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Loose Fur
List Price : $15.98 USD
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ProductGroup: Music
Release Date : 2003-01-28
Studio : Drag City
Label : Drag City
Avg. Customer Rating :  (26 reviews)
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The genesis seed for YHF
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Maybe calling Loose Fur a supergroup is a bit reaching, especially since none of its participants, aside from maybe Jeff Tweedy, has actually helmed a major act in the traditional sense. In other words, Traveling Wilburys this ain't...which is probably a good thing, if truth be known. Yet like the Wilburys, there is a casual nay "loose" quality to the six songs on this album that are nothing if not charming and well arranged, with the three Tweedy sung compositions being the highlights.
What's more intriguing about this album is in hearing the stylistic seeds of what would become Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. As such, a song on the Loose Fur debut like "Laminated Cat" hails from an earlier YHF outtake called "Not For The Season," and while the Loose Fur debut was released in 2003, it was recorded in the summer of 2000 and, in fact, corresponds somewhat with the YHF sessions; to the point that both Jim O'Rourke and Glenn Kotche from the Loose Fur trio would end up replacing members of Wilco, with O'Rourke taking on a significant role as co-producer of YHF. Adding to the cross-pollenation, as producer and remixer, O'Rourke removed many of the previous contributions of other Wilco members so that several YHF songs would only feature the music of Tweedy, Kotche, and himself, i.e. Loose Fur.
All in all, though, this album stands on its own. Fun, interesting, and well worth the price of admission. But for those who hanker for the wonder that is Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, this album stands as both a precursory and taster for what was already cooking in Jeff Tweedy's brain in the warmer months of 2000.
Customer Reviews for Loose Fur Cd
i play this all the time
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okay..im a fussy bugger..most so called great bands of the last 30 years, simply bore me stupid...but wilco are the one exception,i love all their albums in a major way..the same way i love dylan and neil young..i also highy recommend most of the jim orourke albums..insignificence and eureka and bad timing are lost masterpeices..but The LOOSE FUR album is simply a total masterpeice..in 20 years it will be one of those BURIED TREASURES, that magazines like mojo will be writing about..as great as yankee foxtrot..and some of tweedy,s best songs...buy this reocrd
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