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Wednesday, 17 October 2012

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Chicago ( or ) is the largest city in the state of Illinois. With over 2.8 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous city in the country. Its metropolitan area, commonly named "Chicagoland," is the 26th most populous in the world, home to an estimated 9.7 million people spread across the U.S. states of Illinois, Wisconsin, and Indiana. Chicago is the county seat of Cook County.
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Illinois
Illinois ( {{respell|-i-), is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. It is the most populous state in the Midwest region, however with 65% of its residents concentrated in the Chicago metropolitan area, most of the state has either a rural or a small town character. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and western Illinois, and natural resources like coal, timber, and petroleum in the south, Illinois has a broad economic base. Illinois is an important transportation hub; the Port of Chicago connects the Great Lakes to the Mississippi River via the Illinois River. As the "most average state", Illinois has long had a reputation as a bellwether both in social and cultural terms and politics, though the latter has not really been true since the early 1970s.
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Massachusetts
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts () is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. Most of its population of 6.6 million lives in the Boston metropolitan area. The eastern half of the state consists of urban, suburban, and rural areas, while Western Massachusetts is mostly rural. Massachusetts is the most populous of the six New England states and ranks third among U.S. states in GDP per capita.
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Missouri
Missouri () (abbreviated MO) is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States, bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska. With a 2009 estimated population of 5,987,580, Missouri is the 18th most populous state in the nation and the fifth most populous in the Midwest. It comprises 114 counties and one independent city. Missouri's capital is Jefferson City. The four largest urban areas are St. Louis, Kansas City, Springfield, and Columbia. Missouri was originally acquired from France as part of the Louisiana Purchase and became defined as the Missouri Territory. Part of the Missouri Territory was admitted into the union as the 24th state on August 10, 1821.
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New York
New York (; locally or ) is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east. The state has a maritime border with Rhode Island east of Long Island, as well as an international border with the Canadian provinces of Ontario to the north and west, and Quebec to the north. New York is often referred to as New York State to distinguish it from New York City.
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Texas
Texas () is the second-largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state in the contiguous United States.
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United States
The United States of America (also referred to as the United States, the U.S., the USA, or America) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Caribbean and Pacific.
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America Online
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Avi Buffalo
Avi Buffalo is an indie-pop band based in Long Beach, California. Their self-titled debut album was released on the 27th of April, 2010. Critical reviews of the album earned it a score of 82 out of 100 on Metacritic, categorizing it as having received "universal acclaim". The album's first single is "What's In It For", which has been described as Shins-esque. The band performed at SXSW the same year, and was scheduled to open for Modest Mouse in July. As of May 2010, the band is touring Europe, and will tour North America later in the year.
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Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II (; born August 4, 1961) is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned after his election to the presidency in November 2008.
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Beck
Beck Hansen (born Bek David Campbell; July 8, 1970) is an American musician, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist known by the stage name Beck. With a pop art collage of musical styles, oblique and ironic lyrics, and postmodern arrangements incorporating samples, drum machines, live instrumentation and sound effects, Beck has been hailed by critics and the public throughout his musical career as being amongst the most creative and idiosyncratic musicians of 1990s and 2000s alternative rock.
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Bill Fay
Bill Fay is an English singer, pianist and songwriter.
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Billy Bragg
Stephen William Bragg (born 20 December 1957), known as Billy Bragg, is an English alternative rock musician and left wing activist who blends elements of folk music, punk rock and protest songs, and his lyrics mostly deal with political or romantic themes. His music career has lasted more than 30 years, and he has collaborated with Natalie Merchant, Johnny Marr, Hank Wangford, Florence and the Machine, Kate Nash, Leon Rosselson, members of R.E.M., Michelle Shocked, Less Than Jake, Kitty Daisy & Lewis, Kirsty MacColl, and Wilco. Bragg often plays and speaks at the Tolpuddle Martyrs festival. Bragg Close, a street in Dagenham, is named in his honour, and he currently lives in Dorset.
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Bob Dylan
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Brian Henneman
Brian Henneman is an alt-country/roots rock musician best known as the frontman for the Bottle Rockets, as a songwriter, lead singer, and guitarist. Artists such as John Prine, Neil Young and Merle Haggard have influenced his songwriting style. Henneman began his musical career in the mid-1980s forming the bands The Blue Moons and Chicken Truck. He also spent time as the guitar tech/additional musician with peers Uncle Tupelo from 1990-1992, prior to forming the Bottle Rockets in late 1992.
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Brian Wilson
Brian Douglas Wilson (born June 20, 1942 in Inglewood, California) is an American musician, best known as the leader and chief songwriter of the group The Beach Boys. Within the band, Wilson played bass and keyboards, also providing part-time lead vocals and, more often, backing vocals, harmonizing in falsetto with the group.
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David Fricke
David Fricke is a senior editor at Rolling Stone magazine, where he writes predominantly on rock music. In the 1990s, he was managing editor before stepping down.
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David Kahne
David Kahne is an American record producer. Kahne is notable for his role as in-house producer and engineer at 415 Records, the first American New Wave label, and for his subsequent roles as Vice President of A&R; at Columbia Records and Warner Bros. Records. He produced , the 1995 Grammy Award winner for Album of the Year. Other artists Kahne has produced include Paul McCartney, Fishbone, Sublime, The Strokes, Sugar Ray, The Bangles, Translator, Stevie Nicks and Regina Spektor. He also worked with Linkin Park on some of their earlier studio work after signing with Warner.
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Derek Webb
Derek Walsh Webb (born May 27, 1974 in Memphis, Tennessee) is an American singer-songwriter who first entered the music industry as a member of the band Caedmon's Call, and later embarked on a successful solo career.
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Ed O'Brien
'''Edward John O'Brien''' (born 15 April 1968, in Oxford, England) is songwriter and one of three guitarists for Radiohead. He is also responsible for harmony vocals during live concerts and on many tracks from the band's albums (occasionally with drummer Phil Selway). In addition, he has played guitar and provided backing vocals for the 7 Worlds Collide project.
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Ernest Tubb
Ernest Dale Tubb (February 9, 1914 – September 6, 1984), nicknamed the Texas Troubadour, was an American singer and songwriter and one of the pioneers of country music. His biggest career hit song, "Walking the Floor Over You" (1941), marked the rise of the honky tonk style of music. In 1948, he was the first singer to record a hit version of "Blue Christmas", a song more commonly associated with Elvis Presley and his mid-1950s version. Another well-known Tubb hit was "Waltz Across Texas" (1965), which became one of his most requested songs and is often used in dance halls throughout Texas during waltz lessons. In the early 1960s, he recorded duets with up-and-coming Loretta Lynn, including their hit "Sweet Thang". Tubb is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame.
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Feist (singer)
Leslie Feist (born 13 February 1976), known professionally as simply Feist, is a Canadian singer-songwriter and is a member of the indie rock group Broken Social Scene. At the 2008 Juno Awards in Calgary, she was the top winner with five awards, including Songwriter of the Year, Artist of the Year, Pop Album of the Year, Album of the Year and Single of the Year.
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Freakwater
Freakwater is an American alternative country band from Kentucky. In 1989, Catherine Irwin and Janet Beveridge Bean (of rock band Eleventh Dream Day) founded the band, and they have been supported by several musicians since then, including members of Califone (2005 Thinking of You tour). Bassist David Wayne Gay is another long-time member of the band. They release their records on Chicago's Thrill Jockey label.
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Glenn Kotche
Glenn Kotche () is an American drummer and composer, best known for his involvement in the band Wilco.
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Greg Kot
Greg Kot (born March 3, 1957) has been the rock critic of the Chicago Tribune since 1990. His biography of Wilco and the state of the music industry, , was published in 2004 by Doubleday/Broadway Books. He is a regular contributor to Rolling Stone and other national periodicals, and is the music analyst for Fox-TV morning newscasts. His work also has appeared in Encyclopaedia Britannica and numerous books, including Harrison, a Rolling Stone tribute to George Harrison; ''The Trouser Press Guide to '90s Rock; and the Rolling Stone Album Guide. He also appears on the radio show Sound Opinions'' each week with Chicago Sun-Times music critic, Jim DeRogatis. It is broadcast on over 50 radio stations across the United States, including Chicago Public Radio (91.5 FM WBEZ Chicago, WBEZ 89.6 FM Chesteron, and WBEQ 90.7 FM Morris, on Fridays at 8 PM and Saturdays at 11 AM CST).
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Hannibal Buress
Hannibal Buress (born 1983) is an American stand-up comedian and television writer currently living in New York City.
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Harold Bloom
Harold Bloom (born July 11, 1930) is an American writer and literary critic, currently Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University. He is known for his defense of 19th-century Romantic poets, his construction of unique but controversial theories of poetic influence, and for advocating an aesthetic approach to literature against feminist, Marxist, New Historicist, poststructuralist (deconstructive and semiotic) literary criticism. Bloom is a 1985 recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship.
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Henry Miller
Henry Valentine Miller (December 26, 1891 – June 7, 1980) was an American novelist and painter. He was known for breaking with existing literary forms and developing a new sort of 'novel' that is a mixture of novel, autobiography, social criticism, philosophical reflection, surrealist free association, and mysticism, one that is distinctly always about and expressive of the real-life Henry Miller and yet is also fictional. His most characteristic works of this kind are Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn and Black Spring. He also wrote travel memoirs and essays of literary criticism and analysis.
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Howie Klein
Howie Klein is an American DJ, music producer, record label founder, record label executive, and political blogger, who was president of Reprise Records from 1989 to 2001.
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James Gadson
James Gadson (born June 17, 1939) is an American drummer and session musician. Beginning his career in the late 1960s, Gadson has since become one of the most-recorded drummers in the history of R&B; music.
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Jamie Lidell
Jamie Lidell (born 18 September 1973 in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, England) is an English musician and soul singer living in Manhattan, United States. He also has a group with Cristian Vogel called Super Collider.
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Jay Bennett
Jay Walter Bennett (November 15, 1963 - May 24, 2009) was an American guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, engineer, producer, and singer-songwriter, best known for his work with the band Wilco.
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Jeff Tweedy
Jeffrey Scot "Jeff" Tweedy (born August 25, 1967 in Belleville, Illinois, United States) is an American songwriter, musician and leader of the band Wilco. Tweedy joined rockabilly band The Plebes with high school friend Jay Farrar in the early 1980s, but Tweedy's musical interests caused one of Farrar's brothers to quit. The Plebes changed their name to The Primitives in 1984, and subsequently to Uncle Tupelo. Uncle Tupelo garnered enough support to earn a record deal and to tour nationally. After releasing four albums, the band broke up in 1994 because of conflicts between Tweedy and Farrar.
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John Coltrane
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John Lennon
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John Mulaney
John Edmund Mulaney is an American stand-up comedian and writer for Saturday Night Live.
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John Stirratt
John Stirratt is bassist and multi-instrumentalist for Wilco, and The Autumn Defense.
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Jon Pareles
Jon Pareles is an American journalist who is the chief popular music critic in the arts section of the New York Times. He played jazz flute and piano, and graduated from Yale University with a degree in music. In the 1970s he was an associate editor of Crawdaddy!, and in the 1980s an associate editor at Rolling Stone and the music editor at The Village Voice. He currently reviews popular music in the arts section of the New York Times.
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Ken Coomer
Ken Coomer (born November 5, 1960) was the last drummer for the band Uncle Tupelo as well as the drummer for Chicago based-band Wilco until Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. He was the drummer and co-founder of the Nashville-based band, Clockhammer, in the late 1980s/early 1990s, as well as Buzzkill, during that same time, and he continues to play on various projects.
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Kristen Schaal
Kristen Schaal (born January 24, 1978) is an American actress, writer and comedian, best known for her role as Mel in the HBO series Flight of the Conchords and as a contributor on The Daily Show.
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Leroy Bach
LeRoy Bach is an American musician. LeRoy was involved in the recording of Wilco's 1999 album Summerteeth, 2000's "Mermaid Avenue, Vol 2," 2002's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, and 2004's A Ghost Is Born. In January 2004, Wilco announced on the band's web site that Bach was leaving the band. While a member of Wilco, LeRoy played a number of instruments live and in the studio, including piano, synthesizers, guitar, and bass.
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Liam Finn
Liam Mullane Finn (born 24 September 1983 in Melbourne, Australia) is an Australian born New Zealand musician and songwriter. Born in Australia, he moved to New Zealand as a child. He is the son of pop musician Neil Finn (of Split Enz and Crowded House).
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Lisa Germano
Lisa Germano (born June 27, 1958) is an American singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who has released seven albums featuring her often-hushed vocal style, confessional lyrics, and distinctive violin. Her 1994 album Geek the Girl received widespread critical acclaim, including being featured as a top album of the 1990s by the music magazine Spin. She is also known as a guest performer and/or session musician on over sixty records by a variety of artists, including John Mellencamp, Simple Minds, David Bowie, Yann Tiersen, Neil Finn, Sheryl Crow, Iggy Pop, Jewel and Eels.
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Mavis Staples
Mavis Staples (born July 10, 1939 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American rhythm and blues and gospel singer and civil rights activist who recorded with The Staple Singers, her family's band.
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Max Johnston
Max Johnston is a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist best known for his work on fiddle, Dobro, banjo, and mandolin with the bands Uncle Tupelo, Wilco and more recently, The Gourds. Johnston is the younger brother of singer-songwriter Michelle Shocked and has supported her in concert tours as well.
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Mikael Jorgensen
Mikael Jorgensen is lead pianist and keyboardist for the band Wilco as well as a member of the band Pronto. He first appeared on Wilco's 2004 release, A Ghost Is Born. On that album, he received songwriting credit for "Hell is Chrome" and "Theologians".
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Miles Davis
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Neil Finn
Neil (christened Cornelius ) Mullane Finn, OBE (born 27 May 1958) is a pop recording artist and one of New Zealand's foremost popular musicians. Along with his brother Tim Finn, he was the co-frontman for Split Enz and is now frontman for Crowded House. He has also recorded several successful solo albums and assembled diverse musicians for the 7 Worlds Collide projects.
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Neil Young
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Nels Cline
Nels Cline (born in Los Angeles in 1956) is an American guitarist and composer, currently the lead guitarist of alternative rock band Wilco. David Carr's book Torture-Free but Still a Rock Star describes Cline as "one of the best guitarists in any genre."
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Nora Guthrie
Nora Lee Guthrie (born January 2, 1950) is the daughter of American folk musician and singer/songwriter Woody Guthrie and his second wife Marjorie Guthrie, sister of singer/songwriter Arlo Guthrie, and granddaughter of renown Yiddish poet Aliza Greenblatt. She oversees the Woody Guthrie Foundation located in New York City.
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Ornette Coleman
Ornette Coleman (born March 9, 1930) is an American saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter and composer. He was one of the major innovators of the free jazz movement of the 1960s.
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Pat Sansone
Pat Sansone (born June 21, 1969) is a multi-instrumentalist in the rock bands Wilco and The Autumn Defense.
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Peter Sellers
Peter Sellers, OBE (born Richard Henry Sellers, 8 September 1925 – 24 July 1980), was a British comedian and actor best known for his roles in Dr. Strangelove, as Chief Inspector Clouseau in The Pink Panther film series, as Clare Quilty in the original 1962 screen version of Lolita, and as the man-child, Chance the gardener, in his penultimate film, Being There.
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Phil Selway
Philip James Selway (born 23 May 1967) is an English musician and songwriter, best known as the drummer of English alternative rock group Radiohead. He also drums and provides backing vocals, along with occasional guitar and lead vocals, for 7 Worlds Collide. Selway is known for his precision and proficiency in various styles and unusual time signatures, being named the 26th greatest drummer of all time by Gigwise in 2008. He has worked with Samaritans since 1991.
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Skip Spence
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Syd Straw
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The Books
The Books are an American folktronica duo, formed in New York City in 1999, consisting of guitarist and vocalist Nick Zammuto and cellist Paul de Jong. Their releases typically incorporate samples of obscure sounds and speech. They have released three critically-acclaimed albums on the German label Tomlab, and recently released their fourth studio album, The Way Out, on Temporary Residence Limited.
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Todd Barry
Todd Barry (born March 26, 1964) is an American stand-up comedian, actor and voice actor, known for his "laid-back" stage manner.
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Wayne Coyne
Wayne Michael Coyne (born January 13, 1961) is the lead singer, guitarist, and principal songwriter for the band The Flaming Lips.
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William H. Gass
William Howard Gass (born July 30, 1924) is an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, critic, and former philosophy professor. He has written two novels, three collections of short stories, a collection of novellas, and seven volumes of essays, three of which have won National Book Critics Circle Award prizes and one of which, "A Temple of Texts," won the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism. His 1995 novel The Tunnel received the American Book Award.
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Willie Nelson
Willie Hugh Nelson (born April 30, 1933) is an American country singer-songwriter, author, poet, actor and activist. He reached his greatest fame during the outlaw country movement of the 1970s, and remains iconic, especially in American popular culture.
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Woody Guthrie
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Wilco - " I Am Trying To Break Your Heart "

