Wilco

Many wonder why Wilco stopped playing Americana, but if you were Jeff Tweedy, maybe you'd be tired of people holding you responsible for a slew of college guys in cowboy shirts who sing like they had clothespins on their noses. This sequel album finds Wilco teaming up with Billy Bragg again to pay homage to Woody Guthrie.

On 1998's Mermaid Avenue, Billy Bragg and Wilco saved Woody Guthrie's legacy from Dust
Bowl sainthood. With the encouragement of Nora Guthrie, the folk legend's daughter,
Bragg and Wilco set some of the singer's unheard lyrics to new music, and the results were
revelatory: Woody, it turns out, was every bit as lusty, fallible and funny as the deportees,
migrant laborers and hobos he portrayed in song. Now comes the sequel, which... More >

See: Folksinger, Wordslinger, Start Me a Wong. (Grade - A-)