Wilco on World Cafe, June 15th
Unless Wilco books a date here in the Phoenix / Tucson area before September, I have a good two and a half months left until I see them at the Austin City Limits Music Festival. To tide me over, it’s…
Wilco Video: You Are My Face
Wilco’s new CD, Sky Blue Sky, goes everywhere I go, and it’s really woven itself into my psyche. If you don’t have it, do yourself a favor. One of my favorites from the album has popped up in some live…
Forecast for Tuesday: Sky Blue Sky
For my favorite artists, I’m still a “have it / hold it” kind of guy when it comes to new albums. I have the need and desire to venture out to my local record store (can I still call it…
A Monday Mixed Bag
Happy Monday. Joy joy! A few odds and end here: WILCO streamed their new album, Sky Blue Sky, on their web site over the weekend. Pretty cool idea to hold a special listening party for their fans. I’m sure people…
Nels Cline: The Ickmusic Interview
I’m proud to present guitar man extraordinaire Nels Cline as the subject of Ickmusic’s premier interview. Nels has been churning out projects in the improvisational jazz, avant garde, and rock realms for over three decades. Nels can manipulate the guitar…
Ahoy! It’s Tweedy’s Sunken Treasure
Looking through the promo photos of Jeff Tweedy (great pics shot by Charles Harris), I’ll guess that Jeff enjoys these photo sessions about as much as a root canal. But sit for these photos he must because the promotion machine…
World Series: Home to Houston via Chicago
This Steve Earle tune has been zippin’ through my head for the entire MLB playoffs. So now that the Houston Astros have made it to the World Series, I figure I’d celebrate the moment with a very non-celebratory song: “Home…
My lungs are rattlin
1994 saw the release of Red Hot & Country, an AIDS-benefit album offering then contemporary versions of classic country tunes. One of the songs is a great version of Ernest Tubb’s 1937 song, “The TB is Whipping Me”, as performed…
I’ll kiss you for each leaf on every tree
In between 1996’s ‘Being There’ and 1999’s ‘Summerteeth’, Wilco sat down with Billy Bragg and a bunch of Woody Guthrie lyrics to write and record 1998’s “Mermaid Avenue”. The album is a journey through Guthrie’s wildly imaginative, erotic and brilliant…
