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March 20, 2009

Wilco Gets Experimental on New Album

Band brings New Zealand inspiration home for ambitious set.
March 9, 2009

Inside Wilco's Latest Loft Session
June 16, 2004

Jeff Tweedy's Cure for Anxiety

A stint in rehab got the Wilco leader back on his feet, but what really helps is the guitar in his hands
May 11, 2004

Q&A: Tweedy Talks "Ghost," Rehab

Wilco frontman ready for return

Recordings and Reviews

Wilco

Wilco's seventh studio album is a triumph of determined simplicity by a band that has been running from the obvious for most of this decade. The title is the giveaway. So is the opening gag, "Wilco (The Song)," with its rattling-bones guitar and singer-boss Jeff Tweedy's assurance, sung like pillow...

2009 RS: 4of 5 Stars

Sky Blue Sky

2007

Being There

2007

Kicking Television: Live In Chicago

2005

A Ghost Is Born

2004

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

2002

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Biography

The breakup of the influential Belleville, Illinois, roots-punk band Uncle Tupelo found Jay Farrar and Jeff Tweedy, the band's principal singer-songwriters, fronting new groups of their own. People expected less from Tweedy than they did from Farrar, who had always been regarded as the more serious artist of the two. It wasn't long, however, before Tweedy's new band Wilco outstripped Farrar's Son ...

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