Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy discusses their new album Cruel Country, curating music festivals, indifference, criticism, and communication, when certain people die, country, Wilco, and music genres, fashionability and temporality, How to Write One Song and abstraction, the United States of America and local communities, the forthcoming Yankee Hotel Foxtrot box set, tour dates, other future plans, and more. Supported by you on Patreon, Blackbyrd Myoozik, Pizza Trokadero, the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, and Grandad’s Donuts. Support Y.E.S.S. and Black Women United YEG. Follow vish online.
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