Jeff Tweedy covers Alvvays' "Pharmacist"

Over the weekend Jeff Tweedy updated his Starship Casual Substack with a cover of "Pharmacist", the lead single from Alvvays' Blue Rev album.

He wrote of the cover, "I learned this short and sweet beauty a little while ago, when it was released as a preview track for Alvvays’s new LP, Blue Rev. I love the unexpected C demolished chord in the chorus. If I understand these lyrics correctly, I think that chord (Cdim actually) makes the phrase "I hear it happens all the time" even more withering and full of delicious, pitying scorn. A diminished chord employed to diminish. Love it!"

Previously, Tweedy has also shared a solo acoustic and demo versions of Wilco songs, a demo adaptation of William Blake's How Sweet I Roam'd from Field to Field poem, and covers of songs by Grateful Dead, Townes Van Zandt, Japanese Breakfast, Mavis Staples, Angel Olsen, Joni Mitchell, Big Thief and more.