I sleep underneath a picture that I keep of you next to me

Magnetized (solo acoustic) + CCCI #90

Audio transcript

Checking in from the actual Starship Casual. Maybe you can hear the generators running in the background of the audio above, keeping things relatively cool on a hot day.

I’m just outside our nation’s capital, en route to Solid Sound. There’s not a whole lot to report. I’m spending a lot of time in the cryo chamber, saving up energy for shows and rehearsals and whatnot. I have a daily agenda. I read a little bit, I write a little bit, rehearse a little bit, and then do my job.

Anyway, here’s “Magnetized.” I’m not sure if we’re going to be playing this on Friday night for the Deep Cuts set, but it’s just another one that I’ve been listening to and reminding myself how the chords get laid out and all that. I kind of love this song, even though it’s really a weird shape and has sort of a bizarre, surreal texture to it lyrically. But I’ve always felt like the chorus is honest and, I don’t know, longing. There’s always room for some longing, some yearning, I think, in a song.

Carry on, and maybe I’ll see you soon.

OxO—Jeffy

Andy, lookin’ like lichen.

This Week in Wilco, Etc.

1969 / June 21: Happy birthday, Pat Sansone!

2013 / June 21: Wilco plays an all-covers set (with the exception of their own “Kingpin”) at Solid Sound in North Adams, MA. The 27-song set is later officially released as Roadcase #18.

2004 / June 22: A Ghost Is Born is released on Nonesuch.

1998 / June 23:  Mermaid Avenue by Wilco & Billy Bragg is released by Elektra Records.

Magnetized (solo acoustic)