{"id":807660,"date":"2020-05-21T05:28:12","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T11:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=1003501"},"modified":"2020-05-21T05:28:12","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T11:28:12","slug":"wilco-perform-new-song-tell-your-friends-acoustic-version-of-jesus-etc-on-the-late-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/wilco-perform-new-song-tell-your-friends-acoustic-version-of-jesus-etc-on-the-late-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilco Perform New Song \u2018Tell Your Friends,\u2019 Acoustic Version of \u2018Jesus, Etc.\u2019 on \u2018The Late Show\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-21-at-7.24.19-AM.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/wilco\/\">Wilco<\/a> premiered a new song, \u201cTell Your Friends,\u201d for their at-home performance on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/late-show-with-stephen-colbert\"><em>The<\/em><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/late-show-with-stephen-colbert\/\" id=\"auto-tag_late-show-with-stephen-colbert\" data-tag=\"late-show-with-stephen-colbert\">Late Show With Stephen Colbert<\/a> on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p><em>Each member of the band performed the song via livestream surrounded by their spouses, children and pets. The song celebrates the joy and reassurance of being able to reunite with your friends at the end of this pandemic: \u201cDon\u2019t forget to tell your friends\/This is going to end\/Oh, and I needed you.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cTell Your Friends\u201d is available for purchase <a href=\"https:\/\/wilcohq.bandcamp.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">exclusively on Bandcamp<\/a>, and all proceeds from the single will go toward Jos\u00e9 Andr\u00e9s\u2019 organization World Central Kitchen, which is providing meals and other relief in the wake of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/covid-19\/\">COVID-19<\/a> pandemic.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"embed-youtube\" readability=\"11.593073593074\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MJF6BunIdF0?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" readability=\"23.186147186147\"><\/p>\n<p>In addition to the new single, Wilco frontman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/jeff-tweedy\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jeff-tweedy\" data-tag=\"jeff-tweedy\">Jeff Tweedy<\/a> stuck around to play a solo acoustic version of one of the band\u2019s best-known songs, \u201cJesus, Etc.\u201d This isn\u2019t the first stripped-down quarantine performance Tweedy has done; in March, he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/jeff-tweedy-evergreen-kimmel-975630\/\">performed \u201cEvergreen\u201d<\/a> with his two sons, Sam and Spencer, in a green-tiled bathroom for&nbsp;<em>Jimmy Kimmel Live!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Wilco released their 11th album, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/wilcos-provisionally-anti-depressant-ode-to-joy-893843\/\"><em>Ode to Joy<\/em><\/a>, last October. The band <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/wilco-chicago-basketball-court-show-969014\/\">recently shared<\/a>&nbsp;a video of a concert the band performed at a Chicago basketball court last December along with a Q&amp;A. Tweedy released&nbsp;<em>Warmer<\/em>, his third solo effort, last April, and contributed the song <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/norah-jones-new-album-jeff-tweedy-966645\/\">\u201cI\u2019m Alive\u201d<\/a> to Norah Jones\u2019 upcoming album&nbsp;<em>Pick Me Up Off the Floor<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Wilco postponed a portion of their&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wilcoworld.net\/shows\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">spring tour<\/a> due to COVID-19, but they\u2019re still scheduled to embark on a co-headlining tour with Sleater-Kinney <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/wilco-sleater-kinney-tour-965028\/\">this summer<\/a>, kicking off August 6th.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3>Popular on Rolling Stone<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/iframe><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/wilco-jeff-tweedy-tell-your-friends-jesus-etc-late-show-stephen-colbert-1003501\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wilco premiered a new song, \u201cTell Your Friends,\u201d for their at-home performance on&nbsp;The Late Show With Stephen Colbert on Wednesday night. Each member of the band performed the song via livestream surrounded by their spouses, children and pets. The song celebrates the joy and reassurance of being able to reunite with your friends at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-807660","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-10 14:15:18","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}