Song · Wilco
“She's a Jar” by Wilco
From the album Summerteeth (1999)
“She's a Jar” by Wilco appears on 2 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 2001 and 2009. It was first released in 1999 on the album Summerteeth. Its best result is #154 on the WXPN 885 Desert Island Songs (2009). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #8,179 indie & aaa song of all time.
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"She's a Jar" comes from Summerteeth, the third Wilco album, which Reprise released in March 1999, and like most of that record it was written by Jeff Tweedy and Jay Bennett, who built the songs in the studio instead of cutting them live with the whole band.
Tweedy sings lead and plays acoustic guitar and harmonica, Bennett covers keyboards, electric guitar and tambourine and joins him on backing vocals, and John Stirratt on bass and Ken Coomer on drums hold it steady. Jim Scott mixed it. The album around it drew on 20th-century literature and on Tweedy's troubled marriage, and it was stacked high with Pro Tools overdubs, a long way from the band's earlier live-in-the-room approach.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 1908 | WFPK | WFPK 2001 Greatest Songs of All Time | 2000 |
| 2009 | 154 | WXPN | WXPN 885 Desert Island Songs (2009) | 885 |
Also listed as: She's A Jar.
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