Wilco makes an album for the love of country
“Stupid and cruel.” That’s America, says Jeff Tweedy on “Cruel Country,” the title track for his band Wilco’s 12th album. Born in Belleville, Illinois’s working class and raised making an unlikely marriage of hardcore and country with Uncle Tupelo, Tweedy has long worn left-wing politics on his songwriting sleeve. But here, he sounds bitter, even self-hating. Whatever happened to the patriotic socialism of Woody Guthrie?
Source: washingtonexaminer.com