wilco-i love them

as a matter of fact, in my pandora mix (for the past couple of weeks that is) i only have two artists (of course pandora mixes MORE than just the tw0) otis redding and wilco. it's a grand mix. it really is. try it, you won't be disappointed.

anyway, it perusing the nyt right now, i spied this jeff tweedy article (yup in the nyt). check it out

Torture-Free but Still a Rock Star



By DAVID CARR

SITTING at a Father’s Day barbecue on the day before a sold-out three-night stand at the Wiltern Theater here, Jeff Tweedy of Wilco was talking about his 13-year-old son, Spencer, a drummer in a rock band called the Blisters. Over the past five years Mr. Tweedy, the son of a railroad worker from St. Louis, whose toes touched bottom on the way to rock greatness, had come to an understanding about himself that applies to Spencer too: “I told him: ‘You are not a rock star. You get to do rock star things.’ ”

In his button-down shirt and with a Brewers cap hiding a mop of hair while he talked in a borrowed office a few steps from a friend’s party, he couldn’t have seemed less the alt-rock god. Still, it took him some painful years to find a place to stand between the nice guy at the barbecue and the bandleader at the Wiltern. .........................



pic: Kevin Scanlon for The New York Times

From left, John Stirratt, Pat Sansone, Glenn Kotche, Mikael Jorgensen, Nels Cline and Jeff Tweedy of Wilco at the Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles, where the band recently played three shows.