Wilco at the Crossroads

Wilco

Better than: Elton John at the Sprint Center

Review by Richard Gintowt

Wilco has been my favorite band since high school. I’ve spun each record endlessly and faithfully driven to god-forsaken places like Omaha and Wichita to catch the band live. Heck, I even gave Jeff Tweedy a tape of my band when I was in high school (still waiting for a response…).

The thing is, Sky Blue Sky isn’t my favorite Wilco record. It’s a great album and a perfectly sensible follow-up to A Ghost Is Born, but it just hasn’t dazzled me the way Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and Summerteeth did. Maybe it’s the mellowness of it, or maybe it’s the melancholy. Either way, I’m gonna stay right by Wilco’s side – ‘cause they’re Wilco, ya know?