I caught Jeff Tweedy on Farm Aid’s 2010 live streaming performance on YouTube unfortunately of the videos uploaded Jeff’s performance is not among them. Hopefully that will change because it was captivating. I put the concert on as background music and then ended up dropping everything and fully entranced within moments of Tweedy starting to play.
This song in particular struck a nerve with me. Leading me on quite the hunt to find any recording of him singing it solo online. This is actually the only one I could find and although it’s shaky the sound quality is good enough to get the feeling. It’s sad this solo isn’t available, I’ve listened to the recording of it with Mavis and also with Tweedy & Feist overseen by Beck but neither feel as good.
A few lines hit a real sensitive nerve which upon hearing certainly make me feel not so alone:
“…. Broken dream, broken heart, isolated and afraid ……. Open hand, open heart there’s no need to be afraid”
An “Open Heart” is such a beautiful way to combine an open wound and a broken heart.
Along with not being able to find many solo videos I can’t find a solo site for him to send you to either. If you haven’t heard of him before, he’s currently the lead for Wilco and use to be in Uncle Tupelo. So, when all else fails … here’s his Wikipedia link if you want to know more about him.
…..UPDATE 5 of his songs have been uploaded to the Farm Aid channel, however You Are Not Alone is still not among them. Of the ones uploaded Sunken Treasures is moving.
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Music is my savior.
sav·ior/ˈsāvyər/Noun
one that saves from danger or destruction