Jeff Tweedy shares new single, "Lou Reed Was My Babysitter"
Jeff Tweedy has releases the new single, “Lou Reed Was My Babysitter”, which is taken from his forthcoming triple album, Twilight Override.
Jeff Tweedy says the song’s title references “the joy in this dark music that Lou Reed made, and the beautiful conflict that it creates when you try and analyze it. And how it was such a positive force for so many people. ‘My life was saved by rock and roll’—Lou Reed is saying the same thing. I was babysat by fucking Lou Reed, literally, in my bedroom as a 10-year-old, 12-year-old kid. His music was a more legitimate mentor to me than most of my teachers.”
Twilight Override was recorded and self-produced by Tweedy at his Chicago studio, The Loft, with engineering and mixing from Tom Schick, Twilight Override features Chicago-based friends and family: James Elkington, Sima Cunningham, Macie Stewart, Liam Kazar, and Tweedy’s children Spencer and Sammy.
Twilight Override, will be released on 26 September via dBpm Records, and is available to pre-order now.
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