Wilco's Jeff Tweedy: Author! Auteur!

Wilco's front man has a new album and book almost all the time

Let's Go (So We Can Get Back): A Memoir of Recording and Discording With Wilco, Etc., (2018)

World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music (2023)

Cousin. Album by Wilco, 2023.

Starship Casual

Jeff Tweedy's Substack  

For me to go out on a winter Saturday night to see a concert has become a rare thing, but we did go to see Wilco at the Kings Theater in Brooklyn in February 2016. What I remember of it was that the band was great, played the whole Star Wars album, including my fave songs from from that era, "Random Name Generator," and "The Joke Explained." "RNG" was one of this rock band's few actual high energy-by-definition "rock 'n' roll" performances; "The Joke Explained" is like a reverse engineered Dylan song. But according to Setlist FM they did not play the rocking encore I hoped for, "Standing O," from The Whole Love (2011). It is my go to Wilco song when I need a lift. The arteries of the song course with adrenaline, but its mind is sad:

I turn my mood on a dime
I'…