"I Am Trying To Break Your Heart" is off Wilco's 2001 album Yankee Hotel Fox...

published: 08 Dec 2009

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WILCO - "Born Alone"

"Born Alone" from Wilco's upcoming album "The Whole Love," out Sep...

published: 06 Sep 2011

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Wilco: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

Armed with acoustic guitars, tiny amps, a desktop percussion unit and a ton of grace, Wilc...

published: 18 Oct 2011

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Wilco Hangout Fest 2012-05-18 Stream

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Wilco - Jesus, Etc (clip)

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Wilco - One Sunday Morning (Song for Jane Smiley's Boyfriend) (Audio HQ)

One Sunday Morning (Song for Jane Smiley's Boyfriend) - Wilco 2011 new song (Audio HQ)...

published: 09 Oct 2011

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wilco - you and i

Beautiful "You And I", from next cd "Wilco (the album)"...

published: 22 May 2009

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Wilco - War On War (Letterman)

Wilco playing War On War on Letterman show...

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Wilco - Handshake Drugs (Live on Letterman)

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Wilco - "Sunloathe"

"Sunloathe" from Wilco's latest album "The Whole Love" on dBpm Rec...

published: 19 Sep 2012

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Jeff Tweedy of Wilco (Documentary)

RITUALS: Thrash Lab documented the ritualistic behaviors of Jeff Tweedy (frontman of the b...

published: 27 Jun 2012

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Wilco - Art Of Almost (Live on Letterman)

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WILCO - SKY BLUE SKY

Oh, the band marched on in formation The brass was phasing tunes I couldnt place Windows o...

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wilco how to fight the loneliness

How to fight loneliness Smile all the time Shine your teeth till meaningless And sharpen t...

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Wilco - Country Disappeared | A Take Away Show

Images by Derrick Belcham Sound by Nora Bouazzouni Produced by Nora for La Blogothèque Re...

published: 28 Mar 2010

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Jerico and Marizel (Tuesday Vargas)

Dicovery Shores Boracay Photographer : Jill Lejano; Melo Balingit; Chito Cleofas Coordina...

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Whole Love

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School children - girls and boys playing on the school ground in the school - India

Now, get info on schools at the click of a mouse

The Times of India

15 Oct 2012

PUNE: Profiles of all secondary schools in the state will now be available at the click of a mouse. A project to this effect has been undertaken by the state Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan, a...

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Eine Hand zeigt in Berlin fuer eine Fotoillustration auf einen Computer-Bildschirm mit der Startseite der Videotauschboerse "Youtube" (Foto vom 06.11.06).

Des dizaines de millions de personnes ont regardé le saut de Baumgartner

France24

15 Oct 2012

Des dizaines de millions de personnes ont regardé dimanche avec fascination et angoisse le saut spectaculaire du parachutiste autrichien Felix Baumgartner, qui a franchi pour la...

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Pakistani men hold pictures of 14-year-old schoolgirl Malala Yousufzai, who was shot last Tuesday by the Taliban for speaking out in support of education for women, during a candlelight vigil in Karachi, Pakistan, Saturday, Oct. 13, 2012.

Pakistan sends 14-year-old girl shot by Taliban to UK for care

Richmond Times Dispatch

15 Oct 2012

ISLAMABAD — Pakistan airlifted a 14-year-old activist who was shot and seriously wounded by the Taliban to the United Kingdom for treatment today, a move that will give her access to the...

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Skydiver Felix Baumgartner lands safely on Earth after skydiving fom 24 miles

Detroit Free Press

14 Oct 2012

Update: Extreme athlete Felix Baumgartner has landed on Earth after a jump from the stratosphere in what could be the world's first supersonic skydive. Baumgartner landed in eastern New Mexico desert...

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Felix Baumgartner, left, of Austria, and Art Thompson, technical project director, hug one another after Baumgartner successfully jumped from a space capsule lifted by a helium balloon at a height of just over 128,000 feet above the Earth's surface, Sunday, Oct. 14, 2012, in Roswell, N.M.

Baumgartner kwam even in beruchte 'flat spin' terecht

de Volkskrant

14 Oct 2012

De Oostenrijkse parachutist Felix Baumgartner is gedurende zijn recordsprong even in een zogeheten flat spin terechtgekomen, zo vermoedt hij. Dat was vooraf de meest gevreesde toestand waarin hij zou...

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Wilco setlist: Teatro della Concordia, Turin, Italy 10/12/14 16 Oct 2012

The Examiner Related topics wilcosetlist Advertisement What Wilco played at the Teatro della Concordia in Turin, Italy onFriday night: “Misunderstood” “Art of Almost” “Standing O” “I Am Trying To Break Your Heart” “I Might” “Sunken Treasure” “Born Alone” “Laminated Cat” (aka “Not For The Season”) “Impossible...(size: 6.0Kb)

Wilco setlists: Bilbao 10/14 & Barcelona 10/15 16 Oct 2012

The Examiner Related topics rockwilcosetlistfilmbabbleES Advertisement A few more European setlists to catch up with from Wilco's final tour of 2012. First up, the Chicago band's show on Sunday at Palacio Euskalduna Bilbao, ES: “One Sunday Morning” “Art of Almost” “I Might” “I Am Trying to Break Your Heart”...(size: 6.8Kb)

'Save The Date' Soundtrack Features Wilco, Giorgio Moroder, Charles Bradley & More; Film Opens December 14th 16 Oct 2012

IMDb Starring Lizzy Caplan, Alison Brie, Martin Starr, Mark Webber, and Melonie Diaz, among others, Lakeshore Records will release the original...(size: 0.9Kb)

Wilco setlists: Padova, Italy 10/10 & Florence, Italy 10/11 13 Oct 2012

The Examiner Related topics rockwilcosetlistitaly Advertisement Gotta a few setlists to catch up on - Wilco kicked off their final tour of 2012 on Wednesday night in Padova, Italy at the Teatro Geox and it went like this: “One Sunday Morning” “Poor Places” “Art of Almost” “I Might” “At Least That's What You...(size: 6.7Kb)

Tour news: Wilco announce NZ shows 12 Oct 2012

NZ Herald Wilco have announced a return visit to New Zealand on the back of an appearance at the East...(size: 0.6Kb)

TEXT-Fitch downgrades WILCO 2007-1 GmbH 05 Oct 2012

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This article is about the American rock band. For other uses, see Wilco (disambiguation).

Wilco
Wilco performing at the 2004 Austin City Limits festival
Background information
Origin	Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Genres	Alternative rock, alternative country, folk rock, experimental rock
Years active	1994 (1994)–present
Labels	dBpm, Nonesuch, Reprise
Associated acts	Uncle Tupelo, Loose Fur, Billy Bragg, The Minus 5, Son Volt, Golden Smog
Website	wilcoworld.net
Members
Jeff Tweedy John Stirratt Nels Cline Glenn Kotche Pat Sansone Mikael Jorgensen
Past members
Leroy Bach Max Johnston Jay Bennett Bob Egan Ken Coomer

Wilco is an American alternative rock band based in Chicago, Illinois. The band was formed in 1994 by the remaining members of alternative country group Uncle Tupelo following singer Jay Farrar's departure. Wilco's lineup has changed frequently, with only singer Jeff Tweedy and bassist John Stirratt remaining from the original incarnation. Since early 2004, the other current members are guitarist Nels Cline, multi-instrumentalists Pat Sansone and Mikael Jorgensen, and drummer Glenn Kotche. Wilco has released eight studio albums, a live double album, and three collaborations: two with Billy Bragg, and one with The Minus 5.

Wilco's music has been inspired by a wide variety of artists and styles, including Bill Fay and Television, and has in turn influenced music by a number of modern alternative rock acts. The band continued in the alternative country of Uncle Tupelo on its debut album A.M. (1995), but has since introduced more experimental aspects to their music, including elements of alternative rock and classic pop.

Wilco garnered media attention for its fourth album, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002), and the controversy surrounding it. After the recording sessions were complete, Reprise Records rejected the album and dismissed Wilco from the label. As part of a buy-out deal, Reprise gave Wilco the rights to the album for free. After streaming Foxtrot on its website, Wilco sold the album to Nonesuch Records in 2002. Both record labels are subsidiaries of Warner Music Group, leading one critic to say the album showed "how screwed up the music business is in the early twenty-first century."^[1] Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is Wilco's most successful release to date, selling over 670,000 copies. Wilco won two Grammy Awards for their fifth studio album, 2004's A Ghost Is Born, including Best Alternative Music Album. Wilco's most recent studio album, The Whole Love, was released on September 27, 2011.

1 History
2 Musical style and influence
3 Discography
4 Band member timeline
5 Awards and nominations
6 Notes
7 References
8 External links

History [link]

Formation [link]

Main article: Uncle Tupelo

Wilco was formed following the breakup of the influential alternative country music group Uncle Tupelo. Singer Jay Farrar quit the band in 1994 supposedly because of a soured relationship with co-singer Jeff Tweedy.^[2] Both Tweedy and Farrar sought to form bands immediately after the breakup. Tweedy was able to keep the entire Uncle Tupelo lineup sans Farrar, including bassist John Stirratt, drummer Ken Coomer, and multi-instrumentalist Max Johnston. He even enlisted Uncle Tupelo guest guitarist Brian Henneman of the Bottle Rockets, who performed on many of the tracks for Wilco's debut album, A.M..^[3] The band was tempted to keep the Uncle Tupelo name, but ultimately decided to rename the band.^[4] The group named itself "Wilco" after the military and commercial aviation radio voice acronym for "Will Comply",^[5] a choice which Tweedy has called "fairly ironic for a rock band to name themselves."^[6]

[edit] A.M. and Being There

After collaborating with Syd Straw on a cover version of the Ernest Tubb song "The T.B. is Whipping Me" (released in September 1994 on the Red Hot + Country compilation produced by the Red Hot Organization), Wilco began recording tracks for A.M., their first studio album, at Easley studio in June 1994.^[3]^[5]^[7] A demo tape from these recordings was sent to executives at Reprise Records, a subsidiary of Warner Brothers, and the label signed Tweedy to a contract. Although Tweedy stated that he wanted a more collaborative project than Uncle Tupelo, only his name appeared on the Reprise contract.^[8] Tweedy requested songwriting submissions from other members, but only one submission—John Stirratt's "It's Just That Simple"—appeared on A.M.. It was the last song Wilco ever released that was lyrically solely written by a member besides Tweedy.^[8]

Stylistically similar to Uncle Tupelo, the music on A.M. was considered to be straightforward alternative country rock in what Tweedy later described as "trying to tread some water with a perceived audience."^[9] A.M. peaked at number twenty-seven on the Billboard Heatseekers chart, considerably lower than the debut album of Jay Farrar's new band, Son Volt.^[10]^[11] The album was met with modest reviews though it would rank thirty-fourth in the Village Voice's 1995 Pazz & Jop critics poll.^[12]^[13]^[14] Critically and commercially paling in comparison to the reception of Son Volt's album, the Wilco members perceived A.M. to be a failure.^[15] Shortly after the release of the album, multi-instrumentalist Jay Bennett joined the band, providing the band with a keyboardist and another guitarist.

	"I Must Be High" noicon Sample from "I Must Be High", the first track from A.M.. The song is an example of the straightforward alternative country music described by Tweedy as "trying to tread some water with a perceived audience."
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Wilco made its live debut on November 17, 1994 to a capacity crowd at Cicero's Basement Bar in St. Louis, Missouri (the band was billed for the occasion as "Black Shampoo").^[16]

During the two hundred-date tour supporting A.M., Tweedy began to write songs for a second album. The lyrical theme of the songs reflected a relationship between musical artist and a listener; Tweedy chose this topic because he sought to eschew the alternative country fan base. Ken Coomer elaborated:^[17]

The whole No Depression thing was funny to us because people seemed to forget that Jeff was a bigger punk-rock fan than a country fan. It led to things like us all switching instruments on "Misunderstood," where I'm playing guitar.

