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March 20: Neil Young recorded Cinnamon Girl in 1969 – live & cover versions

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_message message_box_color=”mulled_wine” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-quote-left”]I wanna live with a cinnamon girl
I could be happy the rest of my life
With a cinnamon girl
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Neil Young opened up his second long-player Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (1969) with this concise, yet hard driving love song. It also effectively began his relationship with the backing combo Crazy Horse. Musically the track is an uncomplicated three-chord rocker and shows off Young’s infamous one-note solo motif during the instrumental ‘middle eight’ bars between the chorus and verse. ..
~Lindsay Planer (allmusic.com)[/vc_message][/vc_column][/vc_row]

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August 25: Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy was born in 1967 – Happy Birthday

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Jeffrey Scot “Jeff” Tweedy (born August 25, 1967) is an American songwriter, musician and leader of the band Wilco. Tweedy joined rockabilly band The Plebes with high school friend Jay Farrar in the early 1980s, but Tweedy’s musical interests caused one of Farrar’s brothers to quit. The Plebes changed their name to The Primitives in 1984, and subsequently to Uncle Tupelo. Uncle Tupelo garnered enough support to earn a record deal and to tour nationally. After releasing four albums, the band broke up in 1994 because of conflicts between Tweedy and Farrar.

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Bergenfest music festival day 2 – 2016

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Day two was “Wilco day”.

One of the best bands in the world definitely. And when Tweedy is in a good mood, as he was yesterday, Wilco delivers.

Wilco @ “plenen”, Bergenfest 2016

Wonderful concert.

I hoped for “Impossible Germany” or “Spiders”, and we got both! Wilco´s performance was outstanding.

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May 15: Wilco released Sky Blue Sky in 2007

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May 15: Wilco released Sky Blue Sky in 2007

But the paradox is that while Sky Blue Sky is the smoothest sounding Wilco album, it also takes the longest to absorb and understand.
~Michael Metivier  (popmatters.com)

..Wilco’s sixth studio album, Sky Blue Sky, sounds like the long-awaited follow-up to 1996’s Being There — while it lacks the ramshackle shape-shifting and broad twang of that earlier album, Sky Blue Sky represents a shift back to an organic sound and approach that suggests the influence of Neil Young’s Harvest and the more polished avenues of ’70s soft rock. Sky Blue Sky also marks Wilco’s first studio recordings since Nels Cline and Pat Sansone joined the group, and they certainly make their presence felt …
~Mark Deming (allmusic.com)

Impossible Germany (Live – from the DVD “Ashes Of American Flags”):

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The Best Wilco Songs (Stereogum, Paste Magazine, Popmatters, etc..)

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We love Wilco.

Here are some lists from different websites & off course our own.

First out: Stereogum.com

Stereogum – The 10 Best Wilco Songs

  1. “Misunderstood” (from Being There, 1996)
  2. “Ashes Of American Flags” (from Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, 2002)
  3. “Nothing’severgonnastandinmyway (again)” (from Summerteeth, 1999)
  4. “Dawned On Me” (from The Whole Love, 2011)
  5. “At Least That’s What You Said” (from A Ghost Is Born, 2004)
  6. “Hate It Here” (from Sky Blue Sky, 2007)
  7. “Via Chicago” (from Summerteeth, 1999)
  8. “Monday” (from Being There, 1996)
  9. “Jesus, Etc.” (from Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, 2002)
  10. “I Must Be High” (from A.M., 1995)

Misunderstood:

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Great Album: Wilco – Star Wars

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It’s kind of an extension of the thought process behind, I don’t know, staying in touch with some sort of wild energy as much as possible and some sort of an irreverence. But that painting of that cat hangs in the kitchen at the [Wilco] loft, and every day I’d look at it and go, “You know, that should just be the album cover.” Then I started thinking about the phrase “Star Wars” recontextualized against that painting — it was beautiful and jarring. The album has nothing to do with Star Wars. It just makes me feel good. It makes me feel limitless and like there’s still possibilities and still surprise in the world, you know?
~Jeff Tweedy (rollingstone.com)

In the album’s most carefree moments, of which there are many, he sounds at home in himself — never an easy move for one of rock’s top chroniclers of midlife man-malaise. “I belong to the stars in the sky,” he sings on “Random Name Generator,” making a blues boast out of spacey poesy and totally pulling it off. Give it up for the man. He’s got the Force by the spaceballs.
~Jon Dolan (rollingstone.com)

Random Name Generator (Live on KEXP):

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