And it’s not a good financial decision because it costs more money to start up each time you start a tour. EZRA KLEIN: Let me end us here, which is always the last question of the show, which is, what are three books you’ve read that have meant something to you that you would recommend to the audience? [1]: 113, 116 Being There was a commercial success, selling 300,000 copies and peaking in the top half of the Billboard 200. And I was curious, for you, if it’s — do you feel like you understand when you write these what ends up on the other side of the relationship, of the interpretive relationship? I do feel a responsibility to kind of check in with some things. But I also think there are maybe other organic ways to do that outside of commerce if you just try a little harder to come at things with a little bit more of an open mind and willing to accept that your first impression might not be correct. I think there is the phrase, an unlikely Germany. But over time, it’s just become something I see that really is easily overlaid over a lot of different types of lives and experiences. I’ve never really had the aptitude that I wish I had for playing guitar. I think people do it a lot of different ways that I don’t think are particularly creative or productive, and I would argue maybe not as good for you. But I really do kind of admire the sincerity. [1]: 53, 96 Sue was diagnosed with cancer in 2014. But I think it’s in something by William H. Gass. And it works every time. So I asked Jeff Tweedy to come on the show, talk about how he creates something every day and how the rest of us can too. But they were discovered through not asking that of myself, but just playing with language. You have Grammys. And in “How to Write One Song,” and then also in his memoir, “Let’s Go (So We Can Get Back),” he really makes a case, and makes it convincingly, that it is gentler motivations and conditions — a love of wordplay, a good night’s sleep, a regular space on the schedule — that really foster creation, particularly sustained creation. [1]: 88, 90. I love that. I have never really been successful in an academic environment. And I remember doing that too. [1]: 136 Representatives in the A&R department of Reprise wanted a radio single from Summerteeth, and Wilco reluctantly agreed to a re-working of "Can't Stand It". [1] Uncle Tupelo left the Rockville label in favor of Sire Records (Warner) later in 1992 because Rockville refused to pay the band any royalties for their albums. JEFF TWEEDY (SINGING): I should warn you when I’m not well, I can’t tell. And I think that’s good. [32] In June 2009 Wilco released their seventh studio album Wilco (The Album), followed by The Whole Love in 2011, Star Wars in 2015, Schmilco in 2016 and Ode to Joy in 2019. And now there are all these algorithms that are trying to tell me what I’m going to like. Belleville crowds did not respond well to punk music, so while Tweedy was a member of The Primitives they played covers of country songs at much faster tempos. But I do think it’s true to some degree that people like that myth for the built-in excuse it provides to not challenge themselves to dig deeper into their own thoughts and who they are. I think it’s a horrible copout. But on the other hand, you’ve got a band. I’ve never been — I’m an autodidact. Los Angeles Unified School District . Tweedy was enraged that Farrar decided to break up the band without notifying him, and this led to a series of harsh verbal exchanges. I think everybody kind of needs to check out a little bit. I get an idea for a song, I just go ahead and do it, even though I don’t think I’m going to like it. Established by the Wallingford United Methodist Church … That’s why poetry exists. As always, my email, ezrakleinshow@nytimes.com. But Joe Biden’s agenda, it will live or it will die in the Senate. Tweedy’s just simple joy in the creative process is infectious. I can’t do what they can do. Tweedy also said that music is a healthy distraction in such difficult times. Now you know they’re somewhere else. [1]: 197â200 [19] Tweedy also fired Bennett around this time, believing (according to Bennett) that Wilco should only have one core member. 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So tell me a bit about what it means to do a good job at being inspired. And you have, throughout the book, this very intense focus on the play, the process as the point. (Click image below). transcript. I loved it. EZRA KLEIN: The terrible, amazing movie, “The Room.”. And those are the times where you listen to your body and go to sleep and relax. William H. Gass — I like a lot of his writing on writing, his books of literary criticism. We’ve really made a point of trying to have lives and not go out on tour for six months. He’s played in Uncle Tupelo, released a bunch of solo albums, produced other people’s great records. But it’s also just — that’s only one way that we experience music. And my inclination when that’s the case is usually to not fight it. Buyers want flexibility and personalization. Or, is it something that’s true in your songwriting that is not true if I were just talking to you on the street. Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy Wants You to Be Bad at Something. I remember before we had the internet at home. JEFF TWEEDY (SINGING): Gwendolyn, when she starts to speak to a county police with a plastic cup between her teeth. I’ve never heard it put like that. EZRA KLEIN: Where did the phrase impossible Germany, unlikely Japan come from? It was unrelated, but it made me probably disappear into some associations on my end. Patrick Gaspard has been named president and CEO of the progressive think tank and CEO of the Center for American Progress Action Fund.. Gaspard was previously president of the Open Society Foundations, which he left in December after three years of leading the $18 billion foundations established by the billionaire investor George Soros. We are incapable of resisting it. Jeff Tweedy has performed several solo tours, on which he typically plays acoustic music. But there’s this whole other part of it, which is — maybe it’s not quite craft, but it is the process and the consistency that you bring to it. I’m aiming at things that feel true. [36] In 2015 the album Still by Richard Thompson was released. That’s actually part of the job, I think. And so that’s just like being kind of prepared, but also just making time for it as a practice. But as far as — that’s where I would stop, just kind of checking in, just kind of being aware of it. And one thing that was striking to me about it, Tweedy has spoken publicly, and it is part of his public mythos, about his struggles with mental illness and addiction. [59] In 2008, Spencer joined Wilco on stage at Madison Square Garden to play drums on their song "The Late Greats," while opening for Neil Young. JEFF TWEEDY: Thank you. 203 East Central Ave., Petal, MS 39465. Is that something that has taught you about tapping into these parts of you? [41] In November 2018 Jeff Tweedy released a memoir titled Let's Go (So We Can Get Back) and his first solo album of new material, titled Warm. And I’m no different. Early life. But a lot of times, the actual process isn’t that different. My ride’s here. The failures and cruelties of Trumpism are obvious, but why are progressives having so much trouble wielding power well in the places where they do have it? I mean, I don’t think that I’m just the things that I put out into the world. So then, what options are left? Maybe it’s totally fine. [18], Jeff Tweedy was invited to play at Chicago's Noise Pop festival, and was told that he could collaborate with a musician of his choosing. How do you get into that space where you’re actually using the associational part, as opposed to the, ah, shit, I got to take the dog to the vet, and if I don’t get this piece in today, and I’ve got — the endodontist keeps sending me a bill and I keep forgetting to pay it. I think if you look at it solipsistically, I used to believe that you could perfectly transpose the life of a rock musician over the story of Don Quixote. And sometimes, it does come out as having a much more direct feel. This is their extraordinary story. And it is harder the more I can’t turn off the part of my brain that is critical. Everything’s much more single driven and playlists driven. [1]: 225 Over thirty record labels offered to release Yankee Hotel Foxtrot after the departure from Reprise was official. [1]: 51â53, 95 After releasing Still Feel Gone, the band formed a friendship with Peter Buck of R.E.M., who produced their third album March 16â20, 1992 for free. And I’m quoting you here, that he’d sit and write a poem and then come upstairs half drunk and read a simplistic, heavily rhyming, but not entirely artless poem about the Alton & Southern Railway, or our neighbor who died, or something else that he’d been stewing about. Tweedy did not write music for many of the songs ahead of time, and welcomed unexpected sounds into the recording. It’s actually something I’ve been trying to rebuild over the past couple of years, where before if I got something — not before, but when I was younger — I gave it a chance, I think, because, as you say, I couldn’t buy endless CDs. Or I could do — I think there’s a little simplicity to that idea. JEFF TWEEDY: Oh, I think you would feel generative gains from it immediately if you’re in the right mindset. It’s just impossible to get to the bottom of it. [44] During the shelter-in-place Jeff Tweedy also wrote and recorded his third solo album titled Love Is the King which was announced to release on October 23, 2020[45] and wrote his second book titled How to Write One Song which was announced to release on October 13, 2020 on the E. P. Dutton publishing label.[46]. Real conversations about ideas that matter. 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