A number of songs were recorded with this theme, including "Sunken Treasure" and "Hotel Arizona",^[18] however, Wilco also recorded a number of songs in the style of A.M.^[19] Wilco named the album Being There after a Peter Sellers film of the same name. The band went through some personnel changes during the recording sessions. Max Johnston left the band because he felt that his role in the band had diminished in favor of Bennett; he had also been replaced by violinist Jesse Greene on one track because the band felt that Johnston was unable to play the part. Bob Egan of Freakwater briefly joined the band in the studio, playing pedal steel guitar on "Far, Far Away" and "Dreamer in My Dreams", and then became an official member in September 1996.^[20]^[21]

Unlike the A.M. recording sessions, the band had no vocation for producing a hit song from their second effort.^[22] The recording sessions produced nineteen songs, too many for a single album release. Tweedy was concerned about the high retail price that a double album would be sold for (at least $30), so he asked Reprise Records to release it as a double album at a single album price ($17.98 or less). Reprise agreed to this on the terms that they received Wilco's share of the album royalties. It was estimated in 2003 that the band lost almost $600,000 on the deal, but Tweedy was satisfied.^[23] Being There was well-received by critics from several major media outlets, including Rolling Stone.^[19]^[24]^[25] The album reached #73 on the Billboard album charts,^[26] a significant improvement from A.M., and placed fourteenth on the Pazz & Jop Critics Poll for 1996.^[27]

[edit] Summerteeth and the Mermaid Avenue sessions

In November 1997, Wilco entered Willie Nelson's recording studio in Spicewood, Texas to record a third studio album.^[28] The album was lyrically inspired by the marital problems of Tweedy and his wife, as well as by twentieth-century literature.^[29] Tweedy relied heavily on Bennett to provide music for the singer's "bold, but depressing" lyrics.^[30] Wilco recorded several songs, including "Via Chicago" and "She's a Jar," but began working on another project before assembling the tracks into an album.^[28]

The two Mermaid Avenue albums consisted of recordings of unreleased Woody Guthrie (pictured) songs.

Nora Guthrie contacted singer-songwriter Billy Bragg in spring 1995 about recording some unreleased songs by her father, folk singer Woody Guthrie. Most of the songs were written late in Guthrie's life when he was unable to record due to the motor impairments of Huntington's disease. By the 1990s, Woody Guthrie had become a "relic" to the MTV generation, and Nora sought to establish a different legacy for the musician. To Nora, Bragg was "the only singer I knew taking on the same issues as Woody." Bragg was concerned, however, that his fans would not realize that the songs were written by Guthrie when he performed them on tour, so he decided to record the album with another band.^[31]

Bragg contacted Tweedy and Bennett about co-recording the album while Wilco was on the European segment of their Being There tour. Bragg was particularly fond of Being There because their influences extended farther back than the 1950s. Although Tweedy was indifferent to the offer, Bennett was enthused about recording songs of one of his idols—Bennett's previous band Titanic Love Affair was named after a Billy Bragg lyric. A recording contract between Bragg and Wilco was signed after a show at Shepherd's Bush Empire. Bragg mostly recorded the politically charged lyrics, while Tweedy preferred to record lyrics that showcased Guthrie as a "freak weirdo". The recording of Mermaid Avenue began on December 12, 1997, and was the topic of BBC's Man in the Sand documentary film.^[32]

Tempers flared between Bragg and Wilco after the album was completed. Bennett believed that Bragg was overproducing his songs, a sharp contrast to Wilco's sparser contributions. Bennett called Bragg about the possibility of remixing Bragg's songs, to which Bragg responded "you make your record, and I'll make mine, fucker." Eventually Bragg sent copies of his recordings to Chicago for Bennett to remix, but Bragg refused to use the new mixes on the album. The two parties were unable to establish a promotional tour and quarreled over royalties and guest musician fees.

Despite these conflicts, the album was released on June 23, 1998, and sold over 277,000 copies.^[33] The album received rave reviews from Robert Christgau and Rolling Stone, and was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album.^[34]^[35] It also placed fourth on the Pazz & Jop critics poll for 1998.^[36] After the album was released, Bob Egan was replaced by multi-instrumentalist Leroy Bach.^[37]

After the completion of the Mermaid Avenue sessions, Wilco returned to Spicewood to complete their third studio album, Summerteeth. Unlike previous Wilco and Uncle Tupelo recordings, the album featured a lot of overdubbing with Pro Tools.^[38] Stirratt and Coomer were concerned with the production, since it reduced their involvement in the music. According to Stirratt:^[39]

The story of Summerteeth is Jay bought a Mellotron and he was going to use it, no matter what. It was lovely, but it was overdone. Once they got going on the overdubs, they didn't stop. And nobody in the band stepped up to stop the madness ... It reminds me of Heart of Darkness, where you knowingly extend the creative process for the purpose of exploration or redemption, or whatever it is you're looking for.

During 1999, Warner Brothers was looking to help repay a $16 billion debt acquired during the recent merger of parent company Warner Communications with Time Inc..^[40] As a result, Warner's imprints were under pressure to produce musical acts that would yield hit records. The head of Reprise, Howie Klein, who had previously authorized the release of Being There as a double album, was willing to let Wilco produce Summerteeth without label input. When Klein played the album for Reprise's A&R department, however, they demanded a radio single for the album. Wilco agreed to do this "once and once only" and recorded a radio-friendly version of "Can't Stand It" at the request of David Kahne, the head of the A&R department.^[41] The single version of "Can't Stand It" failed to cross over from Triple-A radio to alternative rock stations. Consequently, the album sold only 200,000 copies, significantly less than Being There.^[42] This was despite critical acclaim; the album placed eighth on the Pazz & Jop critics' poll for 1999.^[43]

After the release of Summerteeth, the band resumed the Mermaid Avenue sessions. Although they had recorded enough material for a second release in 1998, Wilco recorded a few new songs for Mermaid Avenue Vol. II. "Someday Some Morning Sometime," featuring a vibraphone filtered through a space echo, was identified by Tweedy as being the "piece to the puzzle" towards the creation of their fourth studio album. The album was released on May 30, 2000, and was the last release from the sessions.^[44]

[edit] Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

	"I Am Trying to Break Your Heart" noicon The first track from Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, this song featured an intro on bells composed by Glenn Kotche.
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Shortly after the recording sessions for Mermaid Avenue Vol. II, Wilco purchased a studio on Irving Park Road in Chicago, which they named the Wilco Loft.^[45] The band recorded some tracks in the studio in early 2000 for a fourth studio album. In May 2000, Jeff Tweedy requested to perform with Jim O'Rourke at a festival in Chicago; Tweedy was a fan of O'Rourke's Bad Timing. O'Rourke introduced Tweedy to drummer Glenn Kotche, and the trio enjoyed working together so much that they decided to record an album as a side project named Loose Fur.^[46] Wilco had recorded an entire album of music at this point, but Tweedy was unhappy with the drum parts. He enjoyed Kotche's contributions to Loose Fur so much that Tweedy brought him into the studio to re-record some demos. Some believe that Tweedy sought to make Wilco sound like Loose Fur after officially replacing Ken Coomer with Kotche in January 2001.^[47]

Although Bennett sought to act as both mixer and engineer for Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Tweedy was unsure of Bennett's abilities against those of O'Rourke. Tweedy and Bennett frequently argued over whether the album should be accessible to a general listener, or attempt to cover new musical ground.^[48] Unbeknownst to Bennett, Tweedy invited O'Rourke to remix "I Am Trying to Break Your Heart", and the results impressed the other band members—even Bennett. Tensions grew between Bennett and O'Rourke because Bennett wanted to mix every song on the album. O'Rourke cut the contributions of other members on several of the songs; some songs, such as "Poor Places", only featured the Loose Fur trio.^[49] The album was completed in 2001, and Bennett was dismissed from the band immediately afterwards.^[50] The recording of the album was documented by Sam Jones and released in 2002 as the film I Am Trying to Break Your Heart: A Film About Wilco.

Time Warner, which owned Warner Bros. Records, merged with America Online in 2001, leading to more pressure on Warner's record labels to cut costs. Over 600 employees of Warner Music Group were fired, including Howie Klein, the president of Reprise Records. In absence of Klein, David Kahne became the interim head of Reprise.^[51] Kahne assigned Mio Vukovic to monitor the progress of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and to offer suggestions. Music journalist Greg Kot claims that Vukovic disdained the album and was unhappy that Wilco ignored his suggestions.^[52] He brought the album to Kahne, who felt that there was no single on the album. In June 2001, the album was rejected by Reprise and Wilco was asked to leave the label.^[53]

Wilco managed to negotiate terms to a buy-out from Reprise. Music journalist Greg Kot claims that instead of financial compensation, the band agreed to leave the label with the master tapes of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot.^[54] The label was already receiving bad publicity for its treatment of the band and were willing to accommodate Wilco's request.^[55] However, Allmusic claims that Wilco "bought the finished studio tapes from Warner/Reprise for a reported $50,000 and left the label altogether" after Wilco was "[u]nwilling to change the album to make it more 'commercially viable'"^[56] To curb the negative publicity, Reprise began to invest more in bands such as The Flaming Lips. Lead singer Wayne Coyne once remarked:^[57]

We are benefiting from the label's regret over Wilco. We are living in the golden age of that being such a public mistake. The people on Warners said, "we'll never have a band like Wilco feel we don't believe in them again." They'd tell me that it would never happen to us. And what a great day for me!

As the band searched for a new label to release the album, they decided to stream it at their official website to discourage illegal trading of low-quality MP3s.^[58] The band signed with Nonesuch Records, another Time Warner subsidiary, and the album was released in the spring of 2002. When it was released, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot reached number thirteen on the Billboard 200, Wilco's highest chart position to that date.^[59] Yankee Hotel Foxtrot sold over 590,000 copies, and to date remains Wilco's best selling album.^[60] Yankee Hotel Foxtrot was met with wide critical acclaim: it topped 2002's Pazz & Jop critics' poll, was named one of the 100 greatest albums of all time by Q Magazine.^[61]^[62]^[63]

[edit] Down with Wilco, A Ghost Is Born, and Kicking Television: Live in Chicago

While waiting for the commercial release of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Wilco agreed to support R.E.M. collaborator Scott McCaughey for an album release by The Minus 5. They scheduled a recording session for September 11, 2001, but were distraught about the 9/11 terrorist attacks that day.^[64] Later that day, Wilco and McCaughey agreed to "create something good in the world right now" and record some material.^[65] Influenced by Bill Fay's Time of the Last Persecution, The Minus 5's Down with Wilco was released in 2003.^[66] Keyboardist Mikael Jorgensen, who had engineered Down with Wilco, joined Wilco in 2002 as they toured in support of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot.

Wilco at the Wired Rave Awards in 2003

In November 2003, Wilco traveled to New York City to record their fifth album. The album was produced by Jim O'Rourke, who mixed Foxtrot and was a member of Wilco side project Loose Fur. Unlike Summerteeth and Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, A Ghost Is Born featured songs that were created with Pro Tools before ever performing them live.^[67] The album featured the song "Less Than You Think", which included a fifteen-minute track of electronic noises and synthesizers, which Tweedy called "the track that everyone will hate". Tweedy justified the inclusion of the song:^[67]

I know ninety-nine percent of our fans won't like that song, they'll say it's a ridiculous indulgence. Even I don't want to listen to it every time I play through the album. But the times I do calm myself down and pay attention to it, I think it's valuable and moving and cathartic. I wouldn't have put it on the record if I didn't think it was great ... I wanted to make an album about identity, and within that is the idea of a higher power, the idea of randomness, and that anything can happen, and that we can't control it.

Leroy Bach left the band immediately after the album's completion to join a music theatre operation in Chicago.^[68] Like Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Wilco streamed the album online before its commercial release. Instead of using their own web page, the band streamed it in MPEG-4 form on Apple's website.^[69] Wilco sought to substantially change their lineup after Bach's departure, and added Pat Sansone of The Autumn Defense, and avant-garde guitarist Nels Cline to the lineup.^[65]^[70] Just as the band was about to tour to promote the album, Tweedy checked himself in to a rehabilitation clinic in Chicago for an addiction to opioids. As a result, tour plans for Europe were canceled, and the release date for the album was set back several weeks.^[71] A Ghost Is Born was released on June 22, 2004, and became Wilco's first top ten album in the U.S.^[72] The album earned Wilco Grammy Awards for Best Alternative Music Album and Best Recording Package in 2005.^[73] It also placed thirteenth on 2004's Pazz & Jop Critics Poll.^[74]

In 2004, the band released The Wilco Book, a picture book detailing the creation of A Ghost Is Born. The book also contains writings and drawings from band members, as well as a CD with demos from the A Ghost Is Born recording sessions.^[75] Also that year, Chicago Tribune music critic Greg Kot released a biography of the band entitled Wilco: Learning How to Die. The new six-piece Wilco lineup debuted on Kicking Television: Live in Chicago, a two disc live album recorded at The Vic Theater in Chicago. Released on November 15, 2005, the album received high accolades from Spin, Billboard, and Entertainment Weekly.^[76] As of 2007, it has sold over 114,000 copies.^[60]

[edit] Sky Blue Sky

Wilco returned to their loft in Chicago to record a sixth studio album in 2006. Influenced by The Byrds and Fairport Convention, the band considered Sky Blue Sky to be less experimental than previous releases.^[60] Also unlike previous albums, the songs were created as collaborations.

