- Jeff Tweedy
Jeffrey Scott Tweedy (born August 25, 1967 in Belleville, Illinois, United States) is an American songwriter, musician, and poet. Tweedy joined rockabilly band The Plebs with high school friend Jay Farrar in the early 1980s, but Tweedy's musical interests caused one of Farrar's brothers to quit. The Plebs changed their name to The Primitives in 1984, but changed its name to Uncle Tupelo in 1987 due to the success of a British band named The Primitives. - Billy Bragg
Stephen William Bragg (born December 20, 1957), known as Billy Bragg, is an English musician renowned for his blend of folk, punk-rock, and protest music, and his lyrics dealing with political as well as romantic themes. He has been active for over 20 years, and has collaborated with many other leading musicians, including Johnny Marr of The Smiths, protest folk singer Leon Rosselson, members of R.E.M., Michelle Shocked, Less Than Jake, Kirsty MacColl, … - Jim O'Rourke
Jim O'Rourke (born January 18, 1969) is an American musician and producer. He was long associated with the Chicago experimental and improv scene. Around 2000 he relocated to New York City. Known for his idiosyncratic tastes, and regarded as something of an expert on modern experimental music, he has released albums of jazz, noise and guitar rock music. O'Rourke has collaborated with the likes of Thurston Moore, Derek Bailey, Loren Mazzacane Connors, Nurse With Wound, … - Glenn Kotche
Glenn Kotche is an American drummer, best known for his involvement in the band Wilco. Prior to working with Wilco, Kotche had released a four-track album entitled "Introducing". In 2003 he released a second solo album titled "Next," featuring solo drum improvisations using homemade percussion instruments. A third solo album was released in March 2006 on Nonesuch Records, entitled "Mobile. - Gary Louris
Gary Louris (born March 10, 1955 in Toledo, Ohio) is a guitarist, singer, and songwriter of alternative country and pop music. He was a founding member of the Minneapolis-based band The Jayhawks, and their principal songwriter and vocalist after the departure of Mark Olson; he is often credited with the band's subsequent move from folk-country toward a more progressive, poppier sound. - Jay Bennett
Jay Bennett is an American singer-songwriter. He was a founding member of Titanic Love Affair, which recorded three albums in the 1990s: "Titanic Love Affair" (1991), "No Charisma" (1992), and "Their Titanic Majesty's Request" (1996). In 1995 Bennett joined the group Wilco. He was hired as a lead guitarist but soon became Wilco's keyboardist, recording engineer, and co-songwriter. He appears on the Wilco albums "Being There", … - Ed Harcourt
Ed Harcourt (born August 14 1977) is an English singer-songwriter from Sussex who as of 2006 has released six albums and has a hugely supportive and enthusiastic worldwide fanbase. Harcourt's primary instrument is the piano, but he also plays numerous less common keyboard instruments as well as the guitar and percussion. When performing live he is most often accompanied by a band typically comprising a drummer, guitarist, violinist and trumpeter, … - Nikki Sudden
Nikki Sudden born Adrian Nicholas Godfrey in London, was a prolific English singer-songwriter and guitarist. He co-founded the post-punk band Swell Maps with his brother Epic Soundtracks born Kevin Paul Godfrey whilst attending Solihull School in Solihull. Following the band's break-up in 1980 he started a solo career, as well as releasing records with Dave Kusworth as The Jacobites. Kusworth had been a member of the Dogs D'Amour and led his own band, … - John Stirratt
John Stirratt is the bassist for Wilco and the former bassist of Uncle Tupelo. He and Jeff Tweedy are the only original members of Wilco still with the band. Stirratt is also the twin brother of Laurie Stirratt, formerly of Blue Mountain. Together they released an album in 2004 titled Arabella, under the name Laurie and John. Stirratt and Pat Sansone also have another band, The Autumn Defense, who are responsible for three full-length albums, "The Green Hour" in 2000, … - Corey Harris
Corey Harris (Born February 21, 1969 in Denver, Colorado) is a Bates College educated anthropologist and blues musician. Currently residing in Virginia, Harris is constantly on tour and is proud to carry the tradition of classic African-influenced blues music into the 21st century. Harris was featured on the acclaimed 2003 PBS television mini-series "The Blues" in an episode directed by Martin Scorsese. - Alex Chilton
Alex Chilton (born named William Alexander Chilton, on December 28, 1950, in Memphis, Tennessee) is an American songwriter, guitarist, singer and producer best known for his work with the pop-music bands the Box Tops and Big Star. Chilton's early commercial sales success in the 1960s as a teen vocalist for the Box Tops was not repeated in later years with Big Star and in his indie music solo career on small labels like Last Call Records, New Rose, Razor and Tie, Bar/None, … - Ken Coomer
