Tweedy elaborates: “The truth is, I started to mistrust the idea of lyrics saying everything around the time of A Ghost Is Born. I started to embrace the idea of the guitar saying a lot of things I was struggling to express at the time. I can read more into that now. The guitar gave me a way of letting the music deal with issues I was having in my life — like addiction and feeling distanced from the people I love — without having to put them into words, which I just couldn’t do. But it was also liberating to open up as a player and discover just what I could say on the guitar, and Nels has continued to encourage me to do that.”
Wilco start a European tour later this week before returning to the States in June. But right after our talk, Tweedy was headed back to the studio.
“I’m mixing a lot of songs that this version of the band — which is, I think, the line-up and sound I’ve always envisioned for Wilco, even if there were times when I didn’t realize it — has recorded. A lot of it’s improvised and it’s mostly instrumental. It’s also some of my favorite stuff Wilco’s done.”
WILCO + LOW | Bank of America Pavilion, 290 Northern Ave, Boston | June 28 | 617.931.2000
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