{"id":2052536,"date":"2025-09-26T19:32:33","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T19:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2052536"},"modified":"2025-09-26T19:32:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T19:32:33","slug":"wilcos-jeff-tweedy-has-a-new-solo-album-twilight-override-and-thoughts-on-creativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wilcos-jeff-tweedy-has-a-new-solo-album-twilight-override-and-thoughts-on-creativity\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilco\u2019s Jeff Tweedy has a new solo album, \u2018Twilight Override,\u2019 and thoughts on creativity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The state of the world isn\u2019t exactly making Grammy Award-winning musician Jeff Tweedy feel light these days. As he has since he first learned to play guitar growing up in Belleville, Illinois, the frontman of the alt-rock band Wilco has turned to music \u2013 and his family \u2013 to meet the moment.<\/p>\n<p>The result is a new solo album, \u201cTwilight Override,\u201d which he recorded with his adult sons, Sammy and Spencer, and close friends. Furiously written over two years, the 30 songs of this triple album, debuting Sept. 26, represent his attempt to \u201cup the wattage\u201d of his own light.<\/p>\n<p>The musician and bestselling author, whose books include one about crafting songs, wants others to feel lighter, too \u2013 by creating. \u201cMake a record with your friends,\u201d he croons in \u201cFeel Free.\u201d \u201cSing a song that never ends.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"editor-intro row\">\n<h2 class=\"title text-center trinity-skip-it\">Why We Wrote This<\/h2>\n<p class=\"trinity-skip-it\"><span>When faced with a challenging world, Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy turns to songwriting. His new solo album, \u201cTwilight Override,\u201d is fueled by intentionality \u2013 valuing connection over division and creation over destruction.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The singer-songwriter spoke with the Monitor recently via Zoom about his \u201cbig-hearted outpouring\u201d of music-making. The interview has been edited for length and clarity.<\/p>\n<p><b>You made a statement about the release of \u201cTwilight Override\u201d: \u201cWhen you align yourself with creation, you inherently take a side against destruction. You\u2019re on the side of creation and that does a lot to quell the impulse to destroy.\u201d For those of us who are not musicians, can you tell us about that feeling of creating a new song in the studio and what it does for your sense of well-being? <\/b><\/p>\n<p>I feel very fortunate to have a habit, a practice, a discipline of writing every day and spending time with myself intentionally in my imagination and creating. I think it\u2019s really a tough place to be afraid. I think you feel very, very powerful. Maybe the most powerful I ever feel is in those moments where I\u2019m reminded on a daily basis that I can make something out of nothing, and I have the power to reject the world I disagree with, and in a small way, I can make my own world.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"injection\"\/>\n<p>This is something I started noticing a little while ago, maybe in the beginning of this season of whatever it is that we\u2019re experiencing in this country. I think it\u2019s really, really bad to wake up every day thinking about someone you hate. And I think it\u2019s really bad to willingly put yourself in a cage, psychologically, where all you\u2019re thinking about is people you hate, the person you hate. You treat social media like that. You seem to willingly go there to be outraged, to be angry, and to be scared, and be worked up. And what are you losing when you do that? Well, to me, you\u2019re losing the one freedom that is probably gonna be the hardest to take away if you\u2019re willing to preserve it. And that\u2019d be the freedom to think how you want to think, to imagine a better world, maintain some sense of right and wrong.<\/p>\n<div class=\"in_story_embed embed-object embed-image \">\n<figure class=\"embed ezc-image \">\n<picture>\n\t\t\t<!--[if IE 9]><video style=\"display: none;\"><![endif]--><source media=\"(max-width: 40em)\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/images.csmonitor.com\/csm\/2025\/09\/0926%20FTWEEDY%20tweedy.jpg?alias=standard_600x400 1x, https:https:\/\/images.csmonitor.com\/csm\/2025\/09\/0926%20FTWEEDY%20tweedy.jpg?alias=standard_900x600 2x\"\/><source media=\"(max-width: 64em)\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/images.csmonitor.com\/csm\/2025\/09\/0926%20FTWEEDY%20tweedy.jpg?alias=standard_900x600\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 64em)\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/images.csmonitor.com\/csm\/2025\/09\/0926%20FTWEEDY%20tweedy.jpg?alias=standard_1200x800\"\/><!