” Wilco goes country! the group said, smirking. The label stuck to Jeff Tweedy and company since the Uncle Tupelo era preceding the creation of the group which, without denying its influence, then ventured into exploratory rock. Of course, Wilco plays with the sounds of the genre (Nels Cline on guitars; lap steel and dobro!) to bring the songs towards folk or rock song, thus offering a musically very soft, but thematically complex double album. Tweedy reflected on the apparent fractures in American society, the main theme of the work: even the most intimate songs evoke with a touch of bitterness human and romantic relationships, on the retro Please Be Wrong, or the splendid Many Worlds and its seven plaintive minutes. We will listen to the title song while mourning the young victims of Uvalde: I love my country like a little boy / Red, white and blue / I love my country stupid and cruel / Red, white and blue / All you have to do is sing in the choir / Kill yourself every once in a while. In concert at MTELUS on August 20.
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