Jeff Tweedy Warm

Hope and compassion are not emotions people often associate with rock & roll -- joy, rebellion, fury, lust, and exhilaration are usually parts of the formula, but few people think of rock & roll as the equivalent of a warm hug from a good friend in a time of need. Jeff Tweedy wants to change that, or at least that seems to be the recurring theme of 2018's Warm, the Wilco founder's first solo album of original material. Tweedy has never been afraid to dwell on his introspective side, as far back as his days in Uncle Tupelo, and it takes center stage on Warm, which features 11 songs about the search for respite in a world where little seems to go right. The lyrics can be read as a reaction to personal crises (the death of Tweedy's father and his wife's ongoing medical problems) as well as the chaos that has erupted all around the globe in recent years, but either way, the common theme is that hard times are universal, and that we are not alone. Tweedy already wrote a song called