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Jeff Tweedy’s music is shaped by drugs, anxiety and sobriety

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Drugs, anxiety and sobriety define Jeff Tweedy as much as his music

After losing their record label in 2002, Wilco released “Yankee Hotel Foxtrot” online, which ended up on a list of Rolling Stone’s top 500 albums of all time. But singer-songwriter Jeff Tweedy wrote in a new memoir “Let’s Go (So We Can Get Back),” that while gaining recognition for his talents, he had to start confronting a path toward sobriety. NewsHour Weekend’s Christopher Booker reports

11/17/2018

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