WEBVTT 00:00.533 --> 00:01.668 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% >> Sreenivasan: FOR NEARLY 25 00:01.668 --> 00:03.269 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% YEARS, THE BAND WILCO HAS BEEN 00:03.269 --> 00:05.038 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% BENDING THE EDGES OF ROCK, 00:05.038 --> 00:06.973 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% COUNTRY AND INDEPENDENT MUSIC. 00:06.973 --> 00:08.608 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% LONG A CRITICAL DARLING, THE 00:08.608 --> 00:10.377 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% GROUP HAS BUILT A LEGION OF FANS 00:10.377 --> 00:12.145 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% WITHOUT EVER SCORING A TOP TEN 00:12.145 --> 00:12.812 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% HIT. 00:12.812 --> 00:14.514 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% BUT WITH HIS NEW MEMOIR, THE 00:14.514 --> 00:16.049 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% SINGER, SONGWRITER AND WILCO 00:16.049 --> 00:17.650 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% FRONTMAN JEFF TWEEDY APPEARS TO 00:17.650 --> 00:19.486 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% HAVE A LITERARY HIT ON HIS 00:19.486 --> 00:20.186 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% HANDS. 00:20.186 --> 00:21.187 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% NEWSHOUR WEEKEND'S CHRISTOPHER 00:21.187 --> 00:22.322 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% BOOKER RECENTLY SAT DOWN WITH 00:22.322 --> 00:24.557 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% TWEEDY IN WILCO'S CHICAGO LOFT- 00:24.557 --> 00:26.659 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% STUDIO TO DISCUSS A MUSICAL 00:26.659 --> 00:28.461 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% CAREER SPENT WELL OUTSIDE THE 00:28.461 --> 00:30.330 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% USUAL BOUNDARIES. 00:30.330 --> 00:38.471 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% ♪ ♪ ♪ 00:38.471 --> 00:40.707 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% ♪ I DON'T EVER WANT A MOVIE OF 00:40.707 --> 00:42.142 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% THE GOSPEL... ♪ 00:42.142 --> 00:42.876 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% >> Reporter: EVEN AFTER 00:42.876 --> 00:44.344 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% RECORDING NEARLY 20 ALBUMS, 00:44.344 --> 00:46.246 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% WINNING TWO GRAMMYS, AND WRITING 00:46.246 --> 00:48.681 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% A NEARLY 300-PAGE MEMOIR, TRYING 00:48.681 --> 00:50.083 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% TO EXPLAIN WHERE IT ALL COMES 00:50.083 --> 00:52.185 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% FROM REMAINS AN ELUSIVE TASK FOR 00:52.185 --> 00:54.721 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% SINGER-SONGWRITER JEFF TWEEDY. 00:54.721 --> 00:56.656 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% >> IT'S ALL MYSTERIOUS STILL. 00:56.656 --> 00:59.025 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% I CAN'T EVEN EXPLAIN HOW PEOPLE 00:59.025 --> 01:01.561 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% CAN WHISTLE IN TUNE, YOU KNOW? 01:01.561 --> 01:02.495 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% I THINK, LIKE, YOU COULD READ 01:02.495 --> 01:04.030 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% EVERYTHING THAT I SAY 01:04.030 --> 01:05.598 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% AUTHORITATIVELY IN THE BOOK 01:05.598 --> 01:08.768 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% WITH A, "HUH?," YOU KNOW. 01:08.768 --> 01:09.836 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% YOU COULD PUT A QUESTION MARK AT 01:09.836 --> 01:10.770 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% THE END OF MOST OF THOSE 01:10.770 --> 01:12.272 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% SENTENCES. 01:12.272 --> 01:15.442 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% ♪ I LEAN ON A WALL 01:15.442 --> 01:19.079 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% LIKE A BROOM, CONFUSED 01:19.079 --> 01:22.582 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% ♪ BY THE SCOPE OF IT ALL 01:22.582 --> 01:26.553 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% ANY FOOL CAN TELL THE TRUTH. ♪ 01:26.553 --> 01:27.654 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% >> Reporter: TWEEDY'S MEMOIR, 01:27.654 --> 01:29.656 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% "LET'S GO (SO WE CAN GET BACK)," 01:29.656 --> 01:31.391 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% IS AN EXPLORATION OF CREATIVITY, 01:31.391 --> 01:33.126 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% MOTIVATION AND HERITAGE-- THE 01:33.126 --> 01:34.427 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% STORY OF A CHILD OF AN ALCOHOLIC 01:34.427 --> 01:36.162 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% FATHER; THE STARTS AND STOPS OF 01:36.162 --> 01:37.764 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% MUSICAL STARDOM; AND THE 01:37.764 --> 01:39.299 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% STRUGGLE AGAINST ANXIETY, 01:39.299 --> 01:41.134 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% DEPRESSION AND ADDICTION. 