What Jay Bennett's Death Made Me Realize About Wilco
SPIN's Ellen Carpenter on the sad passing of the inventive musician -- and why she loves the new Wilco record anyway.
By Ellen Carpenter 05.29.09 7:48 AM
A few Sundays ago I hosted a Wilco listening session in my apartment.
The only guest was my husband, a casual listener more conversant in Jeff Tweedy's migraines and squabbles with sidemen than the band's actual musical catalogue. As a longtime Wilco fan -- who first heard A.M. on a dorm boombox freshman year at college in Chicago -- I took it upon myself to school him.




