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Encyclopedia > Loose Fur

Loose Fur is an American rock band comprised of Wilco members Jeff Tweedy and Glenn Kotche, and musician/producer Jim O'Rourke. They have released one album, Loose Fur (2003), with a new album, Born Again in the USA, due on March 21, 2006. Both records have (or will have) been released on the Drag City record label. Rock is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars, and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles, however saxophones have been omitted from newer subgenres of rock music since the 90s. ... Wilco is an American contemporary rock band. ... Jeff Tweedy (born August 25, 1967 in Belleville, Illinois, United States) is an American songwriter, musician, and poet best known for his work with the genre-bending group Wilco. ... Glen Kotche is an American drummer, best known for his involvement in Wilco. ... Jim ORourke can refer to two different people: Jim ORourke, the baseball player. ... Drag City is an independent record label in the United States. ...


Band history

The genesis of Loose Fur began in May 2000, when Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy asked multi-instrumentalist Jim O'Rourke to play with him at Chicago's Noise Pop festival. A few days before the festival, Tweedy and O'Rourke rehearsed together at the Wilco loft, and O'Rourke invited his friend, drummer Glenn Kotche along. There they worked on several new songs for Tweedy's May 14 performance at the Double Door (and which later appeared on their self-titled album in 2003). Tweedy was so invigorated from working with both O'Rourke and Kotche, that he brought them into his Wilco family soon after: Kotche became Wilco's new drummer (replacing Ken Coomer), and O'Rourke produced their landmark Yankee Hotel Foxtrot album. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is a 2002 album by Wilco. ...


In 2005, the trio wrote and recorded songs for a new album, and on November 17, 2005, they appeared together during a solo Tweedy show in New York, where they performed "Laminated Cat" from their first album and a new song, "The Ruling Class" from their upcoming album.


Discography

  • Loose Fur - (January 28, 2003) Laminated Cat, Elegant Transaction, So Long, You Were Wrong, Liquidation Totale, Chinese Apple
  • Born Again in the USA - (March 21, 2006) Hey Chicken, The Ruling Class, Answers to Your Questions, Apostolic, Stupid as the Sun, Pretty Sparks, An Ecumenical Matter, Thou Shalt Wilt, Wreckroom, Wanted

January 28 is the 28th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... March 21 is the 80th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (81st in leap years). ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

External links

  • Billboard article: Loose Fur 'Born Again' On Sophomore CD
  • AllMusic.com Loose Fur page
  • Loose Fur at Drag City

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* Dusted Reviews - Loose Fur * (629 words)
Using songs that they kicked around for years, the first Loose Fur album showed Tweedy and O’Rourke -- songwriters who had previously felt the need to reinvent themselves with each step -- idling for a little bit longer on their respective solo breakthroughs.
The name of the project summed it up pretty clearly: Loose Fur could be both a description of the material and a joke-y pun on rock’n’roll satanic references.
Granted, Tweedy and O’Rourke seem unable to shed the respective weight of their personalities, but in the same token, Loose Fur seems to be about these musicians reveling in their own skin, rather than trying to eschew and annihilate them as in their other projects.
Loose Fur: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more ||| Music.com (410 words)
Though O'Rourke, Tweedy, and Kotche share songwriting credits on all six of Loose Fur 's shambling, largely acoustic tracks, their individual musical identities -- particularly Tweedy and O'Rourke's -- still bubble to top occasionally, most notably on the album's first two songs.
On the rest of Loose Fur, the trio's creative energies are more evenly blended, albeit in quirky ways: the pretty, abstractly romantic "Chinese Apple" mixes sleepy, Tweedy-driven vocals with lilting guitars that bear a little more of O'Rourke's stamp than the Wilco frontman's.
The rambling instrumental "Liquidation Totale" represents all of Loose Fur 's strengths and shortcomings: When three musicians sound this natural together, it's hard for them to know when to quit.
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