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Tim Hall <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> On 25 Jun 2004 05:07:48 -0700, [email protected] (Rory) wrote:
>
> >"Simon Mason" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> >> Yours truly is involved in this bizzare law suit!
> >>
> >> http://wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,63952,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_3
> >
> >Top band, Wilco, but did they pay Alex Chilton for recording Big
> >Star's "Thirteen", or did Irdial record it off the the radio and sell
> >it to them?
>
>
> Is this the same Wilco that made an album or two with the Big Nosed
> Bard From Barking, putting tunes to Woodie Guthrie lyrics?
That's them: not the best stuff Wilco or Billy Bragg have done, IMHO.
The newer stuff is is excellent, moving on from the Uncle Tupelo
alt.country to a more interesting place (for reference, I'm into
Train, Doves, Replacements, Pixies, Mescaleros kinda stuff...)
> On 25 Jun 2004 05:07:48 -0700, [email protected] (Rory) wrote:
>
> >"Simon Mason" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> >> Yours truly is involved in this bizzare law suit!
> >>
> >> http://wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,63952,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_3
> >
> >Top band, Wilco, but did they pay Alex Chilton for recording Big
> >Star's "Thirteen", or did Irdial record it off the the radio and sell
> >it to them?
>
>
> Is this the same Wilco that made an album or two with the Big Nosed
> Bard From Barking, putting tunes to Woodie Guthrie lyrics?
That's them: not the best stuff Wilco or Billy Bragg have done, IMHO.
The newer stuff is is excellent, moving on from the Uncle Tupelo
alt.country to a more interesting place (for reference, I'm into
Train, Doves, Replacements, Pixies, Mescaleros kinda stuff...)