Wilco Announce Double Album Cruel Country Out Next Month — Hear “Falling Apart (Right Now)”
Do people really talk about Wilco as a country band anymore? I know they used to be lumped into the whole alt-country thing, but it feels like — nearly three decades into their tenure, and especially after experimental triumphs like 2002’s
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
and 2004’s
A Ghost Is Born
— they’re viewed more like a rootsy indie-rock jam band or something. I rarely see the “C word” deployed to describe them anymore, though they of course do make twangy songs from time to time...
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Do people really talk about Wilco as a country band anymore? I know they used to be lumped into the whole alt-country thing, but it feels like — nearly three decades... more info