01:41.134 --> 01:43.002 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% IN A LOT OF WAYS, THE BOOK ISN'T 01:43.002 --> 01:44.204 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% JUST WORKING TO PULL BACK THE 01:44.204 --> 01:45.538 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% CURTAIN BUT ALMOST REMOVE THE 01:45.538 --> 01:46.706 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% CURTAIN ALL TOGETHER. 01:46.706 --> 01:48.007 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% >> YEAH, I REJECT THE PREMISE OF 01:48.007 --> 01:49.776 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% THE CURTAIN TO BEGIN WITH. 01:49.776 --> 01:51.644 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% I'VE ALWAYS FELT LIKE THE MORE 01:51.644 --> 01:54.481 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% HUMAN THE MUSICIANS THAT I LOVE 01:54.481 --> 01:57.050 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% HAVE BECOME TO ME, THE MORE I 01:57.050 --> 02:00.987 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% HAVE FELT EMPOWERED TO BE A... 02:00.987 --> 02:02.122 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% A MUSICIAN OR AN ARTIST. 02:02.122 --> 02:02.789 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% >> Reporter: THE YOUNGEST OF 02:02.789 --> 02:04.324 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% FOUR KIDS, TWEEDY WAS RAISED IN 02:04.324 --> 02:06.025 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% BELLEVILLE, ILLINOIS, AN OLD 02:06.025 --> 02:07.494 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% MANUFACTURING TOWN ABOUT 20 02:07.494 --> 02:09.496 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% MILES OUTSIDE OF ST. LOUIS. 02:09.496 --> 02:10.330 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% HIS FATHER WORKED FOR THE 02:10.330 --> 02:11.798 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% RAILROAD, HIS MOTHER DESIGNED 02:11.798 --> 02:12.966 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% KITCHENS FOR A LOCAL CABINET 02:12.966 --> 02:14.267 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% MANUFACTURER. 02:14.267 --> 02:15.502 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% >> MY MOM AND DAD WERE BOTH 02:15.502 --> 02:19.672 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% REALLY, REALLY SMART, AND IT WAS 02:19.672 --> 02:21.441 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% RECOGNIZED, BUT NOT IN THE 02:21.441 --> 02:23.076 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% TRADITIONAL WAY, YOU KNOW. 02:23.076 --> 02:24.043 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% THAT'S THE THING I'VE REALLY 02:24.043 --> 02:25.778 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% LOOKED BACK AND PROBABLY PUT 02:25.778 --> 02:26.813 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% TOGETHER FOR THE FIRST TIME 02:26.813 --> 02:28.314 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% IN... TIME IN MY LIFE RECENTLY 02:28.314 --> 02:29.916 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% IS, LIKE, "OH, I'VE... I'VE HAD 02:29.916 --> 02:31.784 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% A LIFE VERY SIMILAR TO THEM." 02:31.784 --> 02:33.186 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% I DIDN'T REALLY MAKE IT MUCH 02:33.186 --> 02:34.921 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% PAST HIGH SCHOOL, BUT I TAUGHT 02:34.921 --> 02:36.122 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% MYSELF A TRADE. 02:36.122 --> 02:36.856 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% >> Reporter: TWEEDY'S TRADE 02:36.856 --> 02:37.957 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% STARTED WITH A LOVE OF PUNK 02:37.957 --> 02:39.993 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% ROCK-- BANDS LIKE THE RAMONES, 02:39.993 --> 02:41.461 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% THE CLASH AND THE MINUTEMEN. 02:41.461 --> 02:42.862 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% A BICYCLE ACCIDENT KEPT HIM 02:42.862 --> 02:44.697 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% INDOORS FOR AN ENTIRE SUMMER. 