Wilco streamed the album online on March 3, 2007, and offered the song "What Light" as a free MP3 download.^[77] To further publicize the album, Wilco licensed several songs from the Sky Blue Sky recording sessions for use in a Volkswagen advertising campaign. The move was criticized by both critics and fans; Wilco responded by noting that they had previously done advertising campaigns with Apple Inc. and Telefónica Móviles (Movistar).^[78]^[79]^[80] The album was released on May 15, 2007, and was a commercial success: it sold over 87,000 copies in its first week and peaked in the top five in the U.S. album charts.^[81] It also was a top forty hit in seven other countries.^[82]

Reviewer James Brubaker states that Wilco "shine[s] on a handful of the songs" on Sky Blue Sky, such as the "light, and straightforward" songs. While he calls the album "great traditional rock and folk album at times", he states that "once you get past the handful of masterful and lovely performances... the rest of the record comes off at times as dull, and forced."^[83] The allaboutjazz review also had mixed comments. While praising the album as "deceptively insinuating, almost intoxicating to listen to" and noting its "impeccable sound quality," the reviewer claimed that "Sky Blue Sky becomes the first Wilco album that sounds too careful for its own good."^[84]

Pabs Hernandez, a reviewer for Lost at Sea praised the album's "breezy atmosphere and pacing," and noted that it is not "easily judged upon first listen." Overall, Hernandez stated that it "may be no masterpiece, but at worst it's a more than worthy entry into Wilco's laudable catalogue."^[85] Reviewer Greg Locke praised the record as "one of the best albums of the year," calling it a "timeless record, full of sweet, hopeful sophistication and class" and "a lean, mean, soulful album." Like Hernandez, Locke acknowledged that the album could not be properly judged just on the first listening.^[86] The NPR review also had a positive take on the record. While the NPR reviewer stated that the recording "isn't groundbreaking," they praised its "coherent musical expression" and emphasis on "solid songcraft without pretense" which created a "satisfying and melodically sound album."^[87]

In anticipation of the 2008 US presidential election, Wilco released a downloadable version of Bob Dylan's "I Shall Be Released" that they performed with Fleet Foxes. The MP3 was available as a free download from the band's website in exchange for a promise to vote in the election.^[88] The band also made an appearance on The Colbert Report to support presidential candidate Barack Obama.^[89] Wilco released a live performance DVD, Ashes of American Flags, on April 18, 2009, to celebrate Record Store Day.^[90]

In December 2008, Jeff Tweedy, Pat Sansone, Glenn Kotche and John Stirratt traveled to Auckland, New Zealand to participate in Neil Finn's 7 Worlds Collide sequel project, The Sun Came Out, joined by Ed O'Brien, Phil Selway, Johnny Marr, KT Tunstall, Liam Finn, and Lisa Germano. They wrote and recorded several new tracks for the Oxfam-benefiting album including "You Never Know", "What Could Have Been", "Over and Done" and "Don't Forget Me". Jeff Tweedy co-wrote "Too Blue" with Johnny Marr, and Glenn, John and Pat play on most tracks on the album.^[91]

Having enjoyed their time in New Zealand and the vibe of Finn's own Roundhead Studios, the four members stayed in Auckland through January to record the foundation tracks for their next album. Jim Scott, who acted as engineer and mixer for the Neil Finn project, stayed on in the same capacity for the Wilco sessions. Nels Cline and Mikael Jorgensen would later add overdubs to these tracks at the band's Chicago Loft.

[edit] Wilco (The Album)

Wilco released their seventh album, Wilco (The Album), on June 30, 2009.^[92] In March 2009, it was announced that singer-songwriter Feist would make a guest appearance on the new album, on the track "You and I".^[93] Like their previous three albums, Wilco streamed the entirety of the album on its website prior to release.^[94] The album hit the charts at a career-high #4 with sales of 99,000 on the Billboard Top 200 Album chart as well as the #2 spot on Billboard's Top Rock Albums chart.^[95] It marked Wilco's third top 10 album on the U.S. pop chart. The album's first single "You Never Know" reached the #1 spot on the AAA Chart, their first #1 in twelve years.^[96]

Beginning in April of 2009, the band freely distributed a cover of Woody Guthrie's "The Jolly Banker", downloadable from their website. It was recorded at the Wilco loft in February of that year, at the suggestion of Guthrie's daughter, Nora.^[97] Downloaders were encouraged to donate to the Woody Guthrie Foundation. Feist returned to accompany on the track, playing the Garden Weasel.^[98] The track eventually became unavailable for download. In October of 2011, the website began streaming the track via a plugin.^[99]

On May 25, 2009, former band member Jay Bennett died in his home in Urbana, Illinois.^[100] In a prepared statement, Jeff Tweedy remarked that he was "deeply saddened" by Bennett's death.^[101]

Feist and Wilco performed "You and I" on Late Show with David Letterman on July 14, 2009.^[102] In June during their West Coast tour, Wilco joined Beck, Feist, Jamie Lidell and James Gadson in the studio to take part in Beck's Record Club project, covering Skip Spence's Oar album.^[103] The first song "Little Hands" was posted on Beck's website on November 12, 2009.

On April 6, 2010, Wilco announced during their Boston performance that they would be headlining and curating a festival in North Adams, Massachusetts, dubbed Solid Sound Festival. The event ran at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art from August 13–15, and featured various Wilco side projects, including The Autumn Defense, Pronto, The Nels Cline Singers, and Jeff Tweedy solo.^[104] Other bands who appeared included Mavis Staples, Avi Buffalo, Outrageous Cherry, Richard Bishop, The Books, and Vetiver. It also featured non-musical media, such as the Bread and Puppet Theater and comedians Todd Barry, Kristen Schaal, John Mulaney, and Hannibal Buress as well as interactive musical installations by Cline and Kotche.

Wilco's contract with Nonesuch ended in 2010 and they formed their own label. Wilco announced via their web site and Twitter page on January 27, 2011 that the new label will be called dBpm Records (Decibels per Minute) and will be run out of the offices of their manager, Tony Margherita, in Easthampton, MA.^[105]

[edit] The Whole Love

Wilco's eighth studio album, The Whole Love, was released on September 27, 2011.^[106] The first single off the album is titled "I Might". The B-Side to "I Might" is a cover of Nick Lowe's 1977 song "I Love My Label". The single was shown at the Wilco's 2011 Solid Sound Festival at MassMoca and was met by positive reviews. The entire album was streamed live on Wilco's official website for 24 hours between September 3 and 4, 2011.^[107]

Musical style and influence [link]

Wilco performing in support of Sky Blue Sky at Festival Internacional de Benicàssim on July 20, 2007

Wilco's music is typically categorized as alternative rock and alternative country. Despite their career-long association with a major record label, they are generally associated with indie rock.^[108] Wilco draws influence from bands from a variety of musical genres, but primarily from music created between 1966 and 1974.^[109]^[110] John Cale's Paris 1919 was credited by the band as providing a musical parallel. According to Tweedy, "It was eye-opening that I wasn't the only person that felt like these worlds had a lot more in common than they'd been given credit for—that experimentation and avant-garde theory was not directly opposed to beauty, y'know?"^[111]

Other recording artists from that timespan appreciated by the band include John Lennon, Neil Young, and Brian Wilson.^[112]^[113] For his thirty-fourth birthday, Tweedy received a private guitar lesson from Richard Lloyd of Television; Tweedy was a big fan of the group and was particularly fond of the guitar work, which he wanted to incorporate into his music.^[67] Uncle Tupelo was inspired by bands such as Jason & the Scorchers and The Minutemen, influencing the recording of Wilco's A.M..^[114] Tweedy and O'Rourke enjoyed free jazz artists such as Ornette Coleman, Albert Ayler, and Derek Bailey; they also listen to mainstream jazz by artists such as Miles Davis and John Coltrane.^[115]^[116] The lyrical structure of Wilco's songs was dictated by classic literature and cadavre exquis—an exercise where band members take turns writing lines on a typewriter, but are only allowed to see the previously written line.^[116] Among the books that the band has cited as being stylistically influential include William H. Gass's In the Heart of the Heart of the Country, Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer, and Harold Bloom's The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry.^[116]^[117]

Some critics have dubbed Wilco the "American Radiohead", due to their stylistically diverse catalog.^[118]^[119]^[120] A critic from the New York Times argues that Wilco has a "roots-rock...[sound which] reached back to proven materials: the twang of country, the steady chug of 1960s rock, the undulating sheen of the Beach Boys, the honky-tonk hymns of the Band and the melodic symmetries of pop."^[121]

Rolling Stone described Wilco as "one of America's most consistently interesting bands" and "America's foremost rock impressionists."^[122]^[123] Bands that have been influenced by Wilco include Derek Webb (of Caedmon's Call),^[124] The National,^[125] and Grace Potter and the Nocturnals.^[126] English indie rock band Cherry Ghost took its name from a lyric from the Wilco song "Theologians" (from A Ghost Is Born)—lead singer Simon Aldred is a self-proclaimed "massive Wilco fan".^[127] Other notable artists who have covered Wilco live include Norah Jones performing "Jesus, Etc." which took place at the 2008 Bridge School Benefit where they both performed,^[128] a version of which was released as a bonus track on her 2009 release The Fall, Widespread Panic, and Counting Crows and the Wallflowers performing "California Stars."^[129]

Discography [link]

Main article: Wilco discography

A.M. (March 28, 1995)
Being There (October 29, 1996)
Summerteeth (March 9, 1999)
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (April 23, 2002)
A Ghost Is Born (June 22, 2004)
Kicking Television: Live in Chicago (November 15, 2005)
Sky Blue Sky (May 15, 2007)
Wilco (The Album) (June 30, 2009)
The Whole Love (September 27, 2011)

Band member timeline [link]

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Awards and nominations [link]

Grammy Awards [link]

Year	Award	Work/Artist	Result
1999	Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album	Mermaid Avenue	Nominated
2005	Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album	A Ghost Is Born	Won
2005	Grammy Award for Best Recording Package	A Ghost Is Born	Won
2008	Grammy Award for Best Rock Album	Sky Blue Sky	Nominated
2010	Grammy Award for Best Americana Album	Wilco (The Album)	Nominated
2012	Grammy Award for Best Rock Album	The Whole Love	Nominated

Shortlist Music Prizes [link]

Year	Award	Work/Artist	Result
2004	Shortlist Music Prize	A Ghost Is Born	Nominated
2007	Shortlist Music Prize	Sky Blue Sky	Nominated

Wired Rave Awards [link]

Year	Award	Work/Artist	Result
2003	Wired Rave Award	Yankee Hotel Foxtrot	Won

Notes [link]

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^ Kot 2004. p. 112
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^ Kot 2004. p. 135
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^ Kot 2004. p. 151–3
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^ Kot 2004, p. 207
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References [link]

Kot, Greg (2004). Wilco: Learning How to Die (1st ed.). New York City, NY: Broadway Books. ISBN 0-7679-1558-5.
Levy, Joe (2005). Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time (1st ed.). New York City, NY: Wenner Books. ISBN 1-932958-61-4.

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Jane Smiley
Jane Smiley at the 2009 Texas Book Festival
Born	September 26, 1949 Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Nationality	American
Field	Fiction

Jane Smiley (born September 26, 1949) is an American novelist.

1 Biography
- 1.1 Career
2 Works
3 References
4 External links

Biography [link]

Born in Los Angeles, California, Smiley grew up in Webster Groves, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis, and graduated from John Burroughs School. She obtained an A.B. at Vassar College, then earned an M.F.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Iowa. While working towards her doctorate, she also spent a year studying in Iceland as a Fulbright Scholar.

Career [link]

Smiley published her first novel, Barn Blind, in 1980, and won a 1985 O. Henry Award for her short story "Lily", which was published in The Atlantic Monthly. Her best-selling A Thousand Acres, a story based on William Shakespeare's King Lear, received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1992. It was adapted into a film of the same title in 1997. In 1995 she wrote her sole television script, produced for an episode of Homicide: Life on the Street. Her novella The Age of Grief was made into the 2002 film The Secret Lives of Dentists. Her essay "Feminism Meets the Free Market" was included in the 2006 anthology Mommy Wars ^[1] by Washington Post writer Leslie Morgan Steiner.

Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel (2005), is a non-fiction meditation on the history and the nature of the novel, somewhat in the tradition of E. M. Forster's seminal Aspects of the Novel, that roams from eleventh century Japan's Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji to 21st-century American women's literature.

From 1981 to 1996, Smiley taught undergraduate and graduate creative writing workshops at Iowa State University, continuing to teach there even after relocating to California.

In 2001, Smiley was elected a member of The American Academy of Arts and Letters. She participates in the annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books in association with UCLA. Smiley chaired the judges' panel for the prestigious Man Booker International Prize in 2009.^[2]

Works [link]

Novels

Barn Blind (1980)
At Paradise Gate (1981)
Duplicate Keys (1984)
The Greenlanders (1988)
Ordinary Love & Good Will (1989)
A Thousand Acres (1991)
Moo (1995)
The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton (1998)
Horse Heaven (2000)
Good Faith (2003)
Ten Days in the Hills (2007)
The Georges and the Jewels (UK title: Nobody's Horse) (2009)
Private Life (2010)

Story collections

The Age of Grief (1987)

Non-fiction

Charles Dickens (2003)
A Year at the Races: Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money, and Luck (2004)
Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel (2005)
The Man Who Invented The Computer (2010)

Articles

"So shall we reap - Great North American Prairie Ecoregion" Sierra Magazine (April/March 1994)
"Say It Ain't So, Huck: Second Thoughts on Mark Twain's 'Masterpiece'" Harper's Magazine 292.1748 (Jan. 1996): 61-67. (1995)
"And Moo to You Too" Civilization 2.6 (1995): 75.

