[photos by acidjack — they’re not very good, but you wanted this post up fast, right?]
We’ve written about Wilco and Jeff Tweedy a lot in the years of this site, in part because Wilco continue to be supportive of what we tapers do, but more importantly because they’ve continued to refine and expand their live show, making for something worth recording. For Jeff Tweedy’s inaugural Mountain Jam, Tweedy decided to serve up a slew of new songs (twelve, to be exact) , as well as some of the best-loved Wilco classics including “Jesus, Etc.” and “I Am Trying To Break Your Heart”, as well as the always-poignant “California Stars” from the band’s collaboration with Billy Bragg. The new tunes will appear on Tweedy’s forthcoming album with his son, Spencer, entitled Sukierae, which drops on September 16.
While the Wilco classics are always welcome, the new material was this set’s standout. Tweedy managed to get the audience to sing along to “Slow Love” despite that none of us had heard it before, and “Diamond Light” already looks like another great “jam” song, with a fiery guitar outro that begs for improvisation. There’s plenty more we could say about the set, but for Tweedy fans, the reason to hear this will be clear, and we want to get it out there as quickly as possible. Without further ado, here you go.
I recorded this set with MBHO microphones from an area to the immediate right of the soundboard. Despite this being a wide-open outdoor show at a decent distance from the stage, the vocals and general PA sound is clear and direct, and an excellent representation of this performance. Enjoy!
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Jeff Tweedy
2014-06-07
Mountain Jam X (East Stage)
Hunter, NY USA
Exclusive download hosted at nyctaper.com
Recorded and produced by acidjack
MBHO KA200N/MBP603 (PAS, Side of Board)>Sound Devices USBPre2>Sony PCM-D50>24bit/48kHz WAV>Adobe Audition CS 5.5 (fades, compression)>Izotope Ozone 5 (EQ, effects)>Audacity 2.0.3 (track, amplify, balance, downsample, dither)>FLAC ( level 8 )
Tracks [Total Time 1:14:14]
01 Down From Above
02 Flowering
03 Summer Noon
04 [banter1]
05 World Away
06 [banter2]
07 New Moon
08 [banter3]
09 Slow Love
10 Nobody Dies Anymore
11 High As Hello
12 Fake Fur Coat
13 [banter3]
14 Low Key
15 Honey Combed
16 Diamond Light
17 I Am Trying to Break Your Heart
18 New Madrid [Uncle Tupelo]
19 [banter4]
20 California Stars
21 Jesus, Etc.
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Just wanted to say thank you for your time, energy, and effort in bringing these recordings to the masses. This sounds great!
What a great recording! Tweedy in fine form, and you Guys doing outstanding work in recording and bringing it out quickly. As ever, I’m a fan of nyctaper and team and the music you Guys bring forth.
I said thank you so many times to you fine fellas for all that you do. I’m am gonna take a leap & just say it… I love you man!
Nice work, really wanted to go to this and couldn’t make it. Once again, you guys save the day.
Some of these songs are some of the most gorgeous pieces of writing I’ve ever heard. “Nobody Dies Anymore”, alone. Good God.
Hats off to the NYCtaper crew bringing so much good live music to a derved audience. I discovered this site by accident through archive.org while looking for Lucero. Did not find them but is this site providing good stuff. Sharon van Etten to Gov’t Mule. Where to start listening….so much goodies and so little time to listen. I will figure that out….Thanks for the music.
Greetings and salutations. I was overjoyed to stumble onto this page while looking for a song called ‘Let’s Find Each Other Tonight’ Tweedy covered recently in awesome Coen bros. inspired series Fargo. I couldn’t find it but a rather recent full from Jeff is certainly not a bad consolation prize! Thanks for doing this peerless service for mankind. I have some older Wilco and Tweedy stuff, live boots and otherwise, and looking forward to hearing some of the lovely Sukierae album live. ;)