Wilco headed into their own loft in Chicago last December to record this tight little iTunes Session, a short live-show-without-an-audience, essentially.
Highlighting almost half of The Whole Love (Dawned On Me, Born Alone, I Might, Black Moon, Whole Love) and two sorta-oldies War On War and Passenger Side (well, okay, that one truly is getting on in age now), the real surprise here is Cruel To Be Kind with the Basher himself, Nick Lowe, taking over lead vocals. It’s kind of a neat payback of sorts — Wilco’s first single for the new album featured Lowe’s I Love My Label as its b-side, and now he gets to front the band.
There’s little doubt there’s some early Lowe catalog DNA in Wilco’s more pop-oriented moments, as much of an alt-country poster child as they may be.
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