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"Jesus, Etc." by Wilco

Strong Songs

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Songwriting - Esabd

The first time that i listened to it, i fond yankee hotel foxtrot to be a pretty distressing, anguished album. After all that sadness and death, tweedy's opening lyrics tell a very different story. The spaces and images that i conjure around and through tweety's lyrics have taken on new form and meaning. There's hope in those first four tunes. It's just sometimes it's a bleak hope. And it's into that context that jesus et cetera arrives, the fifth track on the album,. Strings an electric piano hover over a simmering rhythm section with drummond bass panting That recalls the mix on a late

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