Essays

The Other Woman: Twenty-one Wives, Lovers, and Others Talk Openly About Sex, Deception, Love, and Betrayal includes "Iowa Was Never Like This"

Television

"In Search of Crimes Past", episode of Homicide: Life on the Street (teleplay; story by Henry Bromell & Julie Martin) (1995)

References [link]

External links [link]

Jane Smiley website
Column archive at The Guardian
Appearances on C-SPAN
Jane Smiley on Charlie Rose
Jane Smiley at the Internet Movie Database
Works by or about Jane Smiley in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
Jane Smiley collected news and commentary at The Guardian
Jane Smiley collected news and commentary at The New York Times
2004 Slate article: "The unteachable ignorance of the red states"
Write TV Public Television Interview with Jane Smiley
2003 interview of Jane Smiley, IdentityTheory
'Jane Smiley's Good Faith', review of Good Faith in the Oxonian Review
In Search of Crimes Past for Homicide: Life on the Street at Internet Movie Database
2010 Monterey Weekly article: "In her new novel, Private Life, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author uses family history as fictional fodder."
KCRW Bookworm Interview

v t e Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1976–2000)

Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow (1976) Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson (1978) The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever (1979) The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer (1980) A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (1981) Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike (1982) The Color Purple by Alice Walker (1983) Ironweed by William Kennedy (1984) Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie (1985) Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (1986) A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor (1987) Beloved by Toni Morrison (1988) Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (1989) The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos (1990) Rabbit at Rest by John Updike (1991) A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (1992) A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler (1993) The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (1994) The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (1995) Independence Day by Richard Ford (1996) Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser (1997) American Pastoral by Philip Roth (1998) The Hours by Michael Cunningham (1999) Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (2000)

Complete list (1918–1925) (1926–1950) (1951–1975) (1976–2000) (2001–2025)

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Jeff Tweedy
Jeff Tweedy performing with Wilco at the Primavera Sound Festival 2007.
Background information
Birth name	Jeffrey Scot Tweedy
Born	(1967-08-25) August 25, 1967 (age 44) Belleville, Illinois, United States
Genres	Alternative country, alternative rock
Occupations	Musician, songwriter
Instruments	Vocals, guitar, bass guitar
Years active	1984–present
Labels	Giant/Rockville, Sire, Reprise, Nonesuch, Drag City
Associated acts	Wilco, Uncle Tupelo, Golden Smog, Loose Fur

Jeffrey Scot "Jeff" Tweedy (born August 25, 1967 in Belleville, Illinois, United States) is an American songwriter, musician and leader of the band Wilco. Tweedy joined rockabilly band The Plebes with high school friend Jay Farrar in the early 1980s, but Tweedy's musical interests caused one of Farrar's brothers to quit. The Plebes changed their name to The Primitives in 1984, and subsequently to Uncle Tupelo. Uncle Tupelo garnered enough support to earn a record deal and to tour nationally. After releasing four albums, the band broke up in 1994 because of conflicts between Tweedy and Farrar.

In 1994, Tweedy formed Wilco with John Stirratt, Max Johnston, and Ken Coomer. Wilco has released eight albums and found commercial success with their albums Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, A Ghost Is Born, Sky Blue Sky and Wilco (The Album). The band also released two collaboration albums with Billy Bragg and one with The Minus 5. Jeff Tweedy has been the recipient of two Grammy Awards, including Best Alternative Album for A Ghost Is Born. Tweedy has also participated in a number of side groups including Golden Smog and Loose Fur, published a book of poems, and released a DVD of solo performances. He was originally influenced by punk and country music, but has later reflected more experimental themes in his music.

Tweedy has been afflicted with migraine headaches since childhood. Treatment for the migraines led to a dependency on painkillers, for which he underwent successful rehab in 2004. Tweedy also has been open about the fact that he suffers from clinical depression and panic attacks.

1 Early life
2 Uncle Tupelo (1987-1994)
- 2.1 Breakup
3 Wilco (1995–present)
- 3.1 Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
- 3.2 A Ghost Is Born and side projects
4 Musical style
5 Personal life
6 Selected discography
- 6.1 Uncle Tupelo
- 6.2 Wilco
7 Notes and references
8 References
9 External links

Early life [link]

Jeff Tweedy was born in Belleville, Illinois on August 25, 1967 as the fourth child of Bob and Jo Ann Tweedy. Bob Tweedy worked at Alton & Southern Railroad in East St. Louis while Jo Ann was a kitchen designer.^[1] Jo Ann bought Tweedy his first guitar at age six, although he did not begin to play it seriously until he was eight.^[1] In 1981, when Tweedy was fourteen years old, he befriended Jay Farrar in an English class at Belleville Township High School West.^[2] All of the members of Farrar's family enjoyed playing music, causing Farrar to already have knowledge of the musical elements of rock and roll. By this time, Tweedy was a fan of The Ramones and country music while Farrar enjoyed The Sex Pistols.^[3]

Farrar was in a band called The Plebes with his brothers Wade and Dade, which Tweedy joined in order to qualify for a battle of the bands competition, which they won.^[4] ^[5]Tweedy pushed The Plebes away from the rockabilly music that they had been playing, which caused Dade Farrar to leave the band. The band renamed themselves The Primitives in 1984, taking their name from a song by garage rock band The Groupies.^[6]^[7] Wade Farrar sang lead vocals and played harmonica, Jay Farrar played guitar, Tweedy played bass guitar, and Mike Heidorn played drums. In late 1986, the band decided to change their name to Uncle Tupelo, because a more popular British band was also using the name "The Primitives".^[8] The Primitives went on hiatus in 1986 after Wade Farrar left the band to finish his engineering degree at Southern Illinois University.^[9] While waiting for Wade to return from campus, Jay, Tweedy, and Heidorn formed Uncle Tupelo.

Uncle Tupelo (1987-1994)[link]

Main article: Uncle Tupelo

At his parents' request, Jeff Tweedy enrolled at several universities, but dropped out of them so that he could concentrate on Uncle Tupelo. While moonlighting as a record store clerk at Euclid Records in St. Louis[1][2], Tweedy met Tony Margherita. After Margherita saw the band perform at an acoustic concert in 1988, he decided to become the band's manager. The band began playing regular shows at Cicero's basement bar in the Delmar Loop near Washington University with other bands playing in a similar style.^[8]^[10] Uncle Tupelo recorded a ten-track demo tape entitled Not Forever, Just For Now in 1989, attracting the attention of Giant/Rockville Records. The independent label signed the band, and Uncle Tupelo's first album, No Depression, was released the next year.^[8] The title song, originally performed by the Carter Family, became strongly associated with the alternative country scene, and became the name of an influential alternative country periodical.^[11]

During times when Uncle Tupelo was not touring, Tweedy and Farrar played as Coffee Creek, a short-lived cover band with The Bottle Rockets' Brian Henneman and Mark Ortmann.^[12] Around this time, Tweedy began developing problems with alcohol abuse, leading to tensions between Tweedy and Farrar. While he never refused to play a gig, Tweedy was forced to sit out in place of Henneman at some performances. Tweedy quit drinking entirely after meeting future wife Sue Miller, although he replaced this habit with smoking marijuana.^[13] After releasing Still Feel Gone, the band formed a friendship with Peter Buck of R.E.M., who produced their third album March 16–20, 1992 for free.^[13] Uncle Tupelo left the Rockville label in favor of Sire Records (Warner) later in 1992 because Rockville refused to pay the band any royalties for their albums.^[14] After the signing, Max Johnston and John Stirratt joined the band as Mike Heidorn was replaced by Bill Belzer who was later replaced by Ken Coomer.^[15] The five-piece band recorded Anodyne, which sold over 150,000 copies and debuted at number 18 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart, but was the last album Uncle Tupelo released.^[16]^[17]

Breakup [link]

In January 1994, Farrar called Tony Margherita to tell him that the band was breaking up, saying that he was not having any fun in the band anymore and was not getting along with Tweedy. Tweedy was enraged that Farrar decided to break up the band without notifying him, and this led to a series of harsh verbal exchanges. Farrar and Tweedy agreed to a final Uncle Tupelo tour, but the concerts were marred by the two not participating in each other's songs. The band decided to play Tweedy's "The Long Cut" on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, which further distanced Farrar and Tweedy.^[18] Farrar began to assemble a new band named Son Volt with Mike Heidorn, bassist Jim Boquist, and his brother Dave Boquist. At the same time, Jeff Tweedy formed Wilco with Stirratt, Johnston, and Coomer.^[19]

Wilco (1995–present)[link]

Main article: Wilco

Tweedy singing with Wilco in 2007

Wilco was signed to Reprise Records (Warner) and began recording A.M. almost as soon as the band was formed.^[20] After recording, Tweedy was introduced to Jay Bennett, who then joined the band. Also during this time, Tweedy quit smoking marijuana after a particularly bad experience with some cannabis brownies.^[21] A.M. did not fare as well commercially in comparison to Son Volt's first album, only reaching number 27 on the Heatseekers chart while Son Volt's debut Trace hit the Billboard 200.^[22]^[23] Dan Murphy of Soul Asylum invited Tweedy to join him in a supergroup named Golden Smog with Gary Louris and Marc Perlman of the Jayhawks, Kraig Johnson of Run Westy Run, and Noah Levy of The Honeydogs. Under the pseudonym Scott Summit, Tweedy released Down by the Old Mainstream with Golden Smog in 1996.^[24]

Tweedy and Wilco began to explore new styles and broke from the style of previous recordings on the seminal sprawling double album Being There in 1996. Tweedy did not write music for many of the songs ahead of time, and welcomed unexpected sounds into the recording. Wilco recorded nineteen songs for the double-CD album, and wanted the label to release it with a retail price comparable to a single-CD release.^[25] Being There was a commercial success, selling 300,000 copies and peaking in the top half of the Billboard 200.^[26] Reprise records invested $100,000 in the single "Outta Mind (Outtasite)", but received little radio exposure.^[27]^[28] While on tour, Tweedy began to spend time reading books by William H. Gass, Henry Miller, and John Fante. As he read their books, Tweedy decided to place more of an emphasis on writing.^[29] Representatives in the A&R department of Reprise wanted a radio single from Summerteeth, and Wilco reluctantly agreed to a re-working of "Can't Stand It". The single was a top five hit on adult album alternative radio stations, but failed to cross over to a larger audience.^[30]

Before the release of Summerteeth, the daughter of the late folk legend Woody Guthrie contacted folk rock singer Billy Bragg, who in turn contacted Tweedy about recording an album of unreleased Woody Guthrie songs. Tweedy was indifferent to the idea of working with Bragg, but Jay Bennett's enthusiasm about the idea convinced Tweedy to get the band involved in the project. As a result of Tweedy's feelings on the political nature of some of the lyrics, Bragg recorded mostly political songs while Wilco recorded more neutral songs. Almost all of the songs that appeared on Mermaid Avenue and Mermaid Avenue Vol. II were recorded over a six day period in December 1997.^[31] The first Mermaid Avenue album and a second Golden Smog album (Weird Tales) were released in 1998, Summerteeth was released in early 1999, and Mermaid Avenue Vol. II was released in 2000. Tweedy received his first Grammy nomination when Mermaid Avenue was nominated for Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album in 1999.^[32]

[edit] Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Jeff Tweedy was invited to play at Chicago's Noise Pop festival, and was told that he could collaborate with a musician of his choosing. Tweedy chose Jim O'Rourke based on his fascination with O'Rourke's Bad Timing album. O'Rourke offered to bring drummer Glenn Kotche to the festival, and the trio formed a side project named Loose Fur. The other band members of Wilco had written a number of songs for Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, but Tweedy was unsatisfied with them because he believed that the songs did not sound like the ones he played with Loose Fur. Tweedy became such a fan of Kotche's playing style that he decided to dismiss Ken Coomer from the band in favor of Kotche.^[33] Tweedy had strong feelings about how songs should be sequenced, which clashed with Jay Bennett's focus on the songs themselves. Because Bennett was mixing the album, this led to a series of arguments about how the album should sound between songs. Tweedy asked O'Rourke to remix several songs on the album that had been mixed by Bennett, which caused tensions within the band to escalate. The album was completed in June 2001, and Tweedy was insistent that it was in its final form.^[34]^[35] Tweedy also fired Jay Bennett around this time, believing (according to Jay Bennett) that Wilco should only have one core member.^[34] The band maintains that the firing of Jay Bennett was a collective decision.

Reprise Record's parent company Time Warner merged with America Online in 2001, and the recording company was asked to cut costs. Howie Klein, the CEO of Reprise Records, considered Wilco to be one of the label's core bands, but was offered a lucrative buy-out by AOL Time Warner. Reprise did not consider the album commercially viable and was not interested in releasing the album. David Kahne (Head of A&R) agreed to release Wilco from Reprise records under the condition that Wilco got to keep all legal entitlements to the Yankee Hotel Foxtrot album.^[34]^[36] After an article in the Chicago Tribune publicly described these managerial practices, CEO Gary Briggs quit.^[37] Shortly after leaving the label, Briggs remarked:

“

It [dropping Wilco from the label] should never have happened. One of the most embarrassing moments in my career at Warner Brothers was the day they let Wilco go. It broke my heart, and it told me that I no longer have a home there.^[37]

”

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot was originally scheduled to be released on Reprise on September 11, 2001, prior to the band's departure from Reprise. Seven days later, Tweedy decided that he would stream the entirety of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot on Wilco's official website.^[38] Over thirty record labels offered to release Yankee Hotel Foxtrot after the departure from Reprise was official.^[39] One of the thirty was Warner Brothers affiliate Nonesuch Records, who signed Wilco in November 2001. AOL Time Warner paid Wilco to make the album on Reprise, gave them the record for free, and then bought it back on the Nonesuch label.^[40] The album was released on April 23, 2002 to significant critical acclaim, including being named the best album of the year by The Village Voice.^[41]^[42] The album became the biggest hit of Jeff Tweedy's career and was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America for selling over 500,000 copies.^[43]

[edit] A Ghost Is Born and side projects

Scott McCaughey contacted Tweedy about recording an album together for a The Minus 5 release. They scheduled a meeting for September 11, 2001, but were reluctant to enter the recording studio after the terrorist attacks. At night, McCaughey and Tweedy decided to begin recording songs as a way to calm down. A few more tracks were later added to the album with the rest of Wilco, and it was released with the name Down with Wilco in 2003.^[44]

In November 2003, Wilco began recording a fifth studio album. Unlike their previous albums, all of the songs were originally performed in the studio and then later adapted for playing at concerts. Wilco released A Ghost Is Born on June 22, 2004, and it attained a top ten peak on the Billboard 200.^[45] The album was awarded with Grammy Awards for Best Alternative Music Album and Best Recording Package in 2005.^[46] A few weeks before the album's release, Tweedy released a book of forty-three poems entitled Adult Head on Zoo Press.^[47] The following year, the band released their first live album, a two-disc set entitled Kicking Television: Live in Chicago, recorded at The Vic Theater.^[48] Wilco recorded twelve tracks for a sixth studio album entitled Sky Blue Sky, which was released on May 15, 2007.^[49] Sky Blue Sky debuted at number four on the Billboard 200, the band's highest debut yet. It sold over 87,000 copies in its first week of release.^[50]

Jeff Tweedy has performed several solo tours, on which he typically plays acoustic music. He also does The Song Simple Twist of Fate on the Soundtrack to I'm Not There.^[51] On October 24, 2006 Nonesuch Records released Sunken Treasure: Live in the Pacific Northwest, a live DVD by Tweedy. The disc includes performances and conversations gathered over five nights on Tweedy’s February 2006 solo acoustic tour, with footage from concerts at Seattle’s Moore Theater, Portland’s Crystal Ballroom, Eugene’s McDonald Theatre, Arcata’s Humboldt State University, and The Fillmore in San Francisco. The DVD was directed by Christoph Green and Fugazi’s Brendan Canty, the creators of the documentary series Burn to Shine.^[52]

Tweedy performed at the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear on October 30, 2010 in Washington, D.C. with collaborator Mavis Staples.