--[if IE 9]><\/video><![endif]--><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/picture>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"image-data\">\n<div class=\"caption-bar text-wrapper  \">\n<p>The triple album \u201cTwilight Override\u201d is the fifth solo album for Jeff Tweedy, who is also lead vocalist for the band Wilco.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p><b>How has playing with your family changed you as both a songwriter and a musician?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>My kids have told me this, and I don\u2019t know how this came about, but I don\u2019t think I ever get in a musical environment where I think that the person I\u2019m playing with is beneath me. And that includes them when they were little kids. Cause there is something super fun about reacting to someone just learning &#8230; not making mistakes, but doing things you wouldn\u2019t do. And having their own idea of what music making feels like coming through to you. So there\u2019s a constant learning process, and they\u2019re both really inspiring musicians to me, and I feel somewhat proud of that, that I fostered an environment where they could grow into that. But I don\u2019t know that I have that much to do with it. &#8230; Their mother is very musical. She would tell you she\u2019s not, but she also ran a rock club. And so they spent a lot of time there. Their whole lives have really been immersed in a culture of belief that this is just a thing you can do, that it\u2019s not something weird that somebody on stage does. It\u2019s something that the guy sitting on the floor with you does.<\/p>\n<p><b>I have to ask a book question because our readers love books. You wrote in \u201cHow to Write One Song\u201d that books are your companions and that you sometimes read them with a highlighter to mark phrases. What authors would you say have had the biggest impact on your songwriting?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The one I\u2019ve always talked about is William H. Gass, because I think he\u2019s a very difficult author. I can\u2019t say that I\u2019ve read very much of his fiction writing with total understanding. I\u2019ve read a lot of his nonfiction writing, his literary criticism &#8230; and seeing other people\u2019s art through his eyes has taught me a whole lot. The one thing I think I\u2019ve gotten from William H. Gass, or tried to get from him, is he is kind of like the king of sentence structure and metaphor, and he was really, really efficient, at least to me, at making something appear that he did not write down on the page. It\u2019s like a haiku. What you\u2019re writing about appears in-between the lines. It appears in your imagination. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Like there was a red-brick warm when the sun has died. So I can say that, and you can see the red brick, but what I feel like I see is my hand on a red brick. And that sense like, if you\u2019ve ever leaned against a brick building in the middle of the summer and even in the evening, it\u2019s still kind of radiating some heat. That\u2019s all the stuff you see, but you didn\u2019t write all that stuff down. And, I think that something\u2019s really working, language-wise and poetry-wise and lyric-wise to me, when those types of things get conjured. It\u2019s like kind of a magic trick, if you can make a very little bit, a little amount of words, contain a lot of imagery, not even necessarily say a lot, but make you see a lot.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"injection\" data-widget-name=\"body-last-injection\">\n<\/aside>\n<p><b>To go back to the idea of bringing light into the world right now, do you also see this album as resistance, as protest?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I do believe that art is inherently political. Even the most cynical art communicates, \u201cI bothered. I took the time. Some part of me must be hopeful because I made this thing and I\u2019m sharing it.\u201d And that all &#8230; communicates something that I think is missing most from our discourse, and that is a willingness to listen and a willingness to value connection over division, to value empathy over indifference, and to value creation over destruction. &#8230; I believe in rock music and rock \u2018n\u2019 roll as being for the people and for beauty, for something sacred. &#8230; Part of that belief is, I think, the world would be better if more people intentionally spent time with themselves in a self-discovering act such as creating. I think you learn things about yourself. You make a soul out of nothing.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.csmonitor.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The state of the world isn\u2019t exactly making Grammy Award-winning musician Jeff Tweedy feel light these days. As he has since he first learned to play guitar growing up in Belleville, Illinois, the frontman of the alt-rock band Wilco has turned to music \u2013 and his family \u2013 to meet the moment. 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