* I'm listening to Erykah Badu's Mama's Gun, some four years after I last gave it a shot and dismissed it as dull. It's going better this time around, but there's still some slow spots, mainly in that I don't like vocal jazz very much and there are a couple of vocal jazz tracks here.
* Earlier, I listened to Wilco's most recent (and Grammy Award winning!) album, A Ghost is Born. I listened to this a lot for a two week period after it came out last summer, but then it fell off my radar, resulting in only a handful of listens since. It's good enough...but there's something tentative about most of it. There's a few standout tracks—like "Hell is Chrome" and "Spiders"—but the bulk of the record seems content to just be mildly pleasant, existing in the background for the NPR crowd who still think themselves edgy.
* I'm seeing Wilco tomorrow, which I've mentioned elsewhere in this folder. I hope the album's lesser moments come off better on stage; I also hope they do a generous runthrough of their back catalogue.
* Here are the Wilco albums, listed in preferential order:
Being There
Summerteeth
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
A.M.
A Ghost is Born