Wilco's Nels Cline on Working with Jeff Tweedy and His Reputation for Weird Sounds
From SF Weekly's latest print music section:
The Wizard of Wilco: Nels Cline is extremely lucky, and he knows it. Widely regarded as one of the world's finest living guitarists, Cline came up playing styles of music whose audience is sadly shrinking: jazz, improvisatory, and avant-garde. If those were the beginning and end of his interests, you probably wouldn't be reading this article. But throughout his career, Cline, 56, has kept one foot on in the pop music world, collaborating with artists like Mike Watt, Sonic Youth, and even Willie Nelson. Still, none of those associations raised Cline's profile as much as joining the celebrated Americana rock outfit Wilco in 2004. Now, Cline gets to lend his virtuosic wailing to some of our era's finest rock -- and play for large crowds all over the world -- while working with his own experimental trio, The Nels Cline Singers, on the side. Ahead of Wilco's three Bay Area shows this week, we spoke with Cline to find out how that all works out... [continue reading]
That's Nels in the red shirt.
Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and lows from the week in S.F. music.
Also, we recommend shows from Graveyard, Tom Tom Club, Tommy Keene, and Masters at Work.
----
Follow us on Twitter @SFAllShookDown, and like us at Facebook.com/SFAllShookDown.
Email to Friend
Write to Editor
Print Article
