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Let's Go (So We Can Get Back): A Memoir of Recording and Discording with Wilco, Etc. by Jeff Tweedy
olivercompton's review
5.0
I really loved this book, and was really glad I listened to the audiobook version. Jeff Tweedy is such a good story teller and narrator. Heartwarming and very honest feeling, I’ll definitely be returning to this book and Jeff’s music.
olieb's review
4.0
Honest, Witty, entertaining, and thought-provoking. Jeff knows how to write well.
stevenyenzer's review
4.0
Tweedy is a terrific writer: funny, insightful, and highly readable. Great for anyone interested in music or creativity, not just Wilco fans.
bethtmorris's review
4.0
A must read if you’re a Wilco fan. Jeff has evolved considerably since he’s been sober and that evident in his writing. He’s honest about his shortcomings and I really marveled at his descriptions of how he writes a song. It’s still baffling to me but grateful that he is still making so much music.
lizchereskin's review
3.0
An honest and endearing music autobiography that takes you from Tweedy's youth in southern Illinois through band breakups and Wilco's success and his growing family. Ironically, the music autobiography this most reminds me of is Bruce Springsteen's, and Tweedy talks more than once about how growing up he didn't really want to be like Bruce Springsteen.
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is one of my favorite albums of all time, but I don't know that I would consider myself a diehard Wilco fan, and therefore didn't know too much about the disputes he had with bandmates or this band's history before reading. What's most interesting, though, is getting insight into Tweedy's unique way of looking at the world and at music and creativity; that's where the book shined for me--not so much in the stories about drinking or fighting with the band or his drug abuse, but more his songwriting process, what it's like to be paid to do what you love and how wearing your heart on your sleeve can sometimes payoff in the end.
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is one of my favorite albums of all time, but I don't know that I would consider myself a diehard Wilco fan, and therefore didn't know too much about the disputes he had with bandmates or this band's history before reading. What's most interesting, though, is getting insight into Tweedy's unique way of looking at the world and at music and creativity; that's where the book shined for me--not so much in the stories about drinking or fighting with the band or his drug abuse, but more his songwriting process, what it's like to be paid to do what you love and how wearing your heart on your sleeve can sometimes payoff in the end.
schray32's review
4.0
It’s not often my husband reads a book and hands it to me saying, “this book says things about myself in ways that I could never explain.” I was intrigued... I like Wilco and Jeff Tweedy...
Well, Jeff Tweedy can write. This a a beautifully written book about how his life turned out so far flaws and all.
This is a passage that I think speaks to my husband and all musicians. (Note, the guitar is not my thing.)
“Learning how to play the guitar is the one thing I always look back on with wonderment. I’m reminded of ‘What ifs?’ every time I pick up a guitar. Where would I be? I have sort of a survivor’s gilt about it that makes me want it for everyone. Not the ‘guitar’ exactly, but something like it for everybody. Something that would love them back the more they love it. Something that would remind them of how far they’ve come and provide clear evidence that the future is always unfolding toward some small treasure worth waiting for.”
As my husband sits in his office with his guitar, I guess this book does make me get it. The odd part is that I think books are my guitar, so in a weird way Jeff Tweedy connected an understanding in each of us.
Well, Jeff Tweedy can write. This a a beautifully written book about how his life turned out so far flaws and all.
This is a passage that I think speaks to my husband and all musicians. (Note, the guitar is not my thing.)
“Learning how to play the guitar is the one thing I always look back on with wonderment. I’m reminded of ‘What ifs?’ every time I pick up a guitar. Where would I be? I have sort of a survivor’s gilt about it that makes me want it for everyone. Not the ‘guitar’ exactly, but something like it for everybody. Something that would love them back the more they love it. Something that would remind them of how far they’ve come and provide clear evidence that the future is always unfolding toward some small treasure worth waiting for.”
As my husband sits in his office with his guitar, I guess this book does make me get it. The odd part is that I think books are my guitar, so in a weird way Jeff Tweedy connected an understanding in each of us.