Jeff Tweedy - Love Is The King/Live Is The King

 

Double LP

Deluxe Edition White Marble Colored Vinyl!

Tweedy's rendition of "The Old Country Waltz" appears on bonus live disc

Wilco's Jeff Tweedy 2021 solo album gets a deluxe vinyl edition with Love Is the King/Live Is the King, which features a bonus disc housing live versions of all 11 original songs from Love Is the King.

The bonus disc also includes a cover of Neil Young's "The Old Country Waltz," which Tweedy shared alongside the deluxe edition announcement. The accompanying video features shots from the Chicago venue the Hideout.

Typically bustling with happy patrons, the intimate venue appears quiet and empty in the video, before the camera moves into the music room, where Tweedy and his band are onstage gearing up to play without an audience. It echoes the "empty hall, bouncin' off the wall" sentiments of the original song, while also resonating with the ever-evolving pandemic times we live in, which initially shuttered venues like the Hideout for months.

The live renditions for the LP were tracked at the Loft, Wilco's North Side Chicago studio, and at hometown venues Constellation and the Hideout. Tweedy's sons, Sammy and Spencer, Liam Kazar, James Elkington, and Ohmme's Sima Cunningham serve as the backing band on the live set.

 

 

Love Is The King

Side A

1. Love Is The King

2. Opaline

3. A Robin or A Wren

4. Gwendolyn

5. Bad Day Lately

6. Even I Can See

Side B

1. Natural Disaster

2. Save It For Me

3. Guess Again

4. Troubled

5. Half-Asleep

Live Is The King

Side A

1. Love Is The King (Live)

2. Opaline (Live)

3. A Robin or A Wren (Live)

4. Gwendolyn (Live)

5. Bad Day Lately (Live)

6. Even I Can See (Live)

Side B

1. Natural Disaster (Live)

2. Save It For Me (Live)

3. Guess Again (Live)

4. Troubled (Live)

5. Half-Asleep (Live)

6. The Old Country Waltz (Live)

Be the first to write a review for this item OR just rate it