These are songs that Wilco has covered, not the other way around. Nevertheless, I couldn’t not use this photo when I found it.
You may remember a few months ago when I posted 6 covers by and of Wilco. You may not. Either way, I recently stumbled onto some other excellent covers that Wilco has done, and felt I would be remiss (I’m pretty sure I’m using that correctly, right? I just remember my English teacher saying it a lot, and thought it worked well here) not to share them with you all. Watch ‘em, love ‘em, hate ‘em, vote for ‘em below:
*Note: some of these may be repeats from the previous ‘covers’ post, but that’s because they were too good to pass up. Tweedy doing Single Ladies? C’mon!
Wilco – Love And Mercy (Brian Wilson Cover)
Wilco - Any Major Dude Will Tell You (Steely Dan Cover)
Wilco - Color Me Impressed (The Replacements Cover)
Wilco – I Wanna Be Sedated (Ramones Cover)
Wilco - We Will Rock You (Queen Cover)
Wilco - Burned (Buffalo Springfield Cover)
Wilco – Broken Arrow (Another Buffalo Springfield Cover)
Wilco - Thirteen – (Big Star Cover)
Wilco – I’m Only Sleeping (Beatles Cover)
Jeff Tweedy – All The Single Ladies (um, Beyonce cover)
Jeff Tweedy - Fake Plastic Trees (Radiohead Cover)
Jeff Tweedy – Simple Twist of Fate (Bob Dylan Cover)
Wilco & Fleet Foxes – I Shall Be Released (The Band Cover)
More Fuji Rock videos have surfaced. Now you can really regret not moving to Japan when you had the chance.
Missed Wilco’s set at the Fuji Rock Fest July 31st? Me too. I’m totally bummed about it. Or at least I would be if I couldn’t live vicariously through those who were there with more of these excellent videos!
For more pictures and videos of the performance at the Fuji Rock Fest, put your cursor over here and click….now!
Here’s the set list for those of you interested (all of us):
Fuji Rock Festival Set list
I Might (new song)
Bull Black Nova
Side With the Seeds
I Am Trying to Break Your Heart
One Wing
Ashes of American Flags
War on War
Via Chicago
Impossible Germany
Born Alone (new song)
Handshake Drugs
Jesus Etc.
Dawned on Me (new song)
Shot in the Arm
Heavy Metal Drummer
I’m the Man Who Loves You
Late Greats
Red Eyed and Blue / I Got You (At the End of the Century)
Outtasite (Outta Mind)
I’m a Wheel
And here are some videos from the set for your viewing pleasure:
Some more sights and sounds from Solid Sound to brighten your (probably) dreary day.
Still jacked from Wilco’s set at the Fuji Rock fest? Still pissed that Wilco’s tour is a month (or more) away? Hopefully more excellent videos from Solid Sound Fest will help even you out, you roid-raged freak.
These are some outstanding videos by “Kaussie” (check out his awesome website at kiakaha.net), filmed at this year’s Solid Sound Fest.
Note: some are repeats from the earlier Solid Sound Fest post, but are of better quality.
Wilco – Handshake Drugs
Wilco – Spiders (Kidsmoke)
Wilco w/Neil Finn - I Got You (Split Enz cover)
Autumn Defense – Paradise
Liam Finn – (No name, but I’m calling it ‘Go, You Crazy Sum’bitch, Go!’)
Wilco – Walken
Wilco – I Love My Label (New!)
Liam Finn w/Glenn Kotche – Second Chance
Autumn Defense – We Would Never Die
JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound w/Jeff Tweedy - I Am Trying To Break Your Heart Pt.1
JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound w/Jeff Tweedy – I Am Trying To Break Your Heart Pt.2
Wilco w/Liam Finn – You Never Know
Autumn Defense – Every Day
Pajama Club w/Glenn Kotche – Little By Little
Levon Helm Band w/Wilco – I Shall Be Released
For more incredible Solid Sound Fest footage, check out Kia Kaha’s Vimeo page here.
You can play the guitar with your teeth you say? Good for you. But can you be Nels Cline and play the guitar with your teeth? Didn't think so.
In the same vein as The Tweedy Feed, I decided to create Cline Time, a source for the latest dirt on our favorite Cline: Nels. It’s kind of like the Frasier to The Tweedy Feed’s Cheers; kind of a spinoff, but very much it’s own thing (though I did try to get that delightful dog to appear in here. He said no.). Actually, it’s a lot more like The Colbert Report to The Daily Show. That’s a much better analogy; I don’t know why I said that other thing. Forget that I did, all right?
