Chit-Chat Check-In #66: Mavis!
Happy Birthday to Mavis, the best of the best
Today is Mavis Staples’s birthday. It should be a national holiday. I believe everyone can agree on that. Thinking about Mavis today, I thought I’d share a version of a song that Nick Lowe wrote for her to include on the second album we made together, One True Vine. I’m also going to include a link to us rehearsing “The Weight” a few years ago so you can see how much fun it is to be in a room with Mavis. (As an added bonus Nick Lowe is there, too, being super cool. One might even say the Jesus of Cool.)
Happy Birthday, Mavis! Susie, Sammy, Spencer, Wilco, and I love you so much.
OxO—Jeffy
This Week In Wilco, Etc.
2000 / July 13: Wilco’s 16-song set at the Meadow Brook Amphitheatre in Rochester Hills, MI includes a cover of The Who’s “Won’t Get Fooled Again.”
2022 / July 16: At the Pitchfork Music Festival in Union Park in Chicago, Jeff sits in with Japanese Breakfast for two songs, “Kokomo, IN” and “Jesus, Etc.”
“Far Celestial Shore” (rough mix with guide vocal for Mavis Staples)
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