It's been about six months since Jeff Tweedy released his triple album Twilight Override, and despite various Wilco commitments, he's not about to stop promoting such a mammoth work. Monday night, Tweedy and his solo band — comprising his sons and other talented young Chicagoans — rolled into Jimmy Kimmel Live to perform "Lou Reed Was My Babysitter."
It's surprising that with 30 songs to choose from on the Twilight Override tracklist, Tweedy selected one that already got a reading on Colbert last year. But "Lou Reed Is My Babysitter" is worthy of the attention. A saucy, freewheeling track like that feels like it spiritually belongs on Loose Fur's Born Again In The USA, which happened to turn 20 last week. That's an important record to me, and you should listen to it sometime soon, but not before watching last night's Kimmel performance.
In other Tweedy news, I really enjoyed his new Substack post revisiting his Uncle Tupelo song "The Long Cut" 33 years later. I haven't actually heard the solo acoustic performance of "The Long Cut" behind the paywall because I'm not subscribed to his Substack (there's a reason we're encouraging you to subscribe to us), but Tweedy's reflections on his younger self's lyrics were pleasant and nourishing. Anodyne: another album to revisit soon.
