Jeff Tweedy

Your Mama’s Kitchen

Higher Ground

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Singer and songwriter Jeff Tweedy discusses cherished memories from his childhood kitchen in Illinois,

and the invaluable time he spent at his kitchen table with his mother, and he explains how his favorite

home-cooked dish today–known simply as The Dish–became a Tweedy family hit.

Jeff Tweedy is an American songwriter, musician, and record producer best known as the singer and

guitarist of the band Wilco. Born and raised in Belleville, Illinois, Tweedy started his music career in high

school with Jay Farrar and their band The Plebes (which later became Uncle Tupelo). After Uncle

Tupelo's fourth studio album, the band broke up in 1994, prompting Tweedy to form Wilco. Wilco found

critical and commercial success on their albums Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and A Ghost Is Born; the latter

went on to receive a Grammy for Best Alternative Album in 2005. Across Tweedy's career, he has

released fifteen studio albums: four with Uncle Tupelo, ten with Wilco, and one with his son Spencer,

along with numerous collaborations with other musicians. He is the author of several books, including his

memoir Let’s Go (So We Can Get Back) and most recently, World Within a Song.

Tweedy lives with his wife, Sue Miller, in Chicago. They have two sons, Spencer and Sammy.

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0:00.0	This episode of your mama's kitchen includes conversations about addiction.
0:04.4	Please listen with care.
0:06.4	I think if we're just talking about a kitchen, then our kitchen growing up was the
0:21.2	only place people congregated. But it would be more over card games, be more over beers. It would be more over my mother and I, especially alone late at night, especially when I reached
0:35.2	adolescents, all of the heart-to-heart conversations would be sitting across
0:40.3	from each other at a yellow formica kitchen table.
0:43.7	Welcome to your mama's kitchen, the podcast that explores how we're shaped as adults by the kitchens
0:51.2	we grew up in as kids. I'm Michelle Norris. Today I'm talking
0:54.8	with singer, songwriter, guitarist, producer, and frontman of the beloved band Wilco
0:59.7	I'm talking about Jeff Teweedy. For more than 30 years, Jeff's heartfelt, delicate, and beautiful alt country and rock music has won him fans the world over,
1:09.0	beginning with his early band called Uncle Tupelo.
1:12.0	In the early 2000s, with the release of Wilco's album
1:14.8	Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and its catchy yet gentle hits like Jesus etc and
1:19.9	War on War, Jeff jumped into a new echelon of rock stardom, sold out stadiums, a huge and
1:26.7	devoted fan base, and a Grammy for Best Alternative Album for A Ghost is Born.
1:32.8	Jeff has a way with words, as a songwriter and as an author,
1:36.7	his recent memoir, World Within a Song,
1:39.6	had me laughing and crying,
1:41.6	and thinking deeply about his ability to find grace in even the most difficult
1:46.5	moments with the people we truly love.
1:48.6	Today Jeff is the devoted father of two boys and he's proud of a long and loving
1:57.6	marriage to his wife Susie. That kind of family stability is not the kind of
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