02:44.697 --> 02:46.032 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% TO PASS THE TIME, HE PICKED UP 02:46.032 --> 02:47.267 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% THE GUITAR STASHED IN HIS 02:47.267 --> 02:48.501 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% CLOSET. 02:48.501 --> 02:50.203 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% AS A TEENAGER, HE PLAYED IN A 02:50.203 --> 02:51.871 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% NUMBER OF BANDS BEFORE CO- 02:51.871 --> 02:53.540 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% FOUNDING UNCLE TUPELO, A 02:53.540 --> 02:54.707 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% CRITICAL DARLING OF THE EARLY 02:54.707 --> 02:56.176 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% '90s CREDITED WITH SPAWNING AN 02:56.176 --> 02:58.545 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% ENTIRE NEW GENRE OF MUSIC: ALT- 02:58.545 --> 02:59.345 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% COUNTRY. 02:59.345 --> 03:00.580 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% BUT AFTER FOUR ALBUMS, HIS 03:00.580 --> 03:02.048 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% PARTNER AND CHILDHOOD FRIEND, 03:02.048 --> 03:03.616 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% JAY FARRAR, ANNOUNCED HE WAS NO 03:03.616 --> 03:04.784 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% LONGER INTERESTED IN MAKING 03:04.784 --> 03:06.186 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% MUSIC WITH TWEEDY AND THAT HE 03:06.186 --> 03:07.453 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% WAS LEAVING THE BAND. 03:07.453 --> 03:08.621 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% >> I WAS REALLY HURT BY UNCLE 03:08.621 --> 03:11.090 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% TUPELO ENDING THE WAY IT ENDED. 03:11.090 --> 03:12.358 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% AND THEN, IT JUST, LIKE, KIND OF 03:12.358 --> 03:14.227 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% LIKE A PRACTICAL NOTION OF, 03:14.227 --> 03:16.196 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% LIKE, "WELL, NOTHING I CAN DO 03:16.196 --> 03:17.664 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% ABOUT THAT NOW. 03:17.664 --> 03:19.065 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% THAT'S OVER WITH." 03:19.065 --> 03:21.334 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% AND THEN, IT DAWNING ON ME: THAT 03:21.334 --> 03:23.102 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% PRESENTS OPPORTUNITY SOMEHOW. 03:23.102 --> 03:25.371 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% YOU KNOW, AS A... AS A CHILD 03:25.371 --> 03:27.707 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% OF... OF AN ALCOHOLIC OR AN 03:27.707 --> 03:29.242 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% ENVIRONMENT OF ALCOHOLISM, 03:29.242 --> 03:30.443 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% THERE'S A LOT OF 03:30.443 --> 03:32.278 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% UNPREDICTABILITY. 03:32.278 --> 03:33.713 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% EVEN THOUGH MY DAD'S ROUTINE WAS 03:33.713 --> 03:35.448 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% PREDICTABLE, HIS MOODS WERE 03:35.448 --> 03:36.282 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% UNPREDICTABLE. 03:36.282 --> 03:38.084 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% WHICH INHIBITS, I THINK, A LOT 03:38.084 --> 03:40.853 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% OF FEELING COMFORTABLE WITH YOUR 03:40.853 --> 03:42.822 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% PROJECTION OF THE FUTURE. 03:42.822 --> 03:43.990 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% THAT'S PROBABLY WHERE IT REALLY 03:43.990 --> 03:45.825 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% COMES FROM, IS, LIKE, HAVE... 03:45.825 --> 03:49.162 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% HAVING A... HAVING TO ADAPT TO 03:49.162 --> 03:50.330 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% YOUR BEST PROJECTION OF THE 03:50.330 --> 03:52.165 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% FUTURE NOT REALLY WORKING OUT. 03:52.165 --> 03:54.334 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% ♪ 03:54.334 --> 03:55.001 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% >> Reporter: FOR TWEEDY, THE 03:55.001 --> 03:56.269 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% ADAPTATION THAT FOLLOWED UNCLE 03:56.269 --> 03:57.837 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% TUPELO WAS THE FORMATION OF 03:57.837 --> 03:58.638 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% WILCO. 