Musical style [link]

Jeff Tweedy's musical style has varied over his music career. Tweedy's vocal style is considered nasal, emotional, and scratchy, and has been compared to that of Neil Young.^[3]^[53] His first exposure to music was through gramophone records that his siblings left behind when they attended college, and he particularly liked The Beatles' White Album. Tweedy would frequently read issues of magazines such as Rolling Stone, and began to purchase punk rock albums such as The Clash's London Calling and X's Wild Gift. Belleville crowds did not respond well to punk music, so while Tweedy was a member of The Primitives they played covers of country songs at much faster tempos.^[54] When Uncle Tupelo formed, the band began composing its own songs influenced by Jason & the Scorchers and The Minutemen.^[10] Wilco's first album shared many musical similarities with the four previous Uncle Tupelo albums, but on Being There, Tweedy began introducing more experimental themes into his music. He claims that he wanted to rebel against the belief spread by the No Depression magazine that Wilco was primarily a country band.^[55] One of the most influential albums for Tweedy was Bad Timing by Jim O'Rourke, which helped to inspire Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and A Ghost Is Born.^[56] Tweedy uses a 1957 Gibson J-45 acoustic guitar, as well as a 1965 Fender Jazzmaster, and three different Telecasters, but his primary electric guitar is the Gibson SG Standard. He has vintage SGs from ’62 and ’65 as well as a 2007 Custom Shop model and a 2008 Custom Shop Vintage Original Spec (V.O.S.) that are all rigged with Maestro tremolo bars.^[57] He also has been known to use a Breedlove 000^[58] and even designed a limited edition 000 for Breedlove in 2007.^[59] His amplifier of choice is a Vox AC30.

Personal life [link]

Tweedy has been prone to chronic migraines throughout his entire life, forcing him to miss forty days of elementary school in one year.^[34]^[60] These chronic migraines caused Tweedy to become dependent on painkillers.^{[citation needed]} While he attempted to regulate his use of painkillers, he was never able to stop their use for more than five weeks. Tweedy attributes this to comorbidity with major depressive disorder and severe panic attacks.^[61] In 2004, he entered a dual diagnosis rehabilitation clinic in order to receive treatment for an addiction to prescription painkillers.^[62]^[63] Tweedy quit smoking the next year; John Stirratt claimed afterward that this significantly improved the focus of the band.^[64]

Tweedy is married to former talent booking agent Sue Miller. Tweedy first met Miller when he was trying to get Uncle Tupelo booked at Cubby Bear, where Miller worked. Miller opened a club in Chicago named Lounge Ax in 1989, and booked Uncle Tupelo for 16 shows over four years. Miller and Tweedy began dating in 1991 and they were married on August 9, 1995.^[65] Their son Spencer: Spencer Tweedy (born December 16, 1995) has been the drummer for pre-teen rock band The Blisters, not to be confused with Chicago powerpop band The Blissters, since December 2003. Spencer has also recently formed a new band called Tully Monster with friends Hayden Holbert and Henry Mosher. The band has played major events such as Lollapalooza, which Jeff and Wilco headlined, and also at the opening of Millennium Park in Chicago.^[66] On December 16, 2008 Spencer Tweedy joined Wilco on stage at Madison Square Garden to play drums on their song "The Late Greats," while opening for Neil Young. Before the song, the entire crowd sang "Happy Birthday" to Spencer Tweedy, as it was his 13th birthday.^[67] He also has a younger son, Sam Tweedy.

In early May 2009, former Wilco member Jay Bennett sued Tweedy for breach of contract.^[68] Bennett died later that month of an apparent accidental overdose of the painkiller fentanyl.^[69]

Selected discography [link]

Main article: Jeff Tweedy discography

Uncle Tupelo [link]

Year	Title	Label
1990	No Depression	Rockville Records
1991	Still Feel Gone	Rockville Records
1992	March 16–20, 1992	Rockville Records
1993	Anodyne	Sire Records

Wilco [link]

Year	Title	Label
1995	A.M.	Reprise Records
1996	Being There	Reprise Records
1999	Summerteeth	Reprise Records
2002	Yankee Hotel Foxtrot	Nonesuch Records
2004	A Ghost Is Born	Nonesuch Records
2005	Kicking Television: Live in Chicago	Nonesuch Records
2007	Sky Blue Sky	Nonesuch Records
2009	Wilco (The Album)	Nonesuch Records
2011	The Whole Love	dBpm Records

Notes and references [link]

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^ Kot 2004, p. 10
^ ^a ^b Klein, Joe (June 13, 2004). "Alt-Country Roads". The New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9502E0DE1331F930A25755C0A9629C8B63.
^ Kot 2004, pp. 10, 17
^ http://www.gumbopages.com/music/uncle-tupelo/text/heart_of_the_country.html
^ The band was also known as The Primatives due to a misprint on their business cards
^ Kot 2004, p. 18
^ ^a ^b ^c Mike Heidorn's liner notes for No Depression, which were included in the 2003 re-issue of the album. An online transcription can be found here.
^ Kot 2004, p. 22
^ ^a ^b Kot 2004, pp. 24–26
^ "No Depression: Surveying the Past, Present, and Future of American Music". http://www.nodepression.net/. Last accessed December 18, 2006.
^ Durchholz, Daniel (November 1993). "Are You Ready For The Country?". Request Magazine. http://www.gumbopages.com/music/uncle-tupelo/text/are_you_ready.html.
^ ^a ^b However, after developing a dependence on marijuana, he quickly quit using it, as well.Kot 2004, pp. 51–53, 95
^ Kot 2004, p. 72
^ Kot 2004, pp. 74–75
^ "Heatseekers". Billboard. October 23, 1993.
^ Kot 2004, p. 80
^ Kot 2004, pp. 80–84
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^ Kot 2004, pp. 94–96
^ "Heatseekers". Billboard. April 15, 1995.
^ "Artist Chart History - Son Volt". Billboard. http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/retrieve_chart_history.do?model.chartFormatGroupName=Albums&model.vnuArtistId=141392&model.vnuAlbumId=686653. Last accessed December 29, 2006.
^ Kot 2004, pp. 105–106
^ Kot 2004, pp. 113, 116
^ "Artist Chart History - Wilco (albums)". Billboard. http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/retrieve_chart_history.do?model.chartFormatGroupName=Albums&model.vnuArtistId=118967&model.vnuAlbumId=740269. Last accessed December 29, 2006.
^ "Artist Chart History - Wilco (singles)". Billboard. http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/retrieve_chart_history.do?model.chartFormatGroupName=Singles&model.vnuArtistId=118967&model.vnuAlbumId=740269. Last accessed December 29, 2006.
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^ "Fugees phenom Lauryn Hill gets 10 Grammy nominations". Associated Press. January 6, 1999. http://www2.jsonline.com/enter/daily/0106grammys.asp?format=print.
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^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Jones, Sam. I Am Trying to Break Your Heart: A Film About Wilco (DVD), Plexifilm, 2002.
^ Kot 2004, pp. 197–200
^ Kot 2004, pp. 201–207
^ ^a ^b Kot 2004, pp. 208–209
^ Kot 2004, p. 225
^ Kot, Greg (August 15, 2001). "Wilco's shot in the arm". Chicago Tribune. Archived from the original on August 26, 2001. http://web.archive.org/web/20010826133635/http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/chi-0108150038aug15.story?coll=chi-leisure-hed.
^ Kot 2004, pp. 209–210
^ Sirota, Bent (April 22, 2002). "Wilco: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot: Pitchfork Record Review". http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/23177/Wilco_Yankee_Hotel_Foxtrot. Last accessed December 21, 2006.
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^ Kot 2004, pp. 220–222
^ D'Angelo, Joe (July 7, 2004). "Lloyd Banks' Hunger Debuts At #1; Brandy Settles For #3". MTV News. http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1489256/20040707/story.jhtml.
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^ DeRogatis, Jim (May 9, 2004). "Poetic license or verbal abuse?". Chicago Sun-Times. http://www.jimdero.com/News2004/May9RockPoetry.htm.
^ Kicking Television: Live in Chicago liner notes
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^ Josephson, Issac (March 31, 1998). "Jeff Tweedy: Lounge Ax, Chicago, March 26, 1998". Rolling Stone. http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/5920882/jeff_tweedy.
^ Sunken Treasure: Live in the Pacific Northwest liner notes.
^ Jones, Chris. "Folk and Country Review - Wilco, A Ghost Is Born". BBC. http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/release/m34h/.
^ Kot 2004, pp. 13–19
^ Kot 2004, pp. 110–111
^ Kot 2004, pp. 176–177
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^ "Breedlove's Jeff Tweedy Guitar". Premier Guitar. November 20, 2007.
^ Kot 2004, p. 50
^ Tweedy, Jeff (March 5, 2008). "Shaking It Off". New York Times. http://migraine.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/05/shaking-it-off/. Retrieved May 6, 2010.
^ LaGambina, Gregg (August 30, 2004). "The Wilco Interview". Filter Magazine. http://www.filter-mag.com/features/interior.46.html.
^ Devenish, Colin (April 6, 2004). "Wilco's Jeff Tweedy in Rehab". Rolling Stone. http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/5937295/wilcos_jeff_tweedy_in_rehab.
^ Kot, Greg (May 13, 2007). "Wilco pares down for simpler, more intimate work". Chicago Tribune. http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/arts/chi-0705111528may13,1,6133788.story?ctrack=1&cset=true.
^ Kot 2004, pp. 53, 96
^ Zorn, Eric (May 2, 2005). "Eric Zorn's Notebook: Blisstered". Chicago Tribune. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/ericzorn/weblog/archives/2005/05/blisstered.html.
^ "Spencer Tweedy, Boy Genius". http://www.rollingstone.com/blogs/smokingsection/2008/12/spencer-tweedy-boy-genius.php.
^ Lisle, Andria (May 14, 2009). "Is Wilco's Jeff Tweedy Living the Life He Sings About?". Memphis Flyer. http://www.memphisflyer.com/SingAllKinds/archives/2009/05/14/is-wilcos-jeff-tweedy-living-the-life-he-sings-about. Retrieved 2009-05-24.
^ Greg Kot (June 23, 2009). "Coroner: Painkiller killed ex-Wilco member". Chicago Tribune. http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2009/06/coroner-painkiller-killed-ex-wilco-member.html. Retrieved 2009-06-23.

References [link]

Kot, Greg (2004). Wilco: Learning How to Die (First ed.). New York: Broadway Books Retrieved on 2006-12-18

External links [link]

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Discography	No Depression Still Feel Gone March 16-20, 1992 Anodyne 89/93: An Anthology

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Studio albums	A.M. Being There Summerteeth Yankee Hotel Foxtrot A Ghost Is Born Sky Blue Sky Wilco (The Album) The Whole Love

Live albums	Kicking Television: Live in Chicago 07-13-09 - Keyspan Park - Brooklyn, NY 11-04-09 - HMV Forum - London, UK

Mermaid Avenue	Mermaid Avenue Mermaid Avenue Vol. II Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions

EPs	More Like the Moon

Singles	"Box Full of Letters" "Outtasite (Outta Mind)" "Can't Stand It" "A Shot in the Arm" "War on War" "I'm a Wheel" "What Light" "You Never Know" "You and I" "I Might"

DVDs	Man in the Sand I Am Trying to Break Your Heart Wilco Live: Ashes of American Flags

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Nels Cline

Background information
Birth name	Nels Courtney Cline^[1]
Born	(1956-01-04) January 4, 1956 (age 56) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Genres	Jazz, free jazz, post bop, avant-garde, free improvisation, alternative rock, experimental, noise
Instruments	Guitar
Years active	1977–present
Labels	Cryptogramophone, Nine Winds, Atavistic, Enja, Little Brother, Strange Attractors Audio House, Long Song
Associated acts	Quartet Music, Nels Cline Trio, The Nels Cline Singers, Wilco, Geraldine Fibbers, Mike Watt, G.E. Stinson, Vinny Golia, Carla Bozulich, Devin Sarno, Eric Von Essen, Thurston Moore
Website	nelscline.com
Notable instruments
1959 Fender Jazzmaster

Nels Cline (born January 4, 1956 in Los Angeles)^[2]^[3] is an American guitarist and composer with the Nels Cline Singers and Wilco. He was named the 82nd greatest guitarist of all time by Rolling Stone magazine in November 2011,^[4] and the 43rd greatest guitarist of all time by Spin magazine in May 2012.^[5]

1 Career
2 Personal life
3 Notable discography
4 References
5 External links

Career [link]

Cline playing a double-necked guitar with Wilco in 2010

Cline began to play guitar at age 12 when his twin brother, Alex Cline took up the drums. The pair developed musically together, playing in a youth rock band they dubbed "Homogenized Goo"^[6] and both graduated from University High School (Los Angeles, California).

Cline is known for his improvisational work and for the diversity of his musical projects, as well as his use of effects pedals and looping devices which give his music a distinct sound. He has played with jazz musicians Charlie Haden, Gregg Bendian, Wadada Leo Smith, Tim Berne, Vinny Golia and the late bassist Eric Von Essen, a longtime musical companion in the L.A. jazz group Quartet Music.

In 1983, Nels was asked by drummer Chris Mancinelli and bassist Steuart Liebig to join the early formation of BLOC. The trio developed musical ideas for about a year. At this point they added another guitarist NIcholas Kirgo and vocalist Camille Henry. The quintet became a Los Angeles club favorite and garnered much praise from the local press and media. Practically every major label was interested at some point but no major label seemed to have a clue how to promote the multi-talented group. In 1990 with Tony Peluso producing, they were signed with A&M Records after turning down a previous offer from Atlantic Records. The album "In the Free Zone" was released in early 1991. A&M at this point was in the middle of being sold to Polygram and there was little support at the label for the band. They were bought out of their 2 album deal and promptly dropped a month after the album's release. After 8 years of performing and recording the group decided to break up and move on.

