Let's Go (So We Can Get Back)
Aufnehmen und Abstürzen mit Wilco etc.
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- $21.99
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- $21.99
Publisher Description
Let's Go (So We Can Get Back) - Jeff Tweedys lang erwartetes Memoir über Musik, Familie und Sucht
In seinem von Fans ersehnten Memoir schreibt Jeff Tweedy, Frontmann der Rockband Wilco aus Chicago, mit unvergleichlichem Humor und Tiefgang über seinen musikalischen Werdegang und sein Leben. Er spricht offen über seine Kindheit in Belleville, Illinois, seine ersten Auftritte mit der legendären Alternative-Country-Band Uncle Tupelo und später mit Wilco, sowie über seine Tablettensucht und Familie.
Tweedy gewährt ehrliche Einblicke in seine musikalischen Prozesse, teilt Geheimnisse und beweist, dass auch seine literarische Stimme überzeugt. Let's Go (So We Can Get Back) ist eine fesselnde Autobiografie, die zeigt, wie Musik Leben verändern kann. Ein Muss für Fans von Wilco, Indie-Pop und amerikanischer Musik.
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Alt-rock star Tweedy tells of his musical ascent in this sincere, affable memoir. Growing up in a small crumbling downstate Illinois town "where everybody knows who's cheating on who, and who's been out of work," Tweedy discovered music by following 1980s underground pioneers such as the Minutemen ("Punk rock was an exotic event happening somewhere else in the world"), haunting record stores, and finding like-minded neighbors such as future Uncle Tupelo bandmate Jay Farrar. Uncle Tupelo formed in 1987, but after seven years, Tweedy and the alt-country band split ways in, as Tweedy describes it, a passive-aggressively acrimonious way. Tweedy started Wilco in 1994 and eventually released 10 records, including Mermaid Avenue, a collection of Woody Guthrie songs that the band recorded with Billy Bragg. Throughout, Tweedy writes about his wife, Susie Miller (a Chicago club booker when they met), and touches on his struggle with anxiety and his addiction to Vicodin (it allowed him to write "and not fall into a heap on the floor in a fit of weeping and panic"). Tweedy will delight fans by sharing such tidbits as his favorite moment in the Wilco documentary and how a Noah's Ark analogy powered the Grammy-winning A Ghost Is Born album. Tweedy tells a wonderfully unassuming story of a music-filled life.
