Tag: Jeff Tweedy

  • May The Circle Remain Unbroken: A Stribute to Roky Erickson, 2021 on LIght In The Attic

    May The Circle Remain Unbroken: A Stribute to Roky Erickson, 2021 on LIght In The Attic

    Posthumous tribute album for Roky Erickson by the same producer who assembled Where the Pyramid Meets the Eye, which was a 1990 tribute album that introduced my to many of his songs (though I also knew the 13th Floor Elevators LPs). Tracklist and participants: Plus a “Record Store Day only” 7″ flexi-disc single with Erickson…

  • Jeff Tweedy, Chelsea Walls (Soundtrack), 2002 on Rykodisc / 2022 on Omnivore

    Jeff Tweedy, Chelsea Walls (Soundtrack), 2002 on Rykodisc / 2022 on Omnivore

    Wonderful soundtrack featuring Jeff Tweedy collaborating with Glenn Kotche, around the time of supergroup Loose Fur just before Kotche become Wilco’s drummer. There’s also two great covers: Jimmy Scott doing a somewhat unhinged but wonderful version of John Lennon’s “Jealous Guy” and Robert Sean Leonard doing Wilco’s “Promising” (a bonus track that was in the…

  • Jeff Tweedy, Love is the King, 2020 on dBpm Records

    Jeff Tweedy, Love is the King, 2020 on dBpm Records

    Tweedy went into recording mode when Wilco’s tour was put on hold due to Covid-19 in April of 2020. Both Tweedy’s sons, Spencer and Sam, contribute to the album: Spencer primarily on drums and Sam (credited as Sammy) on harmony vocals. It’s a wonderful album full of great writing and classic Tweedy vocals. (Side note:…

  • Tweedy,  Sukierae, 2014 on dBpm Records

    Tweedy, Sukierae, 2014 on dBpm Records

    Tweedy, Sukierae, 2014 on dBpm Records Jeff Tweedy and Spencer Tweedy produced by Sam Tweedy via Barnes & Noble in Manchester NH

  • Norah Jones, Begin Again, 2019 on Blue Note

    Norah Jones, Begin Again, 2019 on Blue Note

    Norah Jones, Begin Again, 2019 on Blue Note Norah Jones with Jeff Tweedy,  Thomas Bartlett and others Via Down in the Valley Records

  • Mavis Staples, If All I Was Was Black, 2017 on Anti-

    Mavis Staples, If All I Was Was Black, 2017 on Anti-

    Mavis Staples, If All I Was Was Black, 2017 on Anti- Beautiful release produced by Jeff Tweedy and featuring him on “Ain’t no Doubt About it” Believe seeing her open for Brandi Carlile at Madison Square Garden was my last big pre-covid show. This is a must-have collaboration by two great artists

  • God is a Concept – Tweedy Channels Lennon

    God is a Concept – Tweedy Channels Lennon

    (via Sterogum, via TwentyFourBit) comes this video of Jeff Tweedy fronting Autumn Defense (with John Stirratt and Pat Sansone also of Wilco) in a rendion of the classic Plastic Ono Band song “God”: “I Just Believe in Me . . . Wilco and me.” Nicely done, on 12/8/10.