheap wood, stripped screws, and the worst of all...cam-locks.

So who's going to listening to the stream of the new record when it arrives -- assuming that will happen? Since I didn't first hear Wilco until 2005 -- and I started with A.M. and went forward from there, Sky Blue Sky was the first "new" album I'd heard by them, and I opted to close my ears to its online presence until the vinyl arrived at my house. I made an "occasion" out of the first listen. On the other hand, I "spun" W(TA) quite a bit from the stream before its release. I can't decide what I'll do for the next album.

Thanks for acknowledging my lame pun. My father loved puns and passed on the appreciation to me...I can't help it.

I thought I remembered reading in "Learning How to Die" that Henneman was offered the full-time gig after he was hired for A.M., but he declined because the Bottle Rockets were just starting to...launch?

Agreed on both counts. Thanks for letting me think out loud...

I realize this is all silly speculation -- but would Tweedy have grown or progressed in the same fashion had Henneman joined the group? What if he'd continued to explore the alt-country more? What if they continued to do more songs like "Sugar Baby" or "James Alley Blues?"

Every time I spin A.M. I always wonder how Wilco might have progressed if Henneman took the gig as full-time lead guitarist. Some very, very tasty playing. I love every track.

Amen to Henneman. His playing is part of why I love A.M. so much -- gives it a unique place in the band's catalog. Brian's liner notes in the A.M. vinyl reissue are great and speak to the vibes of that session...just guys in a room, making music, no pretense. Love it.

Smith Westerns are opening.

Yeah. A lot of these could have been shot during recording of just one tune.

This song needs to rear its awesome head more often.

A.M. > W(TA)

I want to see the clip where they're watching the "Box Full of Letters" video...

I enjoyed the first record by The Dead Weather, and quite a bit of the first Raconteurs record. I did not enjoy the second efforts by either band as much as their debuts. I also agree with the sentiment on the Wanda Jackson record.

Perhaps it's for this reason that, in my opinion, the two best guitar albums in Wilco's catalog are Being There and A Ghost is Born.

I enjoy several of Jackson Browne's records, and think he's a respectable guitarist, a talent which comes through in his live, solo acoustic recordings. The one time I saw him live, however, was one of THE worst concerts I've ever been to. But his slide playing in the solo take of "Your Bright Baby Blues" is enough to make me happy.

I LOVE this record...got the old LP from my Dad's collection a few years ago and it's definitely stocked in the "favorite" section.

Yes -- I realize that the notes do not say what kind of radio it is, only whom it belongs to. I just figured out that you were talking about the gifting of the radio...

Just checked the LP -- all it says is "Radio Courtesy of Robert G. Tweedy."