by Tom Johnson
It took the late Jay Bennett a few years, but in 2006 he finally released the kind of album that made listeners sit up and think “Maybe Jeff Tweedy should have kept him around in Wilco after all.” Full of heartfelt ballads and Stones-influenced rockers, The Magnificent Defeat hearkened back to the Being There and Summerteeth years of Wilco, only stumbling on a few tracks where Bennett stretched too far for experimental sounds that don’t completely work toward the songs’ benefit. Minus those minor stumbles, this remains some extremely strong material.
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