Wilco? Wil-can't

Wilco played a show Wednesday night at Purdue. Needless to say, plans to attend fell through and I missed them - again. I've seen them twice already, but twice is not enough for one of music's most important rock bands. I saw them in '97 on a side stage with about 100 other people, then saw them again in '02 in Indy at the Egyptian Room. April and I went with our friends Mike, Racheal and Brian - all of whom are now in Arizona.
So, anyway, being that I was not going to be in attendance at Wednesday night's show, I listened to three different bands that Wilco lead singer Jeff Tweedy has been in.
So, I spun these discs on my iTunes all day ...
Golden Smog "Another Fine Day"
Wilco "SummerTeeth"
Uncle Tupelo "May 1, 1994"

Golden Smog is the occasional project of Tweedy, along with members of Soul Asylum, The Jayhawks, The Replacements and The HoneyDogs. "Another Fine Day" make me feel just dandy. You can feel the Jayhawks and Wilco sides morphing together on the playing and songwriting. Key tracks for this album, in my opinion of course, are "Beautiful Mind," "Hurricane," "Another Fine Day" and "5-22-02." Why? Beacause they're all good ;) The entire album is pretty solid. The playing on "Beutiful Mind" feels like an early 90s college radio tune. "Hurricane" is reminiscent of the Replacements dirty, raw pop era tunes that still beat anything considered pop today. "Another Fine Day" and "5-22-02" could easily fit into the Wilco repetoire. The rocky side of the 'alt-country' genre that the band fit into solidly with 'SummerTeeth' and 'Being there.'
Anyway, I saw that the next time Wilco is in our neighborhood is Nov. 24 and 25. The kind of annual post-Thanksgiving hometown shows the band does in Chicago. Again, I'll be missing them, but it's OK. I'll be on a beach in Hawaii, likely listening to the ocean lap the beach, while Wilco tunes play in my head.
-DJr.-