Wilco - Sky Blue Sky

TRACKLIST: CD) 1 Either Way, 2 You Are My Face, 3 Impossible Germany, 4 Sky Blue Sky, 5 Side with the Seeds,
6 Shake it Off, 7 Please Be Patient With Me, 8 Hate it Here, 9 Leave Me (Like You Found Me), 10 Walken, 11 What Light,
12 On and On and On,
DVD) 1 Intro, 2 Sky Blue Sky, 3 Impossible Germany, 4 Please Be Patient With Me, 5 Shake It Off, 6 Walken, 7 What Light,
8 Side With The Seeds, 9 Hate It Here, 10 Credits,

OVERVIEW: Wilco’s first studio album in three years, Sky Blue Sky, has been perhaps the most ardently awaited release of 2007. Eager fans had taken to shouting out pleas for information to bandleader Jeff Tweedy during his recent solo acoustic tour, and the web chatter has been virtually deafening. The Observer addressed fan speculation in an advance review, declaring, with unalloyed delight: ‘A great album from a band in their prime’. Sky Blue Sky is as eloquently straightforward as Wilco’s last studio recording, the Grammy-winning A Ghost Is Born, was daringly experimental. Tweedy’s lyrics deal forthrightly with romantic separation and reconciliation, their bittersweet quality giving way, as the album progresses, to a more uplifting, redemptive mood. Tweedy quite literally banishes the darkness on the penultimate track, the inspiring, gospel-tinged ‘What Light’ - the album’s first single - and concludes with a deeply affecting, ‘til-death-do-us-part lullaby, ‘On & On & On’. The deluxe edition includes a bonus DVD, which contains more than 45 minutes of footage of the band performing songs from Sky Blue Sky. The DVD also contains interview segments with all six band members. The film was directed by Christoph Green and Fugazi’s Brendan Canty, the creators of the Jeff Tweedy solo concert film ‘Sunken Treasure’.

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