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Sunday, August 2, 2009

I Am Trying To Break Your Heart

I am a sucker for quality music documentaries. No Direction Home, The Power of Song, and The Last Waltz all rank high among my favorite movies. But I had never seen a film so accurately depict the painstaking ordeal of making an album as I Am Trying To Break Your Heart: A Film About Wilco, a film by Sam Jones about Wilco.

The doc provides an unfiltered glimpse into the song writing, recording, production, and engineering of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, the breakthrough album for Wilco. Not only is the film's star, Jeff Tweedy, an endlessly entertaining, artistic and eccentric front man, but the film is blessed to capture one of the most high profile artist-record company disputes in recent years. I urge anybody who can truly appreciate great musicianship and the process of making a great record to check out the flick.
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  1. AlexanderAugust 3, 2009 at 10:31 PM

    Indeed a great film...I still haven't gotten around to listening to "Wilco the Album," but this post reminded me to torrent it right away. good looks

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