Jeff Tweedy

AmericanA to Z: Golden Smog

June 16, 2020 Clint West 0

Golden Smog is a loose and occasional association of musicians centring around various members of The Jayhawks, Wilco and Soul Asylum. On occasion they have also been joined by members of The Replacements, Big Star and […]

Mavis Staples “All In It Together” – Listen

April 6, 2020 Jonathan Aird 0

‘We’re all in this together” is a strap line that lost a little impact when it turned out that austerity was more for the poor than the rich, time will tell how true it is in […]

Jeff Tweedy’s house gets shot at

November 28, 2019 Mark Whitfield 0

The Guardian are reporting today that numerous gunshots have been fired at the Chicago home of Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy, with his wife, Susan Miller Tweedy, reporting hearing “seven to 10 shots fired at what sounded like […]

AmericanA to Z – Uncle Tupelo

October 10, 2019 Steven Rafferty 0

There’s no way we could make our first trip through the alphabet without a tip of the hat to the band that some folks point to as the start of this thing we call Americana. I’m […]

Wilco, Albert Hall, Manchester, 27th September 2019

October 7, 2019 Clint West 2

To say that Jeff Tweedy’s band have, over the years, become something of an Americana institution is to put the ‘under’ well and truly into ‘understatement’. Such is the band’s stature that their gigs nowadays might […]