Wilco
The band was formed in 1994 by the remaining members of alternative country group Uncle Tupelo following singer Jay Farrar’s departure. The group named itself ‘Wilco’ after the military and commercial aviation radio voice abbreviation for ‘will comply’ Wilco has released eleven studio albums, a live double album, and four collaborations: three with Billy Bragg and one with The Minus 5. They won two Grammy Awards for their fifth studio album, 2004’s A Ghost Is Born, including Best Alternative Music Album.
About Wilco in brief
Wilco is an American alternative rock band based in Chicago, Illinois. The band was formed in 1994 by the remaining members of alternative country group Uncle Tupelo following singer Jay Farrar’s departure. Wilco has released eleven studio albums, a live double album, and four collaborations: three with Billy Bragg and one with The Minus 5. They won two Grammy Awards for their fifth studio album, 2004’s A Ghost Is Born, including Best Alternative Music Album. Their eleventh album, Ode to Joy, will be released in October 2019. Their music has been inspired by a wide variety of artists and styles, including Bill Fay, The Beatles and Television, and has in turn influenced music by a number of modern alternative rock acts. The group named itself ‘Wilco’ after the military and commercial aviation radio voice abbreviation for ‘will comply’, a choice which Tweedy has called ‘fairly ironic for a rock band to name themselves’ The band’s music has evolved from a 1990s country rock sound to a current ‘eclectic indie rock collective that touches on many eras and genres’ Wilco garnered media attention for their fourth album, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, and the controversy surrounding it. They were dismissed from Reprise Records and sold the rights to the album to Nonesuch Records in 2002, leading one critic to say the album showed ‘how screwed up the music business is in the early twenty-first century’ Wilco’s most successful release to date, selling over 670,000 copies, is their fifth album, A Ghost is Born, which was released in 2004 and won the band two Grammy awards for best alternative music album and best country/alternative album.
The album peaked at number twenty-seven on the Billboard Heatseekers chart, considerably lower than the debut album of the band’s new band, Son Volt, which reached number thirty-fourth. The members of Wilco made its live debut on November 17, 1994, with guitarist Nels Cline, multi-instrumentalist Pat Sansone, keyboard player Mikael Jorgensen, and drummer Glenn Kotche. They made its debut on its debut album A. M. in November 1994, and another guitarist and keyboard player, Jay Bennett, joined the band with a keyboardist and guitarist to provide a second set of musicians for the live performance. The music on A M. was considered to be straightforward alternative country rock in what Tweedy later described as ‘trying to tread some water to some water’ The group has released four studio albums and a live album, with the most recent being A GhostIsBorn, which came out in November 2013. The last song on A.M. was the last song lyrically solely written by a member besides Tweedy, but only one submission—John Stirratt’s “It’s Just That Simple” —appeared on the album. In November 2013, Wilco released their second album, “The T. B. is Whipping Me,” which was recorded at Easley studio in June 1994.
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