"By whatever Wilco was supposed to be, or what people wanted it to be. But on Warm and Warmer, Tweedy sang more openly than ever. About his addiction and his eventual recovery. About his parents dying. About his marriage. He started playing electric guitar in a way he hadn't needed to in years because he'd grown accustomed to Nels Cline being right there beside him for well over a decade by that point."
"You started to see glimpses of a new persona taking shape, a far cry from the somewhat grumpy, troubled rock star he'd come to be known as - accurately or not - in the early aughts. Even if the songs themselves were still sad, there was a defiantly joyful quality to them that somehow canceled out all the darkness. The source of that joy started to come into focus around that time as well,"
Jeff Tweedy published a memoir and released his first two proper solo albums in 2018, initiating a notably productive creative period. The solo albums displayed unprecedented lyrical directness and marked a departure from recent Wilco material, with candid songs about addiction, recovery, his parents' deaths, and his marriage. Tweedy resumed electric guitar playing after years of relying on Nels Cline. A new, less grumpy and more defiantly joyful persona began to emerge despite the songs' sadness. A 2019 solo show with a backing group including his sons evolved into a long-term collaborative band. Twilight Override is a 30-song triple album.
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