Cruel Country

by Wilco

Cruel Country cover art

Embracing the genre label they had historically actively avoided, the Chicago sextet recorded this expansive double album entirely live in their Loft studio with no overdubs. The stripped-back, predominantly acoustic arrangements provide a warm, pastoral bed for Jeff Tweedy's disillusioned observations on the splintering of American political identity.

Genres

  • Alt-Country
  • Singer-Songwriter

Tracklist

  1. I Am My Mother
  2. Cruel Country
  3. Hints
  4. Ambulance
  5. The Empty Condor
  6. Tonight's the Day
  7. All Across the World
  8. Darkness is Cheap
  9. Bird Without a Tail / Base of My Skull
  10. Tired of Taking It Out On You
  11. The Universe
  12. Many Worlds
  13. Hearts Hard to Find
  14. Falling Apart (Right Now)
  15. Please Be Wrong
  16. Story to Tell
  17. A Lifetime to Find
  18. Country Song Upside-down
  19. Mystery Binds
  20. Sad Kind of Way
  21. The Plains