Greg Kot, Chicago music critic and author of the forthcoming Wilco biography has written two articles in this Sunday?s Chicago Tribune all about Rob Duffy?s fave band of not-so-merry men. The longer piece deals with the new disc in general but this shorter article deals primarily with Jeff Tweedy?s recent battles with migraines, anxiety and an addiction to painkillers.
Tweedy on the subject of his entering rehab a few months ago:
“I really didn’t think I would ever be normal again when I went in,” he says of that gray weekend in March. “I was begging them to institutionalize me. I didn’t want to kill myself, but I wanted to die.”
For the record, after my personally cool response to A Ghost Is Born I?ve given the album quite a few spins and realized that it is definitely an album to file in the ?growing on me? category.