Example sentences for: wilco

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  • But this is a magazine for a new market: young music fans who grasp the absurdism in Dolly Parton's act, who understand that Merle Haggard is a better singer than Garth Brooks, who see punk-influenced bands like the Waco Brothers and Wilco as a vindication of their idea of country music.

  • Its instrumentation tends toward authentic-sounding fiddles and steel guitars, but its sources are people like Neil Young--who shows up in Wilco's and Son Volt's maundering ballads--and the Byrds, whose country-rock Sweetheart of the Rodeo album appears in nearly everything.

  • Next there are the semilegit crossovers between country and rock or folk--Wilco, the Old 97's, Son Volt, Iris DeMent--who adorn themselves in the trappings of country but use a studied, shambling rawness to appeal to rock fans.

  • Wilco has sold 60,000 copies of its new album, Being There ; the Old 97's, another of No Depression 's frequent causes, has just been signed to the major label Elektra.

  • Wilco, the No Depression -approved band with the strongest fan base, swings between down-home sentimentality and rock aggression: The lyrics to a new song, "Misunderstood," begin with spare piano accompaniment and local color ("You're back in your old neighborhood/ where the cigarettes taste so good") and end with feedback and tantrums ("I'd like to thank you all for nothing at all!"


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