Perhaps no songwriter epitomises that idea more than Woody Guthrie. As part of the Centennial celebrations surrounding his birth, the musician's estate decided to place several unseen, unheard and unrecorded lyrics in the hands of four young songwriters.

Many of them, not including me, followed Tweedy when he helped birth alt-country with bandmate and too-soon estranged Jay Farrar in Uncle Tupelo. Wilco sold out Chicago theaters year in and year out but never seeped far beyond the Midwest. Until, of...

Yames (AKA Jim James of My Morning Jacket), Jay Farrar (Son Volt, Uncle Tupelo), Will Johnson (Centro-matic, South San Gabriel), Anders Parker (Varnaline, Gob Iron) have made a record together called New Multitudes, an “interpretation” of Woody...

The album is a homage to Woody Guthrie and will feature interpretations of unrecorded Guthrie lyrics. Under the invitation of Guthrie’s daughter, Nora, each artist was allowed to go through the songwriter’s notebooks and scratch pads to gain insight on...

Opening Track, we take an early look at a forthcoming record that we’re excited about. Today, we check in with an Americana supergroup made up of Jay Farrar, Centro-Matic's Will Johnson, Varnaline's Anders Parkers, and My Morning Jacket's Jim James...

But given how Wilco came to be, it's understandable that the focus with Wilco usually falls to Tweedy. He formed Wilco in 1994 after the split of Uncle Tupelo, the influential country-inflected rock band that Tweedy co-fronted with Jay Farrar (now of...