03:58.638 --> 04:02.609 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% ♪ 04:02.609 --> 04:04.477 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% A LOT OF WILCO'S HISTORY IS 04:04.477 --> 04:05.912 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% HERE? 04:05.912 --> 04:06.246 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% >> YEAH. 04:06.246 --> 04:08.481 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% THIS IS, LIKE, YOU KNOW, 20 04:08.481 --> 04:12.318 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% YEARS OR SO WE'VE BEEN HERE, AND 04:12.318 --> 04:15.188 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% ALMOST EVERYTHING FROM "YANKEE 04:15.188 --> 04:18.224 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% HOTEL FOXTROT" ON HAS HAD AT 04:18.224 --> 04:21.027 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% LEAST A PART OF THE RECORD 04:21.027 --> 04:23.529 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% WORKED ON HERE OR RECORDED HERE. 04:23.529 --> 04:24.297 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% ♪ SHE FELL IN LOVE WITH A 04:24.297 --> 04:25.031 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% DRUMMER 04:25.031 --> 04:26.299 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% ♪ SHE FELL IN LOVE WITH A 04:26.299 --> 04:27.767 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% DRUMMER... ♪ 04:27.767 --> 04:28.534 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% >> Reporter: BUT AS THE 51-YEAR- 04:28.534 --> 04:30.169 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% OLD RECOUNTS, THIS PATH WAS BY 04:30.169 --> 04:31.904 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% NO MEANS SIMPLE AND TIDY. 04:31.904 --> 04:32.939 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% WHILE THEIR FAN BASE AND 04:32.939 --> 04:34.641 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% CRITICAL ACCLAIM GREW STEADILY 04:34.641 --> 04:36.376 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% DURING THEIR EARLY YEARS, WILCO 04:36.376 --> 04:37.543 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% WAS FAMOUSLY DROPPED BY THEIR 04:37.543 --> 04:39.212 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% RECORD LABEL AFTER THEY REFUSED 04:39.212 --> 04:41.414 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% TO ALTER 2002'S "YANKEE HOTEL 04:41.414 --> 04:43.516 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% FOXTROT." 04:43.516 --> 04:44.784 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% THE PROCESS WAS CAPTURED IN THE 04:44.784 --> 04:46.286 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% DOCUMENTARY, "I AM TRYING TO 04:46.286 --> 04:49.222 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% BREAK YOUR HEART." 04:49.222 --> 04:51.391 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% >> ULTIMATELY, WHAT IT CAME DOWN 04:51.391 --> 04:53.593 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% TO IS, THEY TOLD JEFF TWEEDY, 04:53.593 --> 04:54.894 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% "WE DON'T LIKE YOUR ALBUM, WE 04:54.894 --> 04:56.195 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% DON'T WANT TO RELEASE IT." 04:56.195 --> 04:59.666 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% ♪ 04:59.666 --> 05:00.433 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% >> Reporter: FOR THE BAND, THE 05:00.433 --> 05:02.001 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% ALBUM WAS A NEW DIRECTION, 05:02.001 --> 05:03.102 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% MOVING FROM THEIR ALT-COUNTRY 05:03.102 --> 05:04.937 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% BASE TO EXPERIMENTAL ALTERNATIVE 05:04.937 --> 05:05.672 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% ROCK. 05:05.672 --> 05:06.706 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% BUT THE LABEL DIDN'T HEAR A HIT 05:06.706 --> 05:07.607 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% SINGLE. 05:07.607 --> 05:08.875 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% RELEASED ONLINE AND IN STORES 05:08.875 --> 05:10.510 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% UNDER A NEW LABEL, THE ALBUM WAS 05:10.510 --> 05:12.578 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% CERTIFIED GOLD IN 2002, AND 05:12.578 --> 05:14.013 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% "ROLLING STONE" MAGAZINE NOW 05:14.013 --> 05:15.515 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% RANKS "YANKEE HOTEL FOXTROT" 05:15.515 --> 05:17.283 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% AMONGST THE TOP 500 ALBUMS OF 05:17.283 --> 05:18.351 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% ALL-TIME. 05:18.351 --> 05:19.485 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% THE SUCCESS OF "YANKEE HOTEL 05:19.485 --> 05:20.887 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% FOXTROT" WAS FOLLOWED TWO YEARS 05:20.887 --> 05:22.488 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% LATER BY THE GRAMMY-WINNING "A 05:22.488 --> 05:24.223 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% GHOST IS BORN," CEMENTING THE 05:24.223 --> 05:25.758 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% BAND'S STATUS AS A FORCE IN 05:25.758 --> 05:26.859 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% AMERICAN MUSIC. 