Ken Coomer was the drummer for the band Uncle Tupelo as well as the drummer for Wilco until Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. He was the drummer and co-founder of the Nashville band Clockhammer in the late 80's and early 90's. He continues to play on various projects and he has also produced a platinum selling Mexican Singer/Songwriter named Chetes. - Leroy Bach
LeRoy Bach was involved in the recording of Wilco's 1999 album Summerteeth, and was named an official member of the group before the release of 2002's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. In January of 2004, Wilco announced on the band's web site that Bach was leaving the band. Previously Bach was involved with The Dishes, 5ive Style and leader of Uptighty, a premier Chicago funk band. - Greg Kot
Greg Kot has been the rock critic of the "Chicago Tribune" since 1990. His biography of Wilco and the state of the music industry, "Wilco: Learning How to Die", was published in 2004 by Doubleday/Broadway Books. He is a regular contributor to Rolling Stone and other national periodicals, and is the music analyst for Fox-TV morning newscasts. His work also has appeared in Encyclopaedia Britannica and numerous books, including "Harrison, … - Sam Jones
Samuel Jones is a filmmaker and celebrity photographer based in Los Angeles. His works include "I Am Trying to Break Your Heart", a black-and-white film about the rock band Wilco and the making of their album "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot", from one of whom's songs the film takes its name. Not to be confused with the female producer Sam Jones - Pat Sansone
Pat Sansone is a multi-instrumentalist in the rock bands Wilco and The Autumn Defense. Pat was born in Meridian, Mississippi, which is the home of Jimmie Rogers, the father of country music. Upon entering college at the University of Southern Mississippi, Pat found two musical kindred souls in Will Martin and Eddie Bo McRaney and started Beagle Voyage, a Minutemen/Hüsker Dü/The Who/Rush influenced power trio, with Pat on guitar. - Mikael Jorgensen
Mikael Jorgensen is the lead keyboardist for the band Wilco. He first appeared on Wilco's 2004 release, "A Ghost Is Born". On that album, he received songwriting credit for Hell is Chrome and Theologians. Jorgensen, a Chicago-based engineer and musician initially came aboard to perform real-time sound manipulations on the Yankee Hotel Foxtrot tour, sitting just off stage left, triggering the samples and sonic flourishes required to bring the YHF material to life. - Laurie Stirratt
Laurie Stirratt is most notably a member of the seminal alt-country band, Blue Mountain, in which she played bass and sang harmony with her ex-husband, Cary Hudson. She released an album with her twin brother, John Stirratt, who plays bass in Wilco, as Laurie & John in 2004. She is also a member of Healthy White Baby along with Danny Black of alt-country band The Blacks. - Max Johnston
Max Johnston is a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist best known for his work on fiddle, Dobro, banjo, and mandolin with the bands Uncle Tupelo, Wilco and more recently, The Gourds. Johnston is the younger brother of singer-songwriter Michelle Shocked and has supported her in concert tours as well. - Greg Leisz
Greg Leisz (pronounced "Lees") is an American multi-instrumentalist, playing lap and pedal steel guitars, guitar, mandolin, and bass. Little known by his own name, his highly respected playing has appeared on recordings by Bill Frisell, Dave Alvin, Tracy Chapman, the Smashing Pumpkins, Matthew Sweet, the Jayhawks, Beck, Me'shell Ndegeocello, Bruce Cockburn, Wilco, Shawn Colvin, Lucinda Williams, Peter Case, Joni Mitchell, Whiskeytown, Girish, Bad Religion and Sheryl Crow, … - Brian Henneman
Brian Henneman is an alt-country musician best known as the frontman for the Bottle Rockets, and his collaborations with Uncle Tupelo and Wilco. Henneman released a solo single "Get Down River" backed with "Wave that Flag" and "Indianapolis" the latter of which features Jay Farrar and Jeff Tweedy in their only collaboration since Uncle Tupelo's break-up. - Edward Burch
Edward Burch (born June 9, 1968 in Centreville, Illinois, near his home town of Dupo, Illinois) is a Chicago and Champaign, Illinois-based musician and journalist. As a guitarist, he is a founding member of alternative country band The Kennett Brothers and, as a suitcase player, of the quasi-skiffle combo The Viper and His Famous Orchestra. He has been a longtime collaborator of former Titanic Love Affair and Wilco multi-instrumentalist Jay Bennett. - Jim Cuddy
Jim Cuddy (born in Toronto on December 2, 1955) is a Canadian singer-songwriter primarily associated with the band Blue Rodeo. He has also produced two solo albums with the Jim Cuddy Band, which features such musicians as Bazil Donovan, Colin Cripps and Gavin Brown. Guest performers include Cripps' wife Kathleen Edwards, former Weeping Tile member Sarah Harmer, and Wilco's Jeff Tweedy. - Thax Douglas
