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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jeff Tweedy is known to fans as a prolific songwriter and poignant lyricist. Perhaps ironically, that fear is in part what compelled a young Tweedy to start writing music four decades ago. But as he gears up to release his third book on Tuesday, Tweedy admits the task of writing no longer daunts him the way it once did. “I think that there was something really important about the way my generation and previous generations invested themselves in music. While the discomfort is at times distracting for him, he says the act of performing does, for brief moments, make him forget.

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☆ Think You Don’t Like Something? Try Listening Closer - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-02 | by ( Jeff Tweedy | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

And at the time that “Dancing Queen” came out, it wasn’t hard to hate a disco song, anyway — disco was despised by practically everyone I knew (with the exception of the kids who liked to roller skate). To this day, whenever I think I dislike a piece of music, I think about “Dancing Queen” and am humbled. And even then, if I don’t like something, I make a mental note to try it again in 10 years. Melodies as pure and evocative as the one in “Dancing Queen” don’t come along every day, and I mourn every single moment I missed loving this song. Playing it again as I write this, making up for lost spins, I feel overcome with gratitude for its existence.

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☆ Jeff Tweedy Used to Browse Encyclopedias for Hours on End
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-02 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

The book takes somewhere around 300 texts of other books and compiles them into a narrative with no humans. Describe your ideal reading experience. My ideal reading experience is almost the same as my ideal writing experience. When you’re writing in a certain frame of mind, you kind of lose yourself and time disappears, or expands. To me, when you’re reading properly and are really invested, time does the same thing.

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☆ The Surprising Song That Changed Jeff Tweedy’s Life
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-29 | by ( Natalia Barr | Photography David Kasnic For Wsj. Magazine | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ 8 New Songs You Should Hear Now
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-08 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

“A Vivir en Desacuerdo.” (translation: “To Live in Disagreement.”) is a welcoming introduction to her alluringly off-kilter sound. (Listen on YouTube)4. (Actually, I listened to it as an audiobook, which I would recommend because there are times when Tweedy actually sings to explain a point he’s making.) “Evicted” is stomping, twangy and rife with bruised emotions, as Tweedy sings, “I’d laugh until I died if it wasn’t my life, if it wasn’t me in the mirror.” (Listen on YouTube)7. (Listen on YouTube)

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