Friday Mix Tape: Songs Wilco Has Covered
Having just finished Greg Kot’s fantastic (though outdated) book on Wilco called Learning How To Die, I’ve got Tweedy and Co. on the brain. For this week’s Mix Tape I put together a mix featuring the original versions of six songs Wilco covers.
We start off with a song that hit Tweedy hard following 9/11 – Bill Fay’s Be Not So Fearful and continue with I Love My Label by Nick Lowe – a song Wilco recorded as the B-Side for their first self-released single. Next we turn to HT faves Steely Dan for Any Major Dude off of Pretzel Logic. From there, Gram Parsons gives us One Hundred Years From Now, which Wilco recorded for the Parsons tribute disc Return of the Grievous Angel. Finally, Big Star kicks down Thirteen and we end with I Shall Be Released off The Band’s Music From Big Pink.
Scott Bernstein
Scott Bernstein co-founded Hidden Track in October 2006 and was managing editor until taking over as EiC in January 2008. Scotty also writes for Relix Magazine and curates YEMblog.com.
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