Thaxter Elliott Douglas III (b. 31 October, 1957), better known as Thax Douglas, is an American poet based out of Chicago, Illinois. Due to his close relationship to the city's music scene, he is often referred to as a "rock poet." For many years, Douglas has been a fixture at Chicago-area shows, reading poems directly inspired by the music of bands as introductions for their performances. Many of these poems have been compiled in Douglas's books. - Reid Jamieson
Reid Jamieson is a Canadian singer songwriter born October 20, 1973 in Toronto, Ontario. He has released 3 albums and the most recent one being 2004's "The Unavoidable Truth", distributed by Universal Music Canada. Produced by Josh Finlayson, "The Unavoidable Truth" features guest appearances from Sarah Harmer, Mia Sheard, Peter Elkas, John Southworth and Bob Egan (Blue Rodeo, Wilco). - Todd Deatherage
Todd Deatherage is a Dallas, Texas born musician and songwriter. In 1995 he formed the alt-country band The Calways with Steve Visneau and Todd Pertll, and they opened for such acts as Wilco, the Old 97's, and Reverend Horton Heat. Their album "Starting at the End" was released on Red Label Records in 1998. Deatherage began his solo career in 1999, and in 2001 released the album "Dream Upon a Fallen Star" on Summer Break Records. - Jessica Lurie
Jessica Lurie is an American composer, performance artist and woodwind-er, originally hailing from Seattle and now living in New York. She performs and records worldwide with the Tiptons Sax Quartet (formerly the Billy Tipton Memorial Sax Quartet), the Living Daylights (Seattle), and New York's Latin group La Buya. Her own group, The Jessica Lurie Ensemble (JLE), shows Lurie's talents as band leader and composer as well as player. - Michael Brauer
Michael Brauer is a New York-based multi-platinum and Grammy award winning Mixer whose credits encompass a wide range of genres, and include The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Coldplay, John Mayer, Ash, My Morning Jacket, Ben Folds, Dream Theater, The New Radicals, Fountains of Wayne, David Poe, Wilco and Ron Sexsmith. Michael has established himself as an A-List mixer with a recent string of highly successful albums. - Jf Robitaille
JF Robitaille is a Canadian singer-songwriter, born and raised in Montreal, Quebec. His 2006 debut EP, "The Blood In My Body", was recorded by Howard Bilerman (Arcade Fire) and Brian Paulson (Wilco, Beck). - Jared Tyler
Jared Tyler, Tulsa Oklahoma, is an American singer-songwriter. He made his national debut with the release of "Blue Alleluia", an album produced by Russ Titelman on Walking Liberty Records, NYC. Tyler has been the supporting act for many artists and bands such as Emmylou Harris, Nickel Creek, Merle Haggard, Wilco, Shelby Lynne, Dave Wilcox, Shannon Lawson, and Willis Alan Ramsey. - Joshua Landis
www.knoxskorner.com. - Joshua West
Joshua West (born on May 30, 1973 in North Carolina, USA) is an American singer, songwriter, composer and multi-instrument musician. His musical styles have been compared to The Beatles, Elliott Smith, Jeff Buckley, Lenny Kravitz, Prince, Wilco and others by media and fans. - Patrick Herron
My Writing Bio. - Eugene Mirman
Eugene Boris Mirman is a Russian-born American comedian, writer, and film maker, who is based in New York City. Mirman attended Lexington High School in Lexington, MA, and later Hampshire College in Western Massachusetts. Mirman has appeared on several TV shows, including Late Night With Conan O'Brien, Comedy Central's Premium Blend and Jump Cuts, VH1, Third Watch, Cartoon Network's Home Movies, Cheap Seats, HBO's Flight of the Conchords and more. - Malcolm Lawrence
I'm the founder/CEO and Editor-In-Chief of towerofbabel.com. - Natalie Cervelli
I'm a passionate person who often gets into a lot of trouble because of it. But is there any other way to be? - Tom Bohannan
Here I am. I am currently living in Dayton, Nevada (near Carson City/Lake Tahoe) with Kim, my beautiful girlfriend of over two years now and our two dogs. We moved up here from Vegas in June 2006 due to her job and we all love it. This place makes Vegas look like a dump. We have a nice home that lies in a valley between two mountain ranges. Granted, there's not as much to do here as far as nightlife goes, but there's so much more to do outdoors. - Jason Kupfer
My guidance counselor in 9th grade once referred to me as a "go-getter." I've overheard the term "ladies man" wafting on certain breezes while close to gossipy ocean currents. Older men in unacquainted positions would instantly feel comfortable in designating me as their "son" or "sonny." My brother prefers the term "fucking asshole." So all in all a man of many terms, of many faces one might say. A mystery. - Jason Whetzell
I made these shows. - Jeff Doiron
Graduated from East Lyme High School in East Lyme, Connecticut. [June 2004] Graduated from Vancouver Film School. [October 2005]
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