Jeff Tweedy - Warm - 2018

Jeff Tweedy / Warm

Жанр: Folk-Rock, Contemporary Singer-Songwriter
Носитель: CD
Страна-производитель диска (релиза): Mexico
Год издания: 2018
Издатель (лейбл): dBpm Records
Номер по каталогу: DBPM-007-18-CD
Страна исполнителя (группы): USA
Аудиокодек: FLAC (*.flac)
Тип рипа: tracks+.cue
Битрейт аудио: (lossy + lossless)
Продолжительность: 00:39:43
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Треклист

01. Bombs Above 02:15

02. Some Birds 03:41

03. Don’t Forget 03:30

04. How Hard It Is for a Desert to Die 04:50

05. Let’s Go Rain 02:57

06. From Far Away 03:11

07. I Know What It’s Like 03:46

08. Having Been Is No Way to Be 04:35

09. The Red Brick 02:36

10. Warm (When the Sun Has Died) 02:18

11. How Will I Find You? 06:06
All songs are written by Jeff Tweedy

Об исполнителе
Of the artists who rose to prominence as part of the alt-country scene of the ’80s and ’90s, none would have a higher profile or create a more eclectic body of work than Jeff Tweedy. As bassist with the iconic band Uncle Tupelo, Tweedy helped kickstart the fusion of punk, alternative, country, and folk sounds known as alt-country that would help spawn the rise of roots music and Americana. Their furious early recordings (especially their 1990 debut album No Depression) earned them a passionate cult following, and 1992’s March 16-20, 1992 and 1993’s Anodyne saw them embracing a more dynamic and nuanced sound without losing their strengths. The abrupt breakup of Uncle Tupelo led to Tweedy forming Wilco in 1994, and while their debut, 1995’s A.M., was firmly in the tradition of his previous band, their next effort, 1996’s Being There, was a daring, eclectic, and accomplished effort that gave them a new standing as one of America’s most-respected indie rock bands, a reputation they solidified with 2002’s Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. Wilco has since gone on to a long and successful career, but the creatively restless Tweedy has worked with a variety of other projects, including Loose Fur (a collaboration with Jim O’Rourke), Golden Smog (which featured him alongside members of Soul Asylum, the Jayhawks, Big Star, and Run Westy Run), the Minus Five (he appeared on two albums with Scott McCaughey’s group), and Tweedy (a band featuring Jeff and his son Spencer Tweedy), as well as working in the studio with Billy Bragg (Wilco recorded two albums of rediscovered Woody Guthrie songs with Bragg) and Mavis Staples (producing and writing songs for three albums by the Staple Singers vocalist).
Jeff Tweedy was born in Belleville, Illinois on August 25, 1967. The youngest of four children, he absorbed the musical influences of his brothers and sisters record collections, and when he was six years old, he asked his mother for a guitar. Tweedy was soon given an acoustic guitar, but he had a hard time playing it, and set it aside until he was 12 years old, when he committed himself to learning the instrument while recovering from a bicycle accident. When he was 14, Tweedy met Jay Farrar, who was a fellow student at Belleville Township High School West. In the early ’80s, Farrar formed a rockabilly band called the Plebes with his brothers Dade Farrar and Wade Farrar, and Tweedy was invited to join the group. Jeff and Jay were eager to push the band in a punk rock direction, which led to Dade leaving the group and the remaining members changing the name to the Primitives. The Primitives embraced a sound that blended punk with ’60s garage rock, but after several lineup changes that reduced the group to a trio of Farrar on guitar, Tweedy on bass, and Mike Heidorn on drums, they decided to shift their emphasis from covers to original material and changed their name to Uncle Tupelo. As Farrar and Tweedy became more interested in vintage country and folk music, the sounds informed their new songs, and Uncle Tupelo formulated an explosive sound that was fast, wiry, and impassioned as they took twangy melodic structures, stripped them down, and played them at 90 mph. In 1989, the band cut a demo tape that led to the CMJ New Music Report naming Uncle Tupelo the best unsigned band of the year, and they soon struck a deal with the independent Rockville Records label. 1990’s No Depression and 1991’s Still Feel Gone earned enthusiastic reviews, and through extensive touring Uncle Tupelo developed a passionate fan following, while 1992’s primarily acoustic March 16-20, 1992 (produced by Peter Buck) found them unplugging and digging deeper into their roots influences. The group landed a deal with Sire Records for their fourth album, 1993’s Anodyne, and the lineup expanded, with Tweedy switching from bass to guitar, Ken Coomer replacing Heidorn on drums, and bassist John Stirratt and fiddler and mandolin player Max Johnson helping to fill out their sound. Anodyne quickly became Uncle Tupelo’s most commercially successful release to date, but tensions between Tweedy and Farrar that had been growing during the recording of the album came to a head during the subsequent concert tour, and in January 1994, Farrar quit the band. A final tour only worsened the rift, and Uncle Tupelo played their last show on May 1, 1994.
Immediately after the Uncle Tupelo breakup, Jeff Tweedy and the other members of UT’s final lineup (except, of course, for Farrar) began working up material, and they adopted the name Wilco. (It was reported that Farrar asked Tweedy not to use the name Uncle Tupelo, and Tweedy responded with “wilco,” military radio slang for “Will Comply.”) By the end of June 1994, Wilco had gone into the studio to record their first album; the band hadn’t landed a lead guitarist yet, so Brian Henneman of the Bottle Rockets was brought in to play on the sessions for 1995’s A.M. After the album was released by Reprise Records, Jay Bennett became Wilco’s guitarist, and he soon began handling keyboards as well. During a layoff from touring with Wilco, Tweedy was invited to record with Golden Smog, a side project that also included Dan Murphy from Soul Asylum, Gary Louris and Marc Perlman from the Jayhawks, Kraig Johnson from Run Westy Run, and Noah Levy from the Honeydogs. To get around the members’ various recording commitments, they each used a “Smog Name,” using their middle name as their first name and the street they grew up on as their last name; Tweedy became Scott Summit for Golden Smog’s 1995 album Down by the Old Mainstream. Between Wilco’s extensive touring, Bennett’s increased input into the group, and his experience with Golden Smog, Tweedy’s musical ambitions grew, and Wilco’s second album, 1996’s expansive double-set Being There, was a critical success that moved in bold new directions and demonstrated to listeners that Wilco were hardly just another alt-country act.
In 1998, Tweedy appeared on the second Golden Smog album, Weird Tales, with the participants using their real names this time, and Jody Stephens of Big Star joining in on drums. His next major project found Wilco teaming up with U.K. punk-folk songwriter Billy Bragg to write and record new music for previously unpublished Woody Guthrie lyrics. With Wilco and Bragg receiving co-star billing, the album, Mermaid Avenue, also appeared in 1998, and more material from the same sessions was released in 2000 as Mermaid Avenue, Vol. 2. 1999 saw the release of Wilco’s third LP, Summerteeth, which essentially abandoned their country influences in favor of cool but artful indie pop. While the album’s sometimes bleak lyrics challenged fans, it was a hit with critics, and found the partnership of Tweedy and Bennett more productive than ever. That would change during the making of Wilco’s next album; drummer Ken Coomer was dismissed from the group shortly before sessions began (with Glenn Kotche taking his place), Max Johnson was gone after Summerteeth left him with little to do in the band, and Tweedy and Bennett were soon at a creative impasse that led to Bennett’s firing during the mixing process. Jim O’Rourke, who had performed live with Tweedy, was brought in to make sense of the material and perform the album’s final mix. Once Wilco turned in the completed album, Reprise Records, in the midst of a corporate shake-up, declared it too uncommercial and s