05:26.859 --> 05:27.894 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% BUT THERE WAS LITTLE JOY FOR 05:27.894 --> 05:29.028 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% TWEEDY. 05:29.028 --> 05:29.996 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% IN THE LATE '90s, HE HAD BEGUN 05:29.996 --> 05:31.864 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% TAKING VICODIN, AT FIRST TO 05:31.864 --> 05:32.932 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% ALLEVIATE SYMPTOMS FROM 05:32.932 --> 05:34.200 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% MIGRAINES, DEPRESSION AND 05:34.200 --> 05:35.335 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% ANXIETY. 05:35.335 --> 05:36.502 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% BY THE TIME THE BAND ENTERED THE 05:36.502 --> 05:38.504 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% STUDIO IN THE FALL OF 2003 TO 05:38.504 --> 05:40.473 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% RECORD "A GHOST IS BORN," HE WAS 05:40.473 --> 05:41.774 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% BATTLING A FULL-TIME OPIOID 05:41.774 --> 05:43.176 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% ADDICTION. 05:43.176 --> 05:45.111 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% >> YOU KNOW, 15, 16 YEARS AGO, 05:45.111 --> 05:46.446 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% IT USED TO BE ON A NIGHTLY 05:46.446 --> 05:49.982 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% BASIS, BEING IN A DEBILITATED 05:49.982 --> 05:51.951 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% HEAP, CRYING ON THE FLOOR 05:51.951 --> 05:54.420 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% MOMENTS BEFORE WALKING ON STAGE, 05:54.420 --> 05:54.987 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% YOU KNOW. 05:54.987 --> 05:56.489 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% JUST REALLY, REALLY STRUGGLING 05:56.489 --> 05:59.525 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% TO GET THROUGH THE FIRST FEW 05:59.525 --> 06:00.293 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% SONGS. 06:00.293 --> 06:01.094 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% >> Reporter: UPON COMPLETION OF 06:01.094 --> 06:02.428 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% "A GHOST IS BORN," TWEEDY QUIT 06:02.428 --> 06:04.497 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% OPIOIDS COLD TURKEY. 06:04.497 --> 06:05.431 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% BUT IN THE WEEKS THAT FOLLOWED, 06:05.431 --> 06:06.733 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% HE SUFFERED A MENTAL COLLAPSE 06:06.733 --> 06:08.468 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% AND CHECKED HIMSELF INTO AN 06:08.468 --> 06:09.869 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% INTENSIVE INPATIENT TREATMENT 06:09.869 --> 06:11.371 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% CENTER IN CHICAGO. 06:11.371 --> 06:12.772 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% DID YOU FIND WRITING THE BOOK 06:12.772 --> 06:14.874 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% AND KIND OF CHRONICLING IT THIS 06:14.874 --> 06:16.409 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% WAY, DID IT CHANGE THE WAY YOU 06:16.409 --> 06:18.644 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% THINK ABOUT YOUR ADDICTION? 06:18.644 --> 06:21.414 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% >> NO, I DON'T THINK IT DID. 06:21.414 --> 06:22.915 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% I THINK... I'VE HAD THE... 06:22.915 --> 06:23.783 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% THAT'S THE THING I'VE THOUGHT 06:23.783 --> 06:25.351 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% ABOUT THE MOST FOR THE PAST 15 06:25.351 --> 06:27.553 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% YEARS, PROBABLY, IS WHAT I NEED 06:27.553 --> 06:31.057 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% TO DO NEXT TO STAY HEALTHY OR TO 06:31.057 --> 06:33.359 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% STAY SOBER, OR HOWEVER YOU WANT 06:33.359 --> 