New Wilco Album, WILCO (The Album) is finally out!!!!!

[Bluesberry]

Any Wilco fans out there!!! I just downloaded the new album from ITunes. I have been anticipating this one for sure.  I love Wilco, they are the new version of The Band IMO, The Band for the modern times.  I am going to listen all weekend. 

[Oldrottenhead]

just saw the dvd ashes of american flags , awesome

[Davo]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97IT0-EDTtw

I dig this song.  Can anyone ID the non-jazzmaster guitar and the bass?

[Bluesberry]

Now that is a great song Davo.  That is from their last record "Sky Blue Sky", great stuff for sure.

As for the new album, Wilco (the album), it is brilliant.  I have listened a few times now, and each time I like it more and more.  Production-wise it is stunning.  It is one of the best sounding albums I have heard in a while, everything is crystal clear.  It is a perfect example of how to record/mix/master an album IMO.  The songs are all strong and beautiful.  I love it.  Glad to have Wilco around making music like this in 2009, with so much shit out there nowadays.  Well done Wilco, well done Jeff Tweedy.

[Greeny]

What a cracking track that is. I don't own any Wilco albums, but I'd buy one on the strength of this song alone. Great stuff. Some real talent going down there...

[64Guitars]

I dig this song.  Can anyone ID the non-jazzmaster guitar and the bass?

Jeff Tweedy's playing a sixties Gibson Barney Kessel.

John Stirratt is playing a Lakland Bob Glaub Signature bass with a Hammon Dark Star pickup.

[guitarron]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97IT0-EDTtw

I dig this song.  Can anyone ID the non-jazzmaster guitar and the bass?

I dig this song.  Can anyone ID the non-jazzmaster guitar and the bass?

Jeff Tweedy's playing a sixties Gibson Barney Kessel.

John Stirratt is playing a Lakland Bob Glaub Signature bass with a Hammon Dark Star pickup.

are you sure that's not a gibson johnny a?

[64Guitars]

are you sure that's not a gibson johnny a?

The Johnny A has distinctive f-holes and it lacks the toggle switch on the lower horn.

When asked "What, in your opinion, is the coolest instrument in the world?" in this Rolling Stone interview, Tweedy replied:

"I have it. I have a Gibson Barney Kessel guitar. It has two cutaways that look like devil horns, but it's this huge hollow-body from the Sixties. My wife bought it for me for Christmas. It's cool."

[Bluesberry]

The reviews for this great album are starting to pour out into Cyberspace.  I agree totally with this review below from C.Jones.  It is a stunner folks.

BBC Review
This is still unmistakably a Wilco album.

Chris Jones 2009-06-22

For a band that could easily lay claim to the title 'the best live act in the world', Wilco's eighth album is a remarkably studio-bound confection. But fear not, this is by no means an overwrought, over-involved piece of sonic navel-gazing. After years bouncing between country rock, experimental noise and visceral rock pyrotechnics Wilco (The Album) sees the band balance Jeff Tweedy's writer-at-his-peak poise with some of their most charming pop rock ensemble playing.

By Tweedy's own admission, the album saw the six-piece using their collective (and not inconsiderable) chops to achieve something a little more 'crafted'. Partly recorded in Neil Finn's Auckland studio, it also seems that an element of the Kiwi star's Beatle-aping tendencies have rubbed off.

Second track Deep Down, with its ocean floor metaphors and sound effects could almost be their Yellow Submarine; while the most poptastic song on offer, You Never Know, not only features some of their sweetest close harmonies but also cheekily references George Harrison's My Sweet Lord.

But this is still unmistakably a Wilco album. Tweedy's voice beautifully covers all bases from intimate despair (especially when paired with Feist on the aching You And I) to breast-beating intensity. And for fans of the wilder, avant garde Wilco there's still Nels Cline's paint-stripping attack on the ascending maelstrom of Black Bull Nova; supposedly told from the point of view of a murderer.

It's a paradoxical mixture of warm and dour. Two songs seem to chronicle fraying relationships (You And I and One Wing). But the country drift of Solitaire details a return from the existential wilderness, possibly due to Tweedy's victory over addiction. He wants us to know how much he cares. And as with Sky Blue Sky's On And On And On, everything is sealed with a life-affirming ode to the transience of life, Everlasting.

So while Jeff may sing ''I don't care anymore'' the truth is obviously otherwise. As Wilco (The Album) flutters away on the birdcall beauty of Cline's loops, you feel like you've shared a special moment: one that you can always return to. As they say on the opening Wilco The Song, ''Wilco will love you." Best live band? How about plain old best band in the world right now?

[Greeny]

Oh... this has sealed the deal. Thanks, BB!