Watch: Jeff Tweedy Performs ‘Twilight Override’ Tracks and Talks New Triple Record on ‘Colbert’
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Last night, Jeff Tweedy appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in support of his new triple record, Twilight Override, which arrived on September 26 via dBpm Records. During the televised appearance, the prolific lyricist who can pluck the heartstrings and simultaneously make you gag on the truth, performed “Enough” and “Lou Reed Was My Babysitter” as a bonus digital exclusive. Watch below.
Before the performance aspect of his late-night TV slot, Tweedy spoke with Colbert about the significance of the Twilight Override title as it relates to the current moment: “I think it just means a lot of things. There’s this sense of impending doom that I think a lot of people are feeling in this culture we are living in. I think there’s a twilight feeling. I love the word ‘twilight.’ I think it’s a beautiful word. Thirty years into my career, that could be described as a twilight, I think, by some people,” he resolves.
Colbert presses for added meaning, particularly as it relates to the second half of the record’s name, “And ‘override?’” To which the musician responds, “What I do to override that feeling… And we’ve talked about this a little before, I make music, I write songs, and I sing. And that sense of impending doom kind of goes away when I’m doing that.”
“In the writing and performing,” Colbert questions. “Everything,” responds Tweedy. “Everything that has anything to do with creating, making something. Then the twilight becomes–Well, is it morning?” He resolves, “And so it occurred to me, that’s kind of where you want to live, is that horizon where the light and the dark meet is where beauty lives. That’s all the colors that you want to be a part of, you want to be associated with.”
After discussing his latest undertaking, Wilco’s frontman performed a single off the three-part set, “Enough,” and later, as a bonus digital exclusive, the Velvet Underground-tinged “Lou Reed Was My Babysitter.” Watch below.
Jeff Tweedy talks to Relix about the new project in the forthcoming print. Subscribe here.
