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“How to Write One Song”
In June 2024, I received to go to the Solid Sound Festival in North Adams, Massachusetts, which is organized by the band Wilco. I carried out a few of my new songs, and I received to interview Jeff Tweedy, the lead singer of Wilco, on stage as a part of the competition. Jeff, along with being in Wilco and the band Tweedy, and placing out his solo albums, has additionally written three books. And this dialog was targeted on his second ebook, which known as How to Write One Song. And regardless that it’s known as How to Write One Song, I feel it really comprises a variety of perception about creativity usually, and life usually. I’ve really useful it to mates of mine who aren’t songwriters. And, as you’ll hear, the dialog will get fairly private for me, as a result of I received a lot out of the ebook personally. It helped me with a number of the blocks that I’d been going through in my very own songwriting, at a reasonably profound degree. And once I was listening again to this recording, I’d sort of forgotten about how a lot I put on the market in entrance of Jeff and the hundreds of people that had been there watching. But I’m glad the dialog was recorded, partly simply so I may revisit it, but additionally in order that I may share it right here on Song Exploder. I hope you’ll get pleasure from it, too.
You should buy How to Write One Song by Jeff Tweedy right here (by way of Bookshop.org) or right here (by way of Amazon) or on Wilco’s web site.
You can hearken to the Wilco episode of Song Exploder right here. I additionally interviewed Jeff alongside together with his son Spencer, who can also be his bandmate in Tweedy, about their relationship and musical partnership, for an episode of my podcast Partners. You can hearken to that right here.
Illustration by Carlos Lerma.
George Saunders
Jill Schwartzman – Jeff’s editor
Tom Schick – Wilco producer/mixer/engineer
Mark Greenberg – studio supervisor at Wilco’s Loft
Star Wars – Wilco album