Cline has also performed and recorded with punk rock bassist Mike Watt in his touring bands The Crew of the Flying Saucer and The Black Gang, as well as with members of Sonic Youth and country music legend Willie Nelson, and in the jazz/punk/improv band Banyan with Watt and ex-Jane's Addiction drummer Stephen Perkins. He frequently participates in jazz projects with his twin brother, Alex, however their first actual duo together was in Culver City, California, at their 50th birthday show.

Cline's first appearance on an album was on Vinny Golia's 1978 record, Openhearted, and his first work as a bandleader was 1988's Angelica. In the late 1980s, Cline formed the Nels Cline Trio, which featured his guitar playing complemented by Mark London Sims at bass and Michael Preussner at drums. The trio released several 7 inch demos and one album, before replacing Sims with Bob Mair at bass. This new trio released three albums before splitting up, featuring some of Cline's most melodic works, before he ventured into a freer and more minimalist territory in the decade to come. Shortly before the end of the trio, Nels recorded two albums, In-Store, and Pillow Wand, with Sonic Youth frontman and guitarist, Thurston Moore.

Nels was also a member of the Geraldine Fibbers and Scarnella with Carla Bozulich. He played on, co-arranged and produced her The Red Headed Stranger album guest-starring Jenny Scheinman, Scott Amendola, Devin Hoff and Willie Nelson, as well as Bozulich's Evangelista albums. Additionally, the two worked sporadically on performance pieces, album co-production/recording, countless tours adding up to hundreds of concerts and more during their 12 year collaboration.

In 1999, Cline paired up with jazz drummer Gregg Bendian to record a modern rendition of John Coltrane's 1967 album, Interstellar Space. On Interstellar Space Revisited: The Music of John Coltrane, Bendian and Cline reinterpret Coltrane's piece using their own distinctive approaches. He also participated in ROVA's Electric Ascension (2005), a performance of Coltrane's landmark large-ensemble recording Ascension (1965).

Cline's current outfit is the improv/free jazz ensemble The Nels Cline Singers, with which he has recorded four albums, Instrumentals, The Giant Pin, Draw Breath and Initiate, his most recent work as a leader. The Nels Cline Singers are currently signed with Cryptogramophone Records.

Another important project of Cline's has been the Acoustic Guitar Trio, a free-improvisation group with Jim McAuley and the late Rod Poole that specialized in microtonal improvisation.

Cline has performed on over 150 albums in the jazz, pop, rock, country, and experimental pop music genres. He continues to expand his audience as a member of the Grammy-winning rock band Wilco, which he joined in early 2004. He was later featured in the cover story of Guitar Player Magazine for his collaboration with the band.^[7] Cline appears on Wilco's albums Sky Blue Sky, Wilco (The Album) and The Whole Love, as well as the live album Kicking Television: Live in Chicago, and tours with the band.

In February, 2007, Cline was chosen by Rolling Stone Magazine as one of the Top 20 New Guitar Gods, and given the title "The Avant Romantic."

Currently, Cline is using the Schroeder DB-7 red amplifier built for him by Tim Schroeder of Schroeder Guitar & Amp Repair (Schroeder Audio, Inc.) in Chicago, IL.^[8]

In 2012, he will appear on a cover of the Tommy Bolin song "Dreamer" with Myles Kennedy.

Personal life [link]

Cline is married to former Cibo Matto keyboardist Yuka Honda.^[2]^[9] Their wedding was held in Honda's hometown in Japan in November 2010.^[2]^[9] They met through Mike Watt when he put together the group Floored By Four.^[2]^[10] Honda joined Nels Cline Singers for their live shows after having her input in their new album Initiate. Watt and Cline's other recent project band, Brother's Sister's Daughter for a tour and recording session in Japan for their second album.^{[citation needed]} Cline also joined Honda as a guest guitarist in Yoko Ono Plastic Ono band in some of the dates in their tour in 2010.^[11]

Notable discography [link]

Elegies (1980) (w. Eric Von Essen)
Quartet Music (1981) (w. Quartet Music)
Dressed for the Apocalypse (1984) (w. Rhythm Plague)
Ocean Park (1984) (w. Quartet Music)
Window on the Lake (1986) (w. Quartet Music)
Angelica (1988)
Summer Night (1989) (w. Quartet Music)
In the Free Zone (1991) (w. BLOC)
Silencer (1992) (w. Nels Cline Trio)
Ball-hog or Tugboat? (1995) (w. Mike Watt)
Ground (1995) (w. Nels Cline Trio)
Chest (1996) (w. Nels Cline Trio)
Banyan (1997) (w. Banyan)
Butch (1997) (w. Geraldine Fibbers)
Contemplating the Engine Room (1997) (w. Mike Watt)
In-Store (1997) (w. Thurston Moore)
Pillow Wand (1997) (w. Thurston Moore)
Sad (1998) (w. Nels Cline Trio)
Scarnella (1998) (w. Carla Bozulich)
Rise Pumpkin Rise (1998) (w. Devin Sarno)
Edible Flowers (1998) (w. Devin Sarno)
Interstellar Space Revisited: The Music of John Coltrane (1999) (w. Gregg Bendian)
The Inkling (2000)
Live at Easthampton Town Hall (2001) (w. Zeena Parkins & Thurston Moore)
Destroy All Nels Cline (2001)
Acoustic Guitar Trio (2001) (w. Acoustic Guitar Trio)
The Allure of Roadside Curios (w. L. Stinkbug)
Instrumentals (2002) (w. The Nels Cline Singers)
The Red Headed Stranger (2003) (w. Carla Bozulich)
Buried on Bunker Hill (2004) (w. Devin Sarno)
The Entire Time (2004) (w. Vinny Golia)
Graduation (2004) (w. Chris Corsano & Carlos Giffoni)
The Giant Pin (2004) (w. The Nels Cline Singers)
Out Trios Series, Volume 3: Ash and Tabula (2004) (w. Andrea Parkins & Tom Rainey)
Immolation/Immertion (2005) (w. Wally Shoup & Chris Corsano)
Banning + Center (2005) (w. Jeremy Drake)
Season Finale (2005) (w. Solo Career)
Kicking Television: Live in Chicago (2005) (w. Wilco)
Distressed (2006) (w. Zach Hill as Damsel)
Four Guitars Live (2006) (w. Lee Ranaldo, Carlos Giffoni & Thurston Moore)
New Monastery: A View Into The Music of Andrew Hill (2006)
Downpour (2007) (w. Andrea Parkins & Tom Rainey)
Sky Blue Sky (2007) (w. Wilco)
Draw Breath (2007) (w. The Nels Cline Singers)
Duo Milano (2007) (w. Elliott Sharp)
Suite: Bittersweet (2007) (w. Wally Shoup & Greg Campbell)
Nothing Makes Any Sense (2007) (w. Carlos Giffoni, Alan Licht & Lee Ranaldo)
Coward (2009)
Vignes (2009) (w. Acoustic Guitar Trio)
Red Feast (2009) (w. Stephen Gauci, Ken Filiano & Mike Pride)
Wilco (The Album) (2009) (w. Wilco)
Elevating Device (2009) (w. G.E. Stinson)
Stained Radiance (2010) (w. Norton Wisdom)
The Celestial Septet (2010) (w. ROVA & The Nels Cline Singers)
Initiate (2010) (w. The Nels Cline Singers)
Dirty Baby (2010)
Floored by Four (2010) (w. Mike Watt, Yuka Honda & Dougie Bowne)
The Veil (2011) (w. Tim Berne & Jim Black as BB&C)
The Whole Love (2011) (w. Wilco)
The Gowanus Session (2012) (w. William Parker & Thollem McDonas)

^[12]

References [link]

^ MetroLyrics – "You Are My Face" Songwriters: Nels Courtney Cline; Jeffrey Scott Tweedy
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Fusilli, Jim (2010-10-05), "Four Rock Nomads Unite for a Fleeting Tune", The Wall Streer Journal, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703859204575526452687024886.html?mod=WSJ_NY_Culture_LEFTTopStories, retrieved 2011-03-31
^ California Births, 1905 - 1995, Nels C. Cline
^ "100 Greatest Guitarists Of All Time". Rolling Stone. http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-guitarists-20111123/nels-cline-19691231. Retrieved 2012-05-26.
^ "SPIN's 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". SPIN. http://www.spin.com/articles/spins-100-greatest-guitarists-all-time?page=5. Retrieved 2012-05-26.
^ Hoinski, Michael (2009-05-08). "Nels Cline on Masturbation, Thurston Moore, and Wilco's New Record". The Village Voice. http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/archives/2009/05/interview_nels.php. Retrieved 2009-06-01.
^ *"Steadfast Inclinations". Barry Cleveland. Guitar Player Magazine. March 2005.
^ Drozdowski, Ted "How to Get Wilco’s Live Guitar Sound", Gibson.com, April 20, 2009, accessed January 31, 2011.
^ ^a ^b Gilbert, Andrew (2011-01-27), "Nels Cline and Yuka Honda treasure time together", The Seattle Times (Seattle, Washington), http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/musicnightlife/2014055168_cline28.html, retrieved 2011-03-31
^ Interview: Mike Watt talks about Yoko Ono gigs, Music Illuminati, 2011-01-27, http://music-illuminati.com/interview-mike-watt-talks-about-yoko-ono-gigs/, retrieved 2010-10-24
^ Tulich, Katherine (2010-09-30), "Musicians pay tribute to John Lennon and Yoko Ono", Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, California), http://articles.latimes.com/2010/sep/30/entertainment/la-et-john-lennon-20100930, retrieved 2011-03-31
^ As noted before, Nels Cline has participated in numerous projects and other bands. The albums listed above are a selection of notable releases from Nels' personal projects, bands, and collaborations. For a complete and comprehensive list of Cline's participation on various recordings, see Nels Cline Discography.

External links [link]

Official Website
Q&A about Cline's DIRTY BABY project
Schroeder Guitar & Amp Repair
Nels Cline on Ted Kurland Associates
The Complete Nels Cline Discography – from Little Brother Records; includes detailed descriptions of some of Nels's albums up to 1998
Nels Cline at the SASSAS/sound. concert archives
State of Mind - Conversation with Nels Cline - June 2007
Multimedia story with video of Nels Cline - April 2009
State of Mind - Conversation with Nels Cline - May 2012

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Nels Cline Mikael Jorgensen Glenn Kotche Pat Sansone John Stirratt Jeff Tweedy Leroy Bach Jay Bennett Ken Coomer Bob Egan Brian Henneman Max Johnston Jim O'Rourke

Studio albums	A.M. Being There Summerteeth Yankee Hotel Foxtrot A Ghost Is Born Sky Blue Sky Wilco (The Album) The Whole Love

Live albums	Kicking Television: Live in Chicago 07-13-09 - Keyspan Park - Brooklyn, NY 11-04-09 - HMV Forum - London, UK

Mermaid Avenue	Mermaid Avenue Mermaid Avenue Vol. II Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions

EPs	More Like the Moon

Singles	"Box Full of Letters" "Outtasite (Outta Mind)" "Can't Stand It" "A Shot in the Arm" "War on War" "I'm a Wheel" "What Light" "You Never Know" "You and I" "I Might"

DVDs	Man in the Sand I Am Trying to Break Your Heart Wilco Live: Ashes of American Flags

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Nick Lowe
Lowe performing at the Kursaal in November 2008
Background information
Birth name	Nicholas Drain Lowe
Born	(1949-03-24) 24 March 1949 (age 63) Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England
Genres	Rock, pub rock, New Wave,^[1] Power Pop^[1]
Occupations	Musician, singer-songwriter
Instruments	Vocals, guitar, piano/keyboards, bass
Years active	1966–present
Labels	Columbia Records, Demon Records, F-Beat Records, Radar Records, Reprise Records, Upstart Records, Yep Roc Records, Stiff Records, Proper Records (current).
Associated acts	Brinsley Schwarz, Rockpile, Elvis Costello, The Attractions, The Imposters, Huey Lewis and the News, Noise To Go, The Cowboy Outfit, Johnny Cash, Little Village, Bill Kirchen
Website	nicklowe.net

Nicholas Drain "Nick" Lowe (born 24 March 1949), is an English singer-songwriter, musician and producer.

A pivotal figure in UK pub rock, punk rock and new wave,^[1]^[2] Lowe has recorded a string of well-reviewed solo albums. Along with vocals, Lowe plays guitar, bass guitar, piano and harmonica. He is best known for his songs "Cruel to Be Kind" (a US Top 40 single), and "I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass" (a top 10 UK hit), as well as his production work with Elvis Costello, Graham Parker, and others. Lowe also wrote "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding", a hit for Costello.^[3] He currently lives in Brentford, London, England.

1 Career history
2 Influence
3 Biography
4 Discography
5 References
6 External links

Career history [link]

Songwriter [link]

Nick's best-known songs (mostly known for cover versions) include:

"(What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding"
"The Beast in Me"
"I Love The Sound of Breaking Glass"
"All Men Are Liars"
"Cruel to Be Kind"
"So It Goes"
"I Knew the Bride (When She Used to Rock 'n' Roll)"

Producer [link]

Lowe produced Elvis Costello's first five albums, including My Aim Is True, This Year's Model, and Armed Forces. He also produced The Damned's first single, "New Rose", considered the first English punk single, as well as the group's debut album, Damned Damned Damned.

His early 'rough and ready' production style earned him the nickname Basher (as in 'bash it out now, tart it up later'). Upon moving from Stiff to Jake Riviera's Radar and F-Beat labels, Lowe became selective in his choice of production tasks.

