Wilco Lead 7th Inning Stretch at Wrigley

Keeping with their hometown tradition, Wilco lead the Cubs fans at Chicago's Wrigley Field in the singing of "Take Me Out to the Ballgame." We use the term "singing" loosely though, as frontman Jeff Tweedy and the rest of the band pretty much just hold out their microphones to the stands and let the crowd do all the work. Maybe Wilco was tired from their Lollapalooza set the night before. Tweedy, in a "slimming" Cubs jersey with #3 on the back, does stick around for a half-inning interview in which he possibly destroys all his Chicago cred by admitting he's (gasp!) a St. Louis Cardinals fan. Check out the video above.

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Song Stories

“Help Me”

Joni Mitchell | 1974

Joni Mitchell wrote and recorded this song for her album Court and Spark, but she had to switch from her regular band to make the song sound exactly the way she wanted. "I had attempted to play my music with rock & roll players," she told Rolling Stone. "They’d laugh, 'Awww, isn't that cute? She's trying to teach us how to play.'" Mitchell switched to a jazz band, Tom Scott’s L.A. Express, and scored the biggest hit of her career in the process.

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