06:36.396 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% TO PUT IT. 06:36.396 --> 06:38.064 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% I'M A BIG BELIEVER IN WHEN 06:38.064 --> 06:39.065 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% THINGS GET A LITTLE BIT 06:39.065 --> 06:41.667 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% OVERWHELMING, TO SLOW YOURSELF 06:41.667 --> 06:43.069 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% DOWN AND... AND THINK OF WHAT 06:43.069 --> 06:45.138 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% THE NEXT RIGHT THING TO DO IS. 06:45.138 --> 06:46.072 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% AND I HAVE ALL THIS EVIDENCE 06:46.072 --> 06:48.408 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% FROM MANY MORE YEARS OF... OF 06:48.408 --> 06:52.145 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% MY... OF LIVING THAT REASSURES 06:52.145 --> 06:53.546 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% ME I'M... I'M PROBABLY GOING TO 06:53.546 --> 06:54.914 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% BE OKAY, I'M PROBABLY GOING TO 06:54.914 --> 06:57.116 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% MAKE IT THROUGH THIS. 06:57.116 --> 07:02.088 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% ♪ 07:02.088 --> 07:03.189 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% >> Reporter: BEING OKAY HAS ALSO 07:03.189 --> 07:04.891 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% MEANT BEING PROLIFIC. 07:04.891 --> 07:05.925 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% IN THE YEARS SINCE HIS TIME IN 07:05.925 --> 07:07.460 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% THE HOSPITAL, WILCO HAS RELEASED 07:07.460 --> 07:09.429 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% FIVE STUDIO ALBUMS, LAUNCHED ITS 07:09.429 --> 07:10.830 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% OWN MUSIC FESTIVAL IN WESTERN 07:10.830 --> 07:12.632 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% MASSACHUSETTS; WHILE JEFF TWEEDY 07:12.632 --> 07:13.933 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% HAS ALSO PRODUCED A NUMBER OF 07:13.933 --> 07:15.935 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% ALBUMS WITH GOSPEL LEGEND MAVIS 07:15.935 --> 07:18.538 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% STAPLES, RELEASED A SOLO ALBUM 07:18.538 --> 07:19.572 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% AS WELL AS AN ALBUM WITH HIS 07:19.572 --> 07:21.674 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% SIDE PROJECT, TWEEDY, A DUO WITH 07:21.674 --> 07:23.676 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% HIS OLDEST SON, SPENCER. 07:23.676 --> 07:24.510 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% AT THE END OF THIS MONTH, HE 07:24.510 --> 07:25.778 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% WILL RELEASE HIS SECOND SOLO 07:25.778 --> 07:27.013 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% ALBUM. 07:27.013 --> 07:29.549 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% >> THERE ISN'T, LIKE, A... A 07:29.549 --> 07:33.019 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% CAREER GOAL THAT I'M LIKE, "OH, 07:33.019 --> 07:35.054 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% I WANT TO ACHIEVE THIS." 07:35.054 --> 07:38.057 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% IT'S... I REALLY VERY SIMPLY 07:38.057 --> 07:41.327 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% JUST... I LIKE BEING ENGAGED IN 07:41.327 --> 07:43.196 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% A CREATIVE PROCESS. 07:43.196 --> 07:44.597 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% I FEEL SUSTAINED BY IT. 07:44.597 --> 07:45.865 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% I FEEL GOOD ABOUT IT. 07:45.865 --> 07:47.867 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% ♪ 07:47.867 --> 07:50.837 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% I LOVE THAT FEELING OF BEING 07:50.837 --> 07:54.607 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% UNBURDENED BY SELF, OR UN... YOU 07:54.607 --> 07:56.275 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% KNOW, YOU CAN REALLY GET IN A 07:56.275 --> 07:58.211 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% SUPER MEDITATIVE STATE IN, LIKE, 07:58.211 --> 08:00.213 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% IN THE ACT OF CREATION THAT... 08:00.213 --> 08:01.747 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% THAT I DON'T KNOW WHERE TO... I 08:01.747 --> 08:05.218 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% DON'T FIND IT ANYWHERE ELSE. 08:03.749 --> 08:05.251 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% ♪