{"id":143997,"date":"2025-06-01T06:31:01","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T06:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/01\/song-exploder-jeff-tweedy-how-to-write-one-song\/"},"modified":"2025-06-01T06:31:01","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T06:31:01","slug":"song-exploder-jeff-tweedy-how-to-write-one-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/01\/song-exploder-jeff-tweedy-how-to-write-one-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Song Exploder &#8211; Jeff Tweedy: &#8220;How to Write One Song&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cHow to Write One Song\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5106\" src=\"https:\/\/songexploder.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/SongExploder-JeffTweedy-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/songexploder.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/SongExploder-JeffTweedy-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/songexploder.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/SongExploder-JeffTweedy-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/songexploder.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/SongExploder-JeffTweedy-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/songexploder.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/SongExploder-JeffTweedy.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/p>\n<p><!-- PRX PLAYER EMBED --><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"min-width: 300px;\" src=\"https:\/\/play.prx.org\/e?ge=prx_93_0f6db382-7044-4e35-ad3f-28e00530e91a&amp;uf=http%3A%2F%2Ffeed.songexploder.net%2FSongExploder\" width=\"100%\" height=\"200\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><!-- PRX PLAYER EMBED CODE ENDS --><\/p>\n<p>In June 2024, I received to go to the Solid Sound Festival in North Adams, Massachusetts, which is organized by the band <a href=\"https:\/\/songexploder.net\/wilco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wilco.<\/a> I carried out a few of my new songs, and I received to interview <a href=\"https:\/\/jefftweedy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jeff Tweedy,<\/a> the lead singer of Wilco, on stage as a part of the competition. Jeff, along with being in Wilco and the band <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tweedy_(band)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tweedy,<\/a> and placing out his <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jeff_Tweedy_discography\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">solo albums,<\/a> has additionally written <a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/authors\/2005629\/jeff-tweedy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">three books.<\/a> And this dialog was targeted on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/670253\/how-to-write-one-song-by-jeff-tweedy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his second ebook, which known as <em>How to Write One Song<\/em>.<\/a> And regardless that it\u2019s known as <em>How to Write One Song<\/em>, I feel it really comprises a variety of perception about creativity usually, and life usually. I\u2019ve really useful it to mates of mine who aren\u2019t songwriters. And, as you\u2019ll 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\u2019d been going through in my very own songwriting, at a reasonably profound degree. And once I was listening again to this recording, I\u2019d 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\u2019m 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\u2019ll get pleasure from it, too.<\/p>\n<p>You should buy <em>How to Write One Song<\/em> by Jeff Tweedy <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/88375\/9780593183526\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">right here (by way of Bookshop.org)<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/43PtqrM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">right here (by way of Amazon)<\/a> or on <a href=\"https:\/\/wilcostore.com\/products\/jeff-tweedy-how-to-write-one-song-book\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wilco\u2019s web site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can hearken to the Wilco episode of Song Exploder <a href=\"https:\/\/songexploder.net\/wilco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">right here<\/a>. 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 <em>Partners<\/em>. <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/jeff-tweedy-spencer-tweedy\/id1494790308?i=1000474486797\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">You can hearken to that right here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><i>Illustration by <\/i><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lerms.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Carlos Lerma<\/a><\/i><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/songexploder.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/AustinNelson@austinnelsonphoto_CCCI_SongExploder_1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5112\"\/><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bookexploder.com\/episodes\/george-saunders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">George Saunders<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguin.com\/jill-schwartzman-editorial-director\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jill Schwartzman<\/a> \u2013 Jeff\u2019s editor<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomschickmusic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tom Schick<\/a> \u2013 Wilco producer\/mixer\/engineer<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intonationmusic.org\/mark-greenberg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mark Greenberg<\/a> \u2013 studio supervisor at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/theloftchicago\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wilco\u2019s Loft<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/wilcoworld.net\/music\/star-wars\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Star Wars<\/em><\/a> \u2013 Wilco album\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><!-- Simple Share Buttons Adder (8.5.2) simplesharebuttons.com -->\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] \u201cHow to Write One Song\u201d 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":143998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[1304,1871,1303,11389,10917],"class_list":{"0":"post-143997","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-exploder","9":"tag-jeff","10":"tag-song","11":"tag-tweedy","12":"tag-write"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}