Wilco

On “Company on My Back,” from A Ghost Is Born, Jeff Tweedy croaks, I attack with love, and he could be motto-slinging for Wilco‘s legendary live shows. With last year’s Kicking Television, the band dropped documentary proof that Ghost‘s meditative songs were, down deep, big-time rock and roll — and hey, their fans knew it already. In this year’s Wilcarnation, avant-guitarist Nels Cline slings up both the tangled, itchier edge of the music and its occasionally excruciating sadness. Last time Wilco played indoors around here, the floor was so tight you couldn’t talk without licking someone else’s teeth.There’s absolutely no reason to suspect this one will be any different.