Album Review: Wilco - What's Your 20? Essential Tracks 1994-2014

Chicago’s country-rock legends Wilco have cherry-picked the finest 38 tracks from their eight studio albums (plus their Mermaid Avenue foray with Billy Bragg) and it coalesces as a brilliant body of work. From the ground zero alt-country of their beginnings through the onset ambition of the sadly-missed Jay Bennett era and onto the complex and fascinating behemoth they’ve become today, frontman Jeff Tweedy has aimed at many stylistic targets (within parameters) with his songwriting and rarely missed, and every incarnation has supported him in both spirit and musicianship. Essential.