Loose Fur

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Loose Fur is an American rock band comprising Wilco members Jeff Tweedy and Glenn Kotche, and musician/producer Jim O'Rourke. They have released two albums, Loose Fur (2003) and Born Again in the USA, (2006). Both records have been released on the Drag City record label.

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The genesis of Loose Fur began in May 2000, when Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy asked multi-instrumentalist Jim O'Rourke to play with him at Chicago's Noise Pop festival. A few days before the festival, Tweedy and O'Rourke rehearsed together at the Wilco loft, and O'Rourke invited his friend, drummer Glenn Kotche along. There they worked on several new songs for Tweedy's May 14 performance at the Double Door (and which later appeared on their self-titled album in 2003). Tweedy was so invigorated from working with both O'Rourke and Kotche, that he brought them into his Wilco family soon after: Kotche became Wilco's new drummer (replacing Ken Coomer), and O'Rourke mixed their landmark Yankee Hotel Foxtrot album.

In 2005, the trio wrote and recorded songs for a new album, and on November 17, 2005, they appeared together during a solo Tweedy show in New York, where they performed "Laminated Cat" from their first album and a new song, "The Ruling Class" from Born Again in the USA.

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Wilco
Jeff Tweedy | John Stirratt | Nels Cline | Glenn Kotche | Pat Sansone | Mikael Jorgensen
Ken Coomer | Max Johnston | Jay Bennett | Leroy Bach | Jim O'Rourke
Discography
Albums and extended plays: A.M. | Being There | Mermaid Avenue | Summerteeth | Mermaid Avenue Vol. II | Yankee Hotel Foxtrot | More Like the Moon | A Ghost Is Born | Kicking Television: Live in Chicago
Singles: Box Full of Letters | Outtasite (Outta Mind) | Can't Stand It | A Shot in the Arm | War on War
DVDs: Man in the Sand | I Am Trying to Break Your Heart
Related articles
Uncle Tupelo | Billy Bragg | The Wilco Book | Loose Fur | Down With Wilco | Sunken Treasure: Live in the Pacific Northwest | Golden Smog
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