Eye Glue (“Amazing Grace”) (work in progress)

Photo credit: Jamie Davis

As I said last week, I've been in the studio with Wilco, chipping away at some new music and making a new record. I promised I'd share a snippet of a work-in-progress, and here it is (down below behind the paywall).

This track is fairly representative of roughly a third of the material we’re sorting through. Started out as an instrumental, meditative groove. Then after a while, for some reason unknown, I started to sing "Amazing Grace" over it just to see if it would fit. It did! Sort of. In an eerie, disorienting way. Which is important. We like it when we discover things that unsettle us musically. Helps remind us to keep our minds open to the possibilities.