Wilco’s ‘Sky Blue Sky’ Was a Rare Instant-Classic Rock Album
Released 15 years ago this week, Wilco’s ‘Sky Blue Sky’ became my road music, an escape from the everyday nothingness that often drives us insane.
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Mavis Staples Wrote a New Ending For Her Father With ‘Don’t Lose This’
Mavis Staples completed an emotional, years-long journey when she finally issued leftover sessions with her dad Pops Staples five years ago today.
‘A Ghost is Born’ Presented Wilco at Their Most Earnest and Honest
15 years ago this month, Wilco released an album that sounded like someone at the bottom, looking up.
Coming back together ‘with some fresh perspective,’ Wilco announces 2015 tour dates
Nels Cline joins us to talk about Wilco’s plans, as the group announces 2015 dates and continues work on a follow-up to ‘The Whole Love.’
Wilco, “Blasting Fonda” from Alpha Mike Foxtrot (2014): One Track Mind
A newly released set of Wilco rarities gives us a chance to finally to live in a world were everyone has heard “Blasting Fonda.”
One Track Mind: Tweedy, “Diamond Light Parts I and II” (2014)
Another song emerges from Tweedy’s new solo album, along with a bonus track.
One Track Mind: Tweedy, “I’ll Sing It” from Sukierae (2014)
A sense of familial connection runs just as deep as this song’s darker complexities.
WTF?! Wednesdays: The Conet Project Recordings of Shortwave Number Stations (1998)
Shortwave number stations? WTF is that?! And why would anybody want recordings of them?!! The first part is easy to answer. The second part? Hmmm…let me think on it. You May Also Like: Days Between Stations – ‘Giants’ (2020)
The Friday Morning Listen: Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002)
I don’t know where this came from. I mean, OK, I do know…physically anyway. You May Also Like: Why Neutral Milk Hotel’s ‘In an Aeroplane Over the Sea’ Still Very Much Matters
Mavis Staples, “You Can Get To That” from One True Vine (2013): One Track Mind
With a smart assist from Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy, Mavis Staples transforms Funkadelic’s “Can You Get To That” from a sing-along slab of greasy-good uplift into this Americana-inflected groover. You May Also Like: Mavis Staples Wrote a New Ending For Her Father With ‘Don’t Lose This’
