| Artist: Wilco |
Song Listing
2005 has been a very good year for Wilco. Their 2004 album A Ghost is Born earned the Chicago rock band two Grammy Awards. Two of their earlier albums, 2002's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and 1996's Being There, as well as the DVD I Am Trying to Break Your Heart, have been certified gold. And the band - Jeff Tweedy, John Stirratt, Glenn Kotche, Mike Jorgensen, Nels Cline, and Pat Sansone - have been heralded by critics everywhere: ""the world's most exciting live rock band"" said London's Sunday Telegraph, ""capable of nearly anything"" said Spin magazine.
Much has happened in the decade since Tweedy assembled Wilco following the breakup of Uncle Tupelo, the band he formed with Jay Farrar in Belleville, Illinois in the late 1980s. In the past ten years, Wilco have released seven albums (including two collaborations with the estate of Woody Guthrie). There has been a well-documented departure from one large record company and a well-documented arrival at a new (small but mighty) one. There has been the birth of the Internet, file-sharing, streaming, downloading, and free culture. There have been books, documentaries, and even a few Grammys and gold records, not to mention the personnel changes, the drugs, the depression, a near collapse, and a triumphant rehabilitation. But for all the tumult there has always been Wilco, a rock band fronted by Jeff Tweedy, creating music and playing it live for its audience, year after year."
| While Wilco's fifth studio album, A Ghost Is Born, didn't come equipped with quite the same artsy, experimental flourishes as the album's infamous predecessor, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, it made officially clear that the band's days in the world of alt-country had long since passed. Sky Blue Sku (2007) finds the band not so much in a holding pattern, but rather a state of artistic contentment. The album moves one step further away from Jim O'Rourke's atmospheric production style, and finds a pleasant mid-tempo groove that reminds one of PRETZEL LOGIC-era Steely Dan, mid-period Dylan, and even certain elements of John Lennon's solo work.
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Album Notes and Credits
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Glenn Kotche ~ Drums, Percussion |
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Jeff Tweedy ~ Guitars, Vocals |
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John Stirratt ~ Bass, Vocals |
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Mikael Jorgensen ~ Keyboards |
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Nels Cline ~ Guitars |
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Pat Sansone ~ Guitars, Keyboards, Vocals |
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Wilco - Sky Blue Sky - CD
By: Robert Burke
Blogcritics.org Reviews
Published on: 5/9/2007 6:50 AM
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| If you can truly be subjective about a new Wilco album, you’ll find yourself head over heals in love with this expansive, straight-forward gem of a record. However, expectations are high, and whining is inevitable. But don't let yourself be swayed by naysayers, revilers and malcontents. Sky Blue Sky is worth the investment of your money and your time....read the full review | |
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Wilco - Sky Blue Sky - CD
By: J.P. Gorman
Cinema Blend CD Reviews
Published on: 5/12/2007 4:29 PM
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| I'll go ahead and say it: Wilco is the best American rock band of the new millennium. I'm not basing that declaration on album sales or popular appreciation. I'm basing it on the rockers' actual music, the promise they showed entering the 2000s and the albums they've released since we've been here. Summerteeth showed them poised to change the idea of what it means to be an American rock and roll band; Yankee Hotel and Ghost delivered on that promise. ...read the full review | |
Bio
Wilco2005 has been a very good year for Wilco. Their 2004 album A Ghost is Born earned the Chicago rock band two Grammy Awards. Two of their earlier albums, 2002?s Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and 1996?s Being There, as well as the DVD I Am Trying to Break Your Heart, have been certified gold. And the band - Jeff Tweedy, John Stirratt, Glenn Kotche, Mike Jorgensen, Nels Cline, and Pat Sansone - have been heralded by critics everywhere: ?the world?s most exciting live rock band? said London?s Sunday Telegraph, ?capable of nearly anything? said Spin magazine.
Much has happened in the decade since Tweedy assembled Wilco following the breakup of Uncle Tupelo, the band he formed with Jay Farrar in Belleville, Illinois in the late 1980s. In the past ten years, Wilco have released seven albums (including two collaborations with the estate of Woody Guthrie). There has been a well-documented departure from one large record company and a well-documented arrival at a new (small but mighty) one. There has been the birth of the Internet, file-sharing, streaming, downloading, and free culture. There have been books, documentaries, and even a few Grammys and gold records, not to mention the personnel changes, the drugs, the depression, a near collapse, and a triumphant rehabilitation. But for all the tumult there has always been Wilco, a rock band fronted by Jeff Tweedy, creating music and playing it live for its audience, year after year.
