Ashes of American Flags: Wilco Live

Brendan Canty, Christoph Green:
Ashes of American Flags: Wilco Live (USA, 2009)
87 min. - English

Wilco, quite deservingly, is one of the most praised bands of our time. Album by album, the band manages to combine the undertone of the most impressive americana to avant-gardist battering in an original and surprising way. This band has had a long and winding road, but the warmly convincing vocalist and front man Jeff Tweedy has led Wilco through their personal turmoils to a state of massive respect around the world. Now Wilco are holding all the cards in their hands – they have their own studio and record label. Their latest album, The Whole Love, was released in September.

Wilco, although an immensely enjoyable listening experience already on their albums, rises to an exploding gallop onstage with talent and uncompromising devotion that only few can master. If you missed their praised gigs in Helsinki and Tampere last year, Brendan Canty and Christopher Green’s concert film Ashes of American Flags will serve as a definite consolation. And if you, for some odd reason, have not heard of Wilco yet, it is about time to change that – and what better way for it than experiencing the musical thrill on the big screen. Ashes of American Flags takes you on a road trip around the USA and offers not only a tasteful musical setting but also atmospheric sceneries, talks and backstage moments that bring the musicians’ joys and sorrows to the foreground. The film also brings new perspective into the changes Wilco have gone through over the years.

» wilcoworld.net

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