Jeff Tweedy on His New Triple Album, “Twilight Override”
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This is the New Yorker Radio Hour. A co production of WNYC Studios and the New Yorker. This is the New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remnick. Amanda Petrosich is a music critic for the New Yorker. And recently she sat down in our studio to talk with and hear some songs from
Jeff Tweety One of the great songwriters working today. Jeff Tweety is probably best known as the lead singer of Wilco. The band you formed in Chicago in nineteen ninety four as pioneers in the alt-country wave. In recent years he's been working more often as a solo artist, putting out both books and records under his own name.
This month he's releasing Twilight Override, a triple album and a gorgeous thoughtful meditation. On time, aging, fear, and persistence. We're currently living through a moment in which cross-pollination between genres is incredibly commonplace. But for me when I first heard Wilco I was floored by the ways in which Tweety combined a kind of punk scrappiness
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