Video: RIP Jay Bennett (formerly of WILCO) ~ Misunderstood

[MP3] Josh Ritter - Blame It On The Tetons With Modest Mouse releasing vinyls (all of which will culminate in the new No One's First and You're Next EP), I've been spinning some old tracks and fell back in love with one of my favorite covers. When Josh Ritter released his epic "Thin Blue Flame" single a few years back, it had a delicious b-side in the form of an enjoyable take on Brock's "Blame It On The Tetons". It had been awhile [...]

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• Josh Ritter - Blame It On the Tetons

After founding Titanic Love Affair, joining Wilco, and releasing a half dozen solo albums, guitarist and producer Jay Bennett died at age 45.

"We are profoundly saddened to report that our friend died in his sleep [Sataurday] night. Jay was a beautiful human being who will be missed." [ Undertow Music Collective ] As the LA Times points out , Undertow released Jay Bennett 's 2002 solo album, "Palace at 4 am (Part I)." In the late '80s, Bennett founded the rock band Titanic Love Affair in Urbana, Ill., which lasted into the mid-'90s. He was best known for his seven years in adventurous rock act Wilco . Bennett split from the [...]

The former Wilco guitarist and Titanic Love Affair founding member passed away in his sleep Saturday night. Bennett was a key contributor to the first half of Wilco's discography, and his contentious relationship with frontman Jeff Tweedy was famously chronicled in the film I Am Trying to Break Your Heart . A few weeks ago Bennett blogged that he was looking forward to completing another solo album Kicking at the Perfumed Air while recovering from an imminent hip replacement surgery, which he could no longer postpone despite being uninsured. Tweedy released this statement today: ""We [...]