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Wilco's first single for new CD release pays homage to George Harrison, post-Wilbury's rock
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Wilco's Jeff Tweedy (Boston Globe photo)“You Never Know,” the first single off Wilco’s new self-titled CD gives more than just a nod to the late George Harrison, a forced smile from more than just another dark horse that Jeff Tweedy, as the moody indie provocateur, always seems to be.
Also offered for just a glimpse, in addition to the new happy rocker, which proclaims the doomsayers wrong, he hopes, and carries it off again, with that forced smile.
Because even with the Harrison-esque Hawaiian guitar swirls, you can tell at least Tweedy feels better singing those words, the heart in that bein’ enough to serve us well … there’s also a Woody Guthrie-styled tune, “Jolly Banker,” being offered up as contrast on the band’s Myspace.com page.
The new album comes out Tuesday, June 30.
Just as the band is bandwidthing it up with its plans for a new self-titled album and tour, some sad news out of Wilco world with the death of one of its founders, the versatile, Jay Bennett, who passed away in his sleep last month at the age of 45.
Wilco has become one of those bands that, like Radiohead and a few others, fans wait for each album and show as anxiously, apparently, as their next church service, according to religiondispatches.org.
In other Wilco news, the band has just released a new live DVD, “Ashes of American Flags” and also released the cover image for the new album, due out in June. This month Rolling Stone magazine did a track-by-track review of the self-titled album.
The band is planning for a summer tour, and so, to size them up, here are a few videos for your examination purposes to see how the band has evolved over the years.
An interview at Boston.com
A show review for the first wing of the tour from the San Jose Mercury News.
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