Deeper Down, Common Sense, and Bob Dylan’s Beard Walk into a Bar…

+ Chit-Chat Check-In #87: Kind of a Harpo Marx Character

Audio transcript

I’ve been re-learning my own songs for the Deep Cuts set at Solid Sound. Which isn’t that hard to be honest, because I wrote them.

I thought I’d share a few recordings I made of some of the songs I’m learning. “Deeper Down” in front of the paywall, and then “Common Sense” and “Bob Dylan’s 49th Beard” behind the paywall.

I recorded this Chit-Chat Check-In twice—Tom Schick is here, and he told me I could do better. And I don’t think I have. But I thought I would humor him. He’s kind of a Harpo Marx character. He doesn’t say a lot. But he’s got a horn he honks every once in a while.

OxO—Jeffy

Frog on pool cover. Not an aerial photo of giant frog terrorizing the Florida coast.

This Week in Wilco, Etc.

1995 / May 13: Wilco plays a 14-song in-store at the Rhino Records store in Westwood, CA. The set includes a cover of “I Wanna Be Your Dog” by The Stooges. Later that night they play the Galaxy Concert Theater in Santa Ana, CA.

2007 / May 15: Wilco’s Sky Blue Sky is released on Nonesuch Records.

2004 / May 19: At Otto’s in DeKalb, IL, Nels and Pat make their live Wilco debuts, as do the songs “Hummingbird” and “Hell Is Chrome.”

Deeper Down (solo acoustic)

Common Sense (solo acoustic)