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Almost any article on Wilco is going to follow the “Jeff Tweedy: A Dude that’s Got Some Problems” formula to some extent, so I don’t mind that element of Greg Kot’s Wilco piece in the Tribune yesterday so much. He kept it mellow, didn’t make much of a big deal out of any of Tweedy’s issues, didn’t go too Barbara Walters on it. He even got a good quote from Tweedy on how selling actual, physical CDs is environmentally unfriendly, which not many musicians are talking about. But there’s a big “boi-oi-oing” moment a couple of paragraphs in where Kot starts discussing the recording of Wilco’s new album, Sky Blue Sky:
And while it’s true that most acts as big or bigger than Wilco have succumbed to the hyper-edited Pro Tools recording process, getting a good take down on tape isn’t that rare of an event. It happens in Chicago every day.
