Posted on Jun 6, 2022
Wilco releases an out-and-out country music double album with 'Cruel Country'
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IMHO they have a country vibe, I'll have to listen a bit more. TY for the share.
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."Scott Simon, Weekend Edition: So tell us please about Cruel Country. What made you decide to finally put your arms around country?
Jeff Tweedy: I still bristle at it a little bit because I'm not a big believer in genre. But at this moment in time, it felt like having sturdy shapes and song shapes to project my own uncertainty on to felt like an easier target. And these simpler shapes and forms, that's really all I'm referring to as "country." Some of the country music aficionados might think it's not country. I think a lot of people might think it's not country, but I also think that the music that people made when country music was forming its identity didn't think of what they were making as country music. I think that they were expressing themselves however best they could with whatever they could get their hands on."...
..."Scott Simon, Weekend Edition: So tell us please about Cruel Country. What made you decide to finally put your arms around country?
Jeff Tweedy: I still bristle at it a little bit because I'm not a big believer in genre. But at this moment in time, it felt like having sturdy shapes and song shapes to project my own uncertainty on to felt like an easier target. And these simpler shapes and forms, that's really all I'm referring to as "country." Some of the country music aficionados might think it's not country. I think a lot of people might think it's not country, but I also think that the music that people made when country music was forming its identity didn't think of what they were making as country music. I think that they were expressing themselves however best they could with whatever they could get their hands on."...
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