-
2 weeks ago | 
jefftweedy.substack.com | Jeff Tweedy
Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Chit-Chat Check-In #120 • TranscriptI think I’ve stated many times, publicly, that all songs are on the side of creation. There are many things that are worth dismantling, in terms of how the world’s been put together by powerful people over a long period of time. But when you’re making art, you’re inherently opposing the desire to destroy, and you’re making something better.
-
3 weeks ago | 
jefftweedy.substack.com | Jeff Tweedy
Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Chit-Chat Check-In #119 • TranscriptHello from South America to South Carolina. I have a solo show here tonight and I’m looking forward to it. It’s always fun to just play an acoustic guitar and sing some songs without the rigamarole of amps and whatnot, even though I adore those things, as you all know. I came across this song the other day and I thought I’d share it with you.
-
4 weeks ago | 
jefftweedy.substack.com | Jeff Tweedy
Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Chit-Chat Check-In #118 • TranscriptHello from Buenos Aires. I woke up thinking about running for president. Some crazy dreams. Maybe some of you can form an exploratory committee and test the viability of that concept. I am not the right person for the job, but I do care a lot, and I do think I’m nice. And I do think that I’m better than what we have, and what we’ve had, for the most part.
-
1 month ago | 
jefftweedy.substack.com | Jeff Tweedy
Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Chit-Chat Check-In #117 • TranscriptWaking up in a foreign country thinking about my home country. I've been thinking about this song that has been around for a little while but hasn't made it on anything. Partially because I've had a tough time figuring out how to present it. Greed is my enemy. Hate is my enemy. Not caring, and cynicism, are my enemies.
-
1 month ago | 
jefftweedy.substack.com | Jeff Tweedy
Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Chit-Chat Check-In #116 • TranscriptI think it’s obvious why I picked a Bruce Springsteen song to cover today. I don’t really care what political persuasion you might be. Surely none of us can tolerate a president threatening someone for freely speaking. Among many, many other things that none of us should tolerate.
-
1 month ago | 
jefftweedy.substack.com | Jeff Tweedy
Spencer and I have some answers to your questions here. These were really thoughtful and lovely questions, as usual, from the Starship Casual clients. We really appreciate it, including the questions we couldn’t get to. OxO—JeffyAndrew: Wondering what it’s like traveling with your kid not as a family member, but as a fellow musician. Is the dynamic any different? JT: Not really. I think of Spencer as a fellow musician, on and off the stage, and on and off tour.
-
1 month ago | 
jefftweedy.substack.com | Jeff Tweedy
Here’s a quick cover of a new Bill Fox song. Great to have new music from one of my most reluctant heroes. Could only find a G harmonica so it’s in G, not A like Bill’s. By the way, someone at Apple hates harmonicas almost as much as Tom Schick. It sounds like a vampire harmonica trying to see itself in a mirror. I kind of like the audio effect, but it’s definitely discriminatory. Also, don’t come at Tom about his harmoniphobia. It’s a sensitive topic.
-
2 months ago | 
jefftweedy.substack.com | Jeff Tweedy
Hello from the road, everybody. Wilco is on tour with Waxahatchee. We played our first show together last night. It was lovely. The people in Tallahassee were really sweet. A Saturday night crowd could go one of two ways. They went the way that makes it possible to have a great show. While we were getting prepared to leave home, Starship Casual officer and moonlighting video editor Crystal made a recap of my annual benefit shows from the Vic Theatre last week.
-
2 months ago | 
jefftweedy.substack.com | Jeff Tweedy
A.M., Wilco’s first record, turned 30 the other day. I forgot to mention it, so I thought I’d share a song from the album today, a solo acoustic version of “Should’ve Been in Love” I just recorded on my phone at The Loft. I’m not sure that I would write “stinking” in a song these days. Let alone three times. But I think it gets a point across. If your life’s been stinking, it’s been stinking.
-
2 months ago | 
jefftweedy.substack.com | Jeff Tweedy
Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Chit-Chat Check-In #115 • TranscriptHi from I-64. Sammy, Spencer, and I are on our way to Charleston to join the rest of the Tweedy band, play Mountain Stage, and induct Daniel Johnston into the West Virginia Music Hall of Fame. In honor of Daniel, here are two versions of “Walking the Cow.” This is one of Daniel’s more well-known songs. It’s been covered by a few people.