Bands [link]

Main article: Brinsley Schwarz

Main article: Rockpile

Influence [link]

A 2011 article in The New York Times starts "The 40-year career of the English singer-songwriter Nick Lowe constitutes a paradox: the songs he has written are better known than he is."^[3]

Some musicians claim to have been influenced by Lowe. Alex Turner, of the Arctic Monkeys, said that he is 'blown away' and 'back to square one' by Lowe's songwriting^[4]

Biography [link]

Lowe attended the independent Woodbridge School in Suffolk^[5] and he began his musical career in 1967, when he joined the band Kippington Lodge, with his school friend Brinsley Schwarz. They released a few singles on the Parlophone record label as Kippington Lodge before they renamed the band Brinsley Schwarz in late 1969, and began performing country and blues-rock. Lowe wrote some of his best-known compositions while a member of Brinsley Schwarz, including "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding", a hit for Elvis Costello in 1979, and "Cruel to Be Kind", a solo hit for Lowe in 1979.^[6]

After leaving Brinsley Schwarz in 1975, Lowe began playing in Rockpile with Dave Edmunds. In August 1976, Lowe released "So It Goes" b/w "Heart of the City", the first single on the Stiff Records label where he was an in-house producer.^[6] The single and thus the label was funded by a loan of £400 from Dr. Feelgood's Lee Brilleaux. The label's first EP was Lowe's 1977 four-track release Bowi, apparently named in response to David Bowie's contemporaneous LP Low. (The joke was repeated when Lowe produced The Rumour's album Max as an 'answer' to Fleetwood Mac's Rumours). Lowe continued producing albums on Stiff and other labels. In 1977 he produced Dr. Feelgood's album, Be Seeing You, which included his own song, "That's It, I Quit". The following year's Dr. Feelgood album, Private Practice, contained a song Lowe jointly penned with Gypie Mayo – "Milk and Alcohol". Along with "I Love The Sound of Breaking Glass", "Milk and Alcohol" is one of only two Lowe compositions to ever reach the Top 10 of the UK Singles Chart.^[7]

Because the two main singers in Rockpile had recording contracts with different record labels and managers, albums were always credited to either Lowe or Edmunds, so there is only one official Rockpile album, which was not released until the waning days of the collaboration: 1980's Seconds of Pleasure, featuring the Lowe songs "When I Write The Book" and "Heart". However, two of the pair's most significant solo albums from the period; Lowe's Labour of Lust and Edmunds' Repeat When Necessary, were effectively Rockpile albums (as was Carlene Carter's Lowe-produced Musical Shapes album).

Lowe was quoted as saying that he had "escaped from the tyranny of the snare drum" in No Depression, (September–October 2001) when explaining his move away from regular pop music that would get played on mainstream radio.^{[citation needed]}

Other well-known Lowe songs include "I Love The Sound of Breaking Glass", "All Men Are Liars", and Cruel to Be Kind, co-written with Ian Gomm and originally recorded with Brinsley Schwarz, a re-recording of which was his only US Top 40 hit, reaching #12 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1979.^[6]

In 1979, Lowe married country singer Carlene Carter, daughter of fellow country singers Carl Smith and June Carter Cash and stepdaughter of Johnny Cash.^[8] He adopted her daughter, Tiffany Anastasia Lowe. The marriage ended in 1990, but they remained friends, and Lowe remained close to the Carter/Cash family. He played and recorded with Johnny Cash, and Cash recorded several of Lowe's songs.

After the demise of Rockpile, Lowe toured for a period with his band Noise To Go and later with The Cowboy Outfit, which also included the noted keyboard player Paul Carrack. Lowe was also a member of the short-lived mainly studio project Little Village with John Hiatt, Ry Cooder and Jim Keltner, who originally got together to record Hiatt's 1987 album Bring the Family.^[6]

In 1992, "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding" was covered by Curtis Stigers on the soundtrack album to The Bodyguard, an album that sold about 44 million copies world-wide.^[3]

A New York Daily News article^[9] quoted Lowe as saying his greatest fear in recent years was "sticking with what you did when you were famous". "I didn't want to become one of those thinning-haired, jowly old geezers who still does the same shtick they did when they were young, slim and beautiful," he said. "That's revolting and rather tragic." Rock critic Jim Farber observed: "Lowe's recent albums, epitomised by the new At My Age, moved him out of the realms of ironic pop and animated rock and into the role of a worldly balladeer, specialising in grave vocals and graceful tunes. Lowe's four most recent solo albums mine the wealth of American roots music, drawing on vintage country, soul and R&B to create an elegant mix of his own."

In 2008, Yep Roc and Proper Records released a thirtieth anniversary edition of Lowe's first solo album Jesus of Cool (entitled Pure Pop for Now People in the US with a slightly different track listing). The re-issue includes tracks from the British and American releases in addition to several bonus tracks. In March 2009, he released a 49 track CD/DVD compilation of songs which spanned his entire career. Proper Records released it in the UK and Europe, entitled Quiet Please... The New Best of Nick Lowe.

In September 2010 Yep Roc issued The Impossible Bird, Dig My Mood and The Convincer on vinyl for the first time, and after a one-night reunion concert with Elvis Costello in October in San Francisco,^[10] Lowe embarked on his first non-solo United States tour "this millennium." His backing band comprised Geraint Watkins (keyboards), Robert Treherne (drums), Johnny Scott (guitar) and Matt Radford (bass). In March 2011, Yep Roc reissued Lowe's 1979 solo album Labour of Lust.^[11]

Lowe played Glastonbury 2011, performing a short solo set of Brinsley Schwarz tracks on The Spirit Of 71 stage, where they played back in 1971, before heading to the Acoustic Stage for a full band show.

Lowe performed as an opening act for Wilco in their North American tour, September 2011. He performed solo with acoustic guitar.

Lowe is married to Peta Waddington, a designer and DJ. The couple have a son, Roy Lowe, who was born in 2005.

Discography [link]

Lowe performing with Rockpile in 1980

Studio albums [link]

Jesus of Cool (1978, UK) (released in the US as Pure Pop for Now People)
Labour of Lust (1979)
Nick the Knife (1982)
The Abominable Showman (1983)
Nick Lowe & His Cowboy Outfit (1984)
The Rose of England (1985)
Pinker and Prouder than Previous (1988)
Party of One (1990)
The Impossible Bird (1994)
Dig My Mood (1998)
The Convincer (2001)
At My Age (2007)^[6]
The Old Magic (2011) - UK: #66

Live albums [link]

Untouched Takeaway (2004)

Singles [link]

Release date	Title	Chart Positions				Notes
Release date	Title	^{UK Singles Chart}^[12]	^Australia	^Canada	^{US Hot 100}	Notes
1976	"So It Goes"	—	—	—	—	The first ever Stiff Records label single. The song was featured in the movies Rock 'n' Roll High School and Adventureland.
1976	"Keep It Out of Sight"	—	—	—	—	Holland-only release, b/w "(I've Been Taking the) Truth Drug".
1977	"The Bowi EP"	—	—	—	—	7" EP. Tracks: "Born a Woman" / "Shake that Rat" / "Marie Provost" / "Endless Sleep"
1977	"Halfway to Paradise"	—	—	—	—
1978	"I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass"	7	—	—	—	The first ever Radar Records label single
1978	"Little Hitler"	—	—	—	—
1978	"American Squirm"	—	—	—	—	B-side featured the Elvis Costello and the Attractions version of "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding"
1979	"Crackin' Up"	34	—	—	—
1979	"Cruel to Be Kind"	12	12	12	12	This is not a typo – "Cruel to Be Kind" coincidentally peaked at #12 in all four countries.
1979	"Switch Board Susan"	—	—	81	—	North American-only release.
1980	Rockpile: "Teacher Teacher"	—	83	31	51
1982	"Stick It Where the Sun Don't Shine"	—	—	35	—
1982	"Burning"	—	—	—	—
1982	"My Heart Hurts"	—	—	—	—
1983	"Ragin' Eyes"	—	—	—	—
1983	"Wish You Were Here"	—	—	—	—	US-only release.
1984	"Half a Boy and Half a Man"	53	66	—	—
1984	"L.A.F.S"	—	—	—	—
1985	"I Knew the Bride (When She Used to Rock 'n' Roll)"	—	26	—	77
1987	"Lovers Jamboree"	—	—	—	—	US-only release.
1990	"All Men Are Liars"	—	76	—	—
1994	"True Love Travels on a Gravel Road"	—	—	—	—
1993	"I Live on a Battlefield"	—	—	—	—
1997	"You Inspire Me"	—	—	—	—
2001	"She's Got Soul"	—	—	—	—

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EPs [link]

Bowi, 7" 45 rpm (Stiff 1977)
Nick Lowe & Dave Edmunds Sing the Everly Brothers, 7" 33⅓ rpm (F-Beat/Columbia 1980)^[6]

Compilation albums [link]

A Bunch of Stiff Records (One track, "I Love My Label")
Live Stiffs Live (1978) (Nick Lowe's Last Chicken In The Shop got two tracks, "I Knew the Bride (When She Used to Rock 'n' Roll)" and "Let's Eat", on this live compilation of the first Stiff Records' tour.)
16 All Time Lowes (1984)
Nick's Knack (1986)
Basher: The Best of Nick Lowe (1989)
The Wilderness Years (1991)
The Doings (1999)
Quiet Please... The New Best of Nick Lowe (2009)^[6]

Other appearances [link]

"Baby It’s You," duet with Elvis Costello, on single "The Only Flame In Town" by Elvis Costello and the Attractions (1984)
"In The Middle Of It All" on Adios Amigo: A Tribute to Arthur Alexander (1994)
"I’m Coming Home" on Rig Rock Deluxe: A Musical Tribute to the American Truck Driver (1996)
"From Now On" on Original Soundtrack: Mumford (1999)
"Shake That Rat," bass on album Sing Along With Los Straitjackets by Los Straitjackets (2001)
"Arrête Pas La Musique" on Evangeline Made: A Tribute to Cajun Music (2002)
"Don’t Let The Cold," backing vocals on album Sentimental by Tanita Tikaram (2004)
"It’s All In The Game" on Sweetheart: Love Songs (2004)
"Only A Rose," duet with Geraint Watkins on album In A Bad Mood by Geraint Watkins (2008)
"A Man In Love," guest vocals on album The Guest List by Martin Belmont (2009)
"Shelly’s Winter Love," guest vocals, duet with Paul Carrack, on album Word To The Wise by Bill Kirchen (2010)
"Changing All Those Changes" on Rave On Buddy Holly (2011)

Tributes [link]

Labour of Love: The Music of Nick Lowe (Telarc, 2001) (features Dar Williams, Tom Petty, and Elvis Costello, among others).
Lowe Profile: A Tribute To Nick Lowe (Brewery, 2005) (two-disc, 30 song collection featuring Dave Alvin, Foster & Lloyd, Ian Gomm, among others).
5 songs on "The Stiff Generation: If it Ain't Stiff it Ain't Worth a Tribute" (Groove Disques, 2002).
5 songs on "Happy Doing What We're Doing" (Freedom [City Hall], 2005) by Elizabeth McQueen and the Firebrands.

Uses in media [link]

"Without Love" from the album "Labour of Lust" appeared on the soundtrack of the film "Americathon".
"(I Love the Sound of) Breaking Glass" was used on the soundtrack album of the film "That Summer".
His recording of "So It Goes" appeared on the soundtrack of the Roger Corman movie "Rock 'N' Roll High School", which featured the Ramones.
"We Want Action" from the album "The Abominable Showman" appeared on the soundtrack of the film "Easy Money".
An original song "Little Cat (You've Never had it So Good)" was written for the British rock opera film "Absolute Beginners", which starred David Bowie and Sade.
The music video for "All Men Are Liars" was featured in The Brothers Grunt episode "The Ugly Gruntling".
His recording of "The Beast in Me" was used in the pilot episode of The Sopranos.
The song "All Men Are Liars" was featured in the Australian film All Men Are Liars written and directed by Gerard Lee and starring Toni Pearen, David Price and John Jarratt.

References [link]

^ ^a ^b ^c Cruel to be kind of old "The man originally known as one of the architects of the new wave sound of the '70s – having served as house producer for the legendary Stiff Records, as a pioneer of neo-power pop in his solo albums" New York Daily News 17 June 2007
^ Allmusic genre New Wave
^ ^a ^b ^c Larry Rohter (14 September 2011). "Return of the Man Who Used to Rock". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/14/arts/music/nick-lowe-back-with-a-new-album-that-old-magic.html. Retrieved 14 September 2011.
^ "The Arctic Monkeys’ Alex Turner gives props to Nick | It's OK to Like Nick Lowe". Itsoktolikenicklowe.com. 2011-07-08. http://itsoktolikenicklowe.com/arctic-monkeys-give-props-to-nick. Retrieved 2012-04-14.
^ Great British Life Norfolk Independent Schools. Retrieved 8 January 2012
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Strong, Martin C. (2000). The Great Rock Discography (5th ed.). Edinburgh: Mojo Books. pp. 588–589. ISBN 1-84195-017-3.
^ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 162. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
^ Tobler, John (1992). NME Rock 'N' Roll Years (1st ed.). London: Reed International Books Ltd. p. 329. CN 5585.
^ "Cruel to be kind of old" by Jim Farber, New York Daily News, 17 June 2007
^ "Nick Lowe: the true blue Basher shows up for a friend". The Fortnightly Review. 18 December 2010. http://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/2010/12/nick-lowe-the-true-blue-basher-shows-up-for-a-friend/. Retrieved 18 December 2010.
^ "Nick Lowe touring w/ full band, playing 4 NY shows (dates)". Brooklyn Vegan. 30 August 2010. http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2010/08/nick_lowe_touri.html. Retrieved 5 September 2010.
^ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 332. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.

External links [link]

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Studio albums	Jesus of Cool Labour of Lust Nick the Knife The Abominable Showman Nick Lowe and His Cowboy Outfit The Rose of England Pinker and Prouder Than Previous Party of One The Impossible Bird Dig My Mood The Convincer At My Age The Old Magic

EPs	Bowi Nick Lowe & Dave Edmunds Sing The Everly Brothers Live! On the Battlefield

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Singles	"So It Goes" "Keep It Out of Sight" "Halfway to Paradise" "I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass" "Little Hitler" "American Squirm" "Cracking Up" "Cruel to Be Kind" "Switch Board Susan" "Stick It Where the Sun Don't Shine" "Burning" "My Heart Hurts" "Ragin' Eyes" "Cool Reaction" "Wish You Were Here" "Half a Boy & Half a Man" "L.A.F.S." "I Knew the Bride (When She Used to Rock 'n' Roll)" "Lovers Jamboree" "All Men Are Liars" "You Got the Look I Like" "True Love Travels on a Gravel Road" "I Live on a Battlefield" "You Inspire Me" "Lately I've Let Things Slide" "She's Got Soul"

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