Name: Jeff Tweedy Debuts A New Song Inspired By One Of Stephen Colbert's Monologues - EXTENDED INTERVIEW
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My next guest tonight is a Grammy Award winning rock star and best selling author who is the lead singer of Wilco.

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Please welcome back to late Show your friend Jeff Tweedy.

You look like you're ready to mix an album right now.

Actually, a sound studio is actually fairly safe from co vid cause you got the sealed doors and everything.

Now, in March, while quarantine, your family started something called the Tweety Show.

I'll get the first question in just a moment.

But first this This was my first show in quarantine.

Here's your first show in quarantine in a bathtub.

You can only wear a suit once then you have to give it away.

I love that you're actually you're selling some tickets with sex right here.

Well, what is the Tweety show for the uninitiated you've done, you've done How, Maney?

Well, it's on my wife's instagram stuff in our house.

When everything got locked down and the tour got canceled, we came home.

Uh, Susie has a really good relationship with the fans online and stuff.

And she was telling me how how, how, how much people are already missing that connection and so sad about this shows that they were going to go to and s.

So she came over this idea of, like, maybe we could just, you know, a lot of them follow her on her instagram.

So maybe we could just reach, reach out to them a little bit and have a little live instagram show.

And I said, Okay, well, we can try it, and then she got so depressed one day that she wouldn't get out of bed, you know, and And we were supposed to start this show, and and I just said, You know what?

I'm going to take a bath If you want to do this show, that's where I'll be on it.

Got her, cheered her up a little bit, which made me feel good.

And she got out of bed and started filming me in the tub.

And before you knew it, there were a couple 100 people there already, and and it felt it felt really, uh um so that it was felt miraculous to be able to have that connection with that many people so immediately, it felt it felt right really fast that it was, You know, it's a nice thing to do to have some routine and normalcy and to just, you know, maintain this connection.

I think early on, even that it wasn't wasn't gonna be something that we have in our lives for a long time.

Well, you said 201 110 shows you've done so far.

But you you also recently performed at a drive in concert on September 18th.

How did it feel to play somewhere other than your couch or your tub for the first time since March?

Well, we were really, really looking forward to it.

It was, You know, I knew it was gonna be weird.

Uh, but then Ruth Bader Ginsburg died that night about an hour when we were supposed to go on stage.

It was a little cold, but, uh, you know, it was like a It just felt almost wrong to go.

They'll play, And, uh, we were looking forward to it so much.

And then it was like all of a sudden, everybody's crying and it was It was a It was a hard moment.

And, uh, my kids were gonna you know, it was like playing the show with my kids also.

So I was a dad in this moment of crisis and a person about to play music for people, and, um uh, I just I don't know, I'm really happy that I've had a lot of time in front of audiences and a lot of experiences in my life where I didn't feel like getting up and playing music cause I felt terrible for whatever reason, because I was able to tell the kids that, um, if you get up, you can get through the first couple of songs.

But it's going to make you realize that you can transcend this.

And, um, you know, we talked about how brave Ruth Bader Ginsburg was in her life and how she had faced so much.

Uh, I don't know, in terms of her health, in terms of being the you know what the A.

Nikon of, ah, political ideology that was at odds with a large portion of our culture or whatever.

I felt like we should be able to summon enough courage to go place, Um, some folk songs and it did, and I'll never forget it, because it was it was really amazing how it did work.

Music is, uh it is just so so healing and and it was being reminded of that all over again.

That recently has been been incredibly healing for me, too, because you have so many opportunities to, like be entertained in so many different ways today.

And especially if you get obsessed with the news like Ideo.

Sometimes I forget what music has has waiting for you if you just give it the time and that it's and it's and it's, um, it's in define a ble, but on the other side of it, you're better, right?

Well, I mean, I have an anxiety disorder, and and in my life, I've dealt with a lot of, um, moments pre going on stage where I didn't feel like I was.

So I had that repeatedly, uh, confirmed reconfirmed over and over again to me in my life that I could get up If I could get myself to this stage, it's gonna be pretty amazing, uh, to me within a few minutes, within songs that I'm gonna feel like myself again and it's all it always works it z pretty pretty, Uh, miraculously, I think it's the only word I can come up with it for.

Well, you've managed to produce another album in covert quarantine.

Um, well, I think my normal way of coping is to write music and write and be, you know, try and do something creative.

But I think when you know the weight of this was all hitting me at the beginning of the pandemic, I really wanted to write country songs.

I wanted to write country, uh, country songs because it's like comfort, comfort food.

To me, folk music country music is, I guess, at the core of how I think about music.

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