What does Wilco have to do with Blake? Not a whole lot. Wilco’s music isn’t anything close to what I’m expecting out of Blake. Yet Blake likes to pimp his local music scene and I thought I’d take a crack at it, too. My local scene is the great city of Chicago, and while I suppose I could pimp Kanye West, his album “Graduation” just scored the number 15 spot of debut albums in Soundscan history and needs no introduction.
Instead, I’d like to start with Wilco. I love the story of their most successful album so far, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. Their label didn’t care for it and pretty much fired the band, giving them the rights to the album for free. Wilco then turned around and sold it to another division of the same umbrella company (Warner). Not only that, it went gold. Way to stick it to the man!
Here’s a great clip (I’m pretty sure it’s from the documentary “I’m Trying to Break Your Heart” about the whole Yankee Hotel Foxtrot fiasco) set to “Jesus, Etc”. Pretty song and some great shots of Chicago.
More after the jump.
