Song · Wilco
“Either Way” by Wilco
From the album Sky Blue Sky (2007)
“Either Way” by Wilco appears on 2 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 2013 and 2024. It was first released in 2007 on the album Sky Blue Sky. Its best result is #516 on The Best Opening Tracks of All Time.
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"Either Way" is from Sky Blue Sky, the sixth Wilco album, released on Nonesuch in May 2007, but the band had been road-testing it for a year by then. It was one of the new songs they slipped into their sets in April 2006, while still touring behind A Ghost Is Born, and a month later Glenn Kotche told Pitchfork those tunes were headed for demos.
Jeff Tweedy wrote it and sings it, and it shows off the new lineup, since this was the first Wilco studio record to feature Nels Cline and Pat Sansone. Cline and Tweedy share the electric guitars, Sansone adds Hammond organ, Mikael Jorgensen plays piano, John Stirratt and Kotche anchor bass and drums, and Karen Waltuch colors the edges with violin and viola. T.J. Doherty recorded it; Jim Scott mixed.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 773 | WXPN | WXPN 885 Greatest Songs of the New Millennium (2013) | 885 |
| 2024 | 516 | KEXP | The Best Opening Tracks of All Time | 738 |
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