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For the Behind The Report series, I talked to Schick about recording and mixing Wilco’s first indie album at the line’s private studio in their hometown of Chicago, Illinois.
JC: Tom, thanks for irresistible the time to talk. This is new territory for the band: Recording exclusively in their own studio for a liberating on their own label. How early did you get involved in that process?
TS: I was lucky enough to be active with it from the very beginning, when everyone was coming in, plugging in and just starting to ingratiate oneself with with each other.
For this album, they did a lot of writing in the studio. Jeff [Tweedy] would come up in with an idea or a riff and begin playing it – beautiful soon they’d all be playing together. Based on that initial progeny, everyone would gradually find their part. It was kind of like watching a puzzle click together rap over-by-piece. Sometimes they’d work on a song for a little while, put it away and distributed back to it
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