Monday, 6 Jul 2009
I hope the holiday weekend treated you well. I spent some time revisiting Big Star’s #1 Record/Radio City, which was recently remastered and, though I thought impossible to improve, sounds pretty damn fine to these ears. Whenever I return to the Big Star catalog I also have to give Wilco’s take on “Thirteen” a couple spins as well. In the event you don’t have it in your collection, I’ve got a download for you below.
Buy: Big Star – #1 Record/Radio City
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MP3: Wilco – “Thirteen” (Big Star cover)
July 7th, 2009 at 9:38 pm
Nice post. With the release of the new Wilco album I have been going back and listening to a lot of Wilco and Tweedy-related material. Two Tweedy songs that I highly recommend are from the Golden Smog albums. “Radio King” from Down by the Old Mainstream and “Please Tell My Brother” from the Weird Tales record. Both reminded me how great Tweedy can be with not much more than just an acoustic guitar. I like this Big Star cover too.