Posts Tagged ‘Jeff Tweedy’
Had some amazing below last night
2009/11/04Acuff Rose
2009/01/23Acuff-Rose Music was an American music publishing firm headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee.
Acuff-Rose was formed by country music performer Roy Acuff and Fred Rose, a major Nashville music-industry figure who had a respected ability as a talent scout. Many country performers had been badly cheated in the past with regard to copyright and other rights to their creations. Many were unsophisticated and naive and were taken advantage of by unscrupulous agents, attorneys, record promoters, record labels and others. When they started their publishing company, a condition to the gentleman’s agreement between Acuff and Rose was that “our company would be honest. The writers would always be taken care of. No one would act in a shady way”
Jeff Tweedy of Wilco pays homage to the strength of the catalog with the song “Acuff-Rose” on Uncle Tupelo‘s final record “Anodyne“. The lyrics include the line “Name me a song that everybody knows / And I’ll bet you it belongs to Acuff-Rose.”
Uncle Tupelo / Jay Farar = Wilco + Son Volt
2008/11/17From the book “Wilco: Learning How to Die”
When Farar and Tweedy finally confronted each other in their Belleville apartement a day later, emotions and misgivings that had been suppressed for the good of the band, for the sake of the music, came undone. Voices were raised until these two soft-spoken roomates were screaming at close range.
Tweedy : “Tell me to my face…Why do you hate me?
Farrar squared up with the person he’d been playing in bands with for twelve years. “You don’t know what it;s like to stand onsatge with somebody every night who loves themselves as much as you do.”
“You’re right, I don’t have any idea.”
…and that was the end of Uncle Tupelo
From Wikipedia:
Although Uncle Tupelo broke up before it achieved commercial success, the band is renowned for its impact on the alternative country music scene.[1] The group’s first album, No Depression, became a byword for the genre and was widely influential. Uncle Tupelo’s sound was unlike popular country music of the time, drawing inspiration from styles as diverse as the hardcore punk of The Minutemen and the country instrumentation and harmony of the Carter Family and Hank Williams. Farrar and Tweedy lyrics frequently referenced Middle America and the working class of Belleville.
Wilco : WIP, 7th Inning Stretch
2008/08/10Trying out a new song at Lollapalooza…you can also see the suits Jeff is referring to in the video below the video below …
That was a quite a letdown, Jeff didn’t sing, gave a boring interview, and admitted he’s a Cardinals fan.
….and Len Kasper “didn’t have a chance to stay til the very end” ?
