“Poor Places” by Wilco

"Poor Places" comes from Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, the fourth Wilco album and the one that nearly didn't come out: Reprise refused to release it, the band left the label with the rights in hand, streamed the whole thing free on their website in 2001, and Nonesuch finally put it in stores in April 2002. Jeff Tweedy wrote the words and sings lead, sharing the music credit with Jay Bennett, whose last Wilco album this was. Wilco produced it themselves and Jim O'Rourke mixed.

The sessions, begun in late 2000 and documented in the film I Am Trying to Break Your Heart, were fraught, with a change of drummer and arguments over the songs, but what came out was more atmospheric and experimental than anything the band had done. It is widely held to be one of the great albums of the 2000s.

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