Jeff Tweedy, Chicago, IL, 2000 Archival Pigment Print

Archival Pigment Print Signed and Numbered by the artist Edition of 50 16x20" or 20x24"     I remember the first time I ever laid eyes on Wilco’s loft, in Chicago. I had flown out to meet Jeff Tweedy and talk about a potential documentary I wanted to make on the band. We had dinner in an Italian restaurant, and afterwards, Jeff drove me around Lake Shore Drive playing early demos of songs that would end up on Yankee Hotel Foxtrot.  It was a cold night in November, and there were light flakes of snow dancing on the windshield as the songs filled the car. I was filled with excitement over the material, and also over Jeff’s enthusiasm for my pitch, which was to make a definitive documentary about the creative process of being a musician.   “Well, if you want to film the creative process, I guess you should see the loft,” Jeff said. It was late—maybe 2 AM at this point. We drove from downtown out to the loft, and Jeff led me up the stairs of a fairly typical and fairly ugly industrial buil