INTRODUCING… WILCO COVERED
WELCOME to this month’s free 17-track CD, featuring brand-new covers of Wilco tunes. The band has always emphasised collaboration and cooperation, so they requested tracks from friends, associates, collaborators, even some of their kids’ friends. A few of these artists have played in the Tweedy band, others have toured with Wilco, and almost all of them have played the biannual Solid Sound festival in Massachusetts.
“One of the things I’ve learned in the past eight or nine years,” says Jeff Tweedy, “is what to do with a certain amount of celebrity. I’ve never been comfortable using it to get a table at a restaurant, but I did figure out that you can reach out to other artists, make friends, and tell them that you love what they’re doing.”
1 CATE LE BON
“COMPANY IN MY BACK”
Tackling a favourite tune from 2004’s A Ghost Is Born, Le Bon stiffens up the metronomic rhythm and adds slightly askew funk elements to one of Wilco’s catchiest choruses.
