Wilco (band)



Wilco is an American rock band that was founded in 1994 by former members of Uncle Tupelo.

The band anno 2006 Jeff Tweedy, Nels Cline, John Stirratt, Glenn Kotche, Mikael Jorgensen and Pat Sansone.

After cultgroup Uncle Tupelo goes defunct in the early nineties, the main songwriters of that group Jay Farrar and Jeff Tweedy know in their own band on: Son Volt and Wilco.

After the appearance of the first plates "A.M." and "Being There" the band is regarded as one of the standard bearers of the alternative country music genre.

Daughter Nora by American folk singer Woody Guthrie lyrics that the band then asks her father before his death has left behind to provide music. Together with the English musician Billy Bragg Wilco delves into the studio and this produces the albums "Mermaid Avenue vol. 1 & 2" on. In april 2009, Wilco on internet a free cover from of the Woody Guthrie song "The Jolly Banker". To the downloaders was asked to make a donation to the Woody Guthrie Foundation, which preserves the legacy of the folk singer.

On the next album, "Summerteeth" from 1999, save the group a new musical path. There are still poppy guitar songs on the album, but in addition some songs more complex arrangements. There is room for (electronic) sound effects, samples, feedback and (on later plates) very complex percussion parties. On "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" and "A Ghost is Born" is this method still only but more extensive applied. The song has given way to music collages. Whether these numbers can also live, answered the band in 2005 with the release of the live double album Kicking Television, a recording of two concerts at home to Chicago.

In May 2007 the band released the album Sky Blue Sky, on which the guitar playing of Tweedy and Cline plays a dominant role. The plate is musically less experimental than his two predecessors.

The difficult emergence of the album "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" (2001) is captured in the documentary "I Am Trying To Break Your Heart" by filmmaker Sam Jones. ==Discography[ Edit] == ===Albums[ Edit] === ===Singles[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ===