Jeff Tweedy / Buck Meek
When:
Saturday, Apr 06, 2019 7:00p -
10:00p
Saturday, Apr 06, 2019 7:00p -
10:00p
Where:
Berklee Performance Center
136 Massachusetts Ave
Boston, MA 02115
Admission:
$37-57
Categories:
Music
Event website:
https://www.berklee.edu/events/jeff-tweedy-0
Jeff Tweedy recently released WARM, a solo album of all new material produced and recorded entirely by Tweedy at Chicago’s now legendary studio The Loft (with help from some of his usual collaborators—Spencer Tweedy, Glenn Kotche, and Tom Schick). WARM follows the acoustic retrospective release Together at Last (2017), and Wilco’s 2016 album Schmilco. The liner notes for WARM were written by George Saunders for the New Yorker.
Tweedy, currently on a solo tour of North America, has released his long-awaited memoir, LET’S GO (SO WE CAN GET BACK): A Memoir of Recording and Discording with Wilco, Etc. In the book, he writes candidly and compellingly about his past, his songs, and the people who have inspired him. It’s a portrait of an artist in his most reflective and creative state.
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Buck Meek’s songs are for the lost dogs of honest mechanics, good guys and girls born into a life of crime, runaways, snow spirits, the ghosts of Central Park, unsung diving-board stars, the affection shared through gambling, and so on. Bred in Texas, more bread in New York City, Meek spins outlaw ballads and quotidian fairy tales into a yarn, with Adam Brisbin on guitar (Jolie Holland, Sam Evian, Katie Von Schleicher), Mat Davidson on bass (Twain, The Low Anthem, Spirit Family Reunion), and Austin Vaughn on drums (Here We Go Magic, Luke Temple, Sam Evian).
Meek’s self titled debut album was recorded and mixed by ace engineer Phil Weinrobe (Really Big Pinecone, Ceramic Dog, Nick Murphy) at both Rivington 66 - an orange den beneath the Lower East Side of Manhattan, and the cork womb of Figure 8 Recording in Brooklyn, as well as the wainscoted old-growth oak joisted parlor of the Lethe Lounge in upper Manhattan, with engineer Andrew Sarlo (Big Thief, Nick Hakim). In addition to the core band, the album personnel includes Mikey Buishas (Really Big Pinecone) on pump organ, Dave Harrington (Dark Side, Nicolas Jaar) on pedal steel, Adrianne Lenker (Big Thief) on vocals, Buck's brother Dylan Meek (Miguel, Grant AME Gospel Choir, Post Malone) on Wurlitzer, and Michael Sachs (Little King, Secret Sibling) on clarinet.