In any case, forgetting all sitcom spinoffs, many of us Wilco fans have gotten so caught up in the frenzy of anticipation and anxiety (what, you don’t have anxiety?) for The Whole Loveand Wilco’s upcoming tour, we overlooked another major album release earlier this summer: BB&C (Tim Berne, Jim Black and Nels Cline)’s live album, The Veil. To many of us Wilco fans, Nels Cline is the underrated, under-appreciated, incredibly talented guitar god from Wilco; however, what many of us don’t realize is that he is one hell of an experimental free Jazz-rock musician. And he’s out there. Like Sun Ra On Jupiter out there.
Don’t believe me? Take a pull on this: It’s called “Caved-In Heart Blues” from Cline’s 2007 album, Draw Breath. It has come close to replacing Neil Young’s For The Turnstiles as the song I will hear in my head just before I go insane. Which is pretty high praise coming from me.
Did you listen to it? Pretty out there, right? Yet it’s somehow very soothing. It might be the molasses-drippingly slow tempo. Which is kind of a good thing.
Here’s a pretty sweet video of Cline performing with the Les Paul Trio in New York at Iridium last Monday:
Awesome distractions aside, The Veil, the latest from Cline, Black, and Berne (or BB&C, as they’re also known, which I like because you can hold the Shift bar the entire time you type it in) has been getting some pretty great reviews so far, and judging from Railroaded, the free MP3 download from last month, (which you can download here), they all seem justified in their praise. Here are some reviews for the record so far:
The Veil is a rapturous performance from three of New York City’s most electrifying talents at the last vestige for improvisational music left standing in Manhattan following the Blue Condo-ization of the Lower East Side.
Cover from The Veil. Anybody else getting a Tom Waits-y vibe?
From the opening passages you can tell that these are masters at work. Behind the doors of their industrial space, they are wrapping Waterford crystals in sheet-metal and playing catch. They are sprinkling machine nuts in the gears watching it sputter and spit out twisted scraps and unanticipated treasures.
… [The Veil performances were] mostly two continuous improvised performances from musicians who have no fear of going into simultaneous improvisation that might scare other musicians back to law school. The kind of meeting of minds that both jazz and bands like Wilco need.
The combination of the three, which for a time went under the name Sons of Champignon, makes for an alchemical fusing of explosive out-jazz and apocalyptic rock punctuated by moments of delicate beauty.
This is Tinariwen. They are going to make beautiful music with Nels Cline. I'm going to buy it. Probably.
As if all this wasn’t enough for Nels, he’s also recorded an all-acoustic album called Tassili with a band called Tinariwen (here’s a little taste), who are, I kid you not, a group of nomadic Tuareg tribesmen who fought in Mali’s civil war. Also featured on the album are Tunde Adebimpe and Kyp Malone of TV on the Radio and the horn players of the Dirty Dozen Brass Band. Is it cool if I speak for everyone on this one? Well I’m going to: “If I don’t get to hear this soon, I’m going to do something drastic. Like cancel my Spotify subscription. Which I don’t have.”
You’ve got time for one more awesome video before you go to bed, or work, or some other website, right? Good. Because this one’s pretty wild. I will end this edition of Cline Time with a video of Nels Cline playing the (kickass) solo to “Impossible Germany,” which so far is the frontrunner for this week’s poll. Please enjoy:
As you may already know, the second annual Solid Sound Festival, a 3-day festival showcasing Music, Art, Comedy and Community, was held last weekend in North Adams Massachusetts. Wilco, The Levon Helm Band, The Autumn Defense, Morgan Murphy, Wyatt Cenac and Eugene Mirman were among the slew of performers from the music, comedy and art worlds. Reviews of the fest were generally great, despite a few instances of rain, which, one could argue, made the sets all the more bad-ass. Below are some videos from the fest, including one of Wilco playing “The Weight” with The Levon Helm Band. Yes, it’s as awesome as you imagined it to be.
Wilco – California Stars (Shot from afar, has a Funny People quality to it)
Wilco – Passenger Side
Wilco & The Levon Helm Band – I Shall Be Released
Wilco – Misunderstood (Short, in the rain, sing-a-long, awesome)
Wilco – The Late Greats
Wilco – At Least That’s What You Said
Liam Finn with Glenn Kotche of Wilco – Second Chance
Wilco – Can’t Stand It
Wilco – Jesus, Etc. (Sing along, why don’tcha?)
Wilco & The Levon Helm Band – The Weight
Wilco – Monday / Outtasite (Outta Mind) (Don’t watch if you weren’t there; you’ll get very jealous)
