A LIFE IN PICTURES

Jeff’s journey: understanding Tweedy.

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3D visionary: Tweedy (far left) in his junior year at Belleville High, Illinois, 1984.

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They got drunk: Uncle Tupelo, circa 1990 (from left) Jay Farrar, Tweedy, Mike Heidorn.

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Being there: Jeff with Wilco bandmate Jay Bennett, 1997. “An incredible asset… [he] could play a lot of instruments well.”

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Filming Wilco movie I Am Trying To Break Your Heart, 2002: “At that point the relationship in the studio was not a tenable one,” says Jeff.

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“Rock’n’roll is a ritual about an audience and a band providing something together”: Greek Theatre, Berkeley, CA, August 27, 2007.

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“The records get better and better”: Wilco, Chicago, 2005 (from left) Glenn Kotche, Nels Cline, Mikael Jorgensen, Tweedy, Pat Sansone, John Stirratt.

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With president-in-waiting and friend Barack Obama, then Senator for Illinois, at Farm Aid, September 18, 2005.

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Tweedy with son Spencer, a drummer who’s played on Jeff’s productions for such as Mavis Staples, 2014.

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“It seems so obvious that everybody is weak and struggling”: Tweedy in Holland, December 6, 1996.