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Chit-Chat Check-In #58: Cruel Country! + “Tonight’s the Day (Sun Soup)” & "Base of My Skull (anon lyrics)"

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This Week In Wilco, Etc.

2016 / January 16: At the Todos Santos Music Festival in Mexico, Jeff’s 17-song set includes guests Scott McCaughey, John Paul Jones, Pat Sansone, and Mike Mills. The set closes with a cover of “All the Young Dudes”.

2023 / January 20: Wilco’s Cruel Country is released on vinyl and CD!

1990 / January 21: Recording for the Uncle Tupelo album No Depression begins at Fort Apache Studios in Cambridge, MA. The album will be released on June 21, 1990.

Continue below the paywall to hear a second song, an early iPhone demo of “Base of My Skull”, which turned into “Bird Without a Tail / Base of My Skull” on the final version of Cruel Country.

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