Jay Bennett

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Jay Bennett (born November 15, 1963) is an American guitarist and singer-songwriter. He was a founding member of Titanic Love Affair, which recorded three albums in the 1990s: Titanic Love Affair (1991), No Charisma (1992), and Their Titanic Majesty's Request (1996). Bennett was a member of Wilco from 1996 through 2001. He is generally considered to have had a major role in moving Wilco forward musicially, but at the same time being difficult to work with. Conflicts that would contribute to Bennett being fired from Wilco between frontman Jeff Tweedy and Bennett are visible in the Sam Jones film I Am Trying to Break Your Heart: A Film About Wilco.

[edit] Career

Since leaving Wilco Bennett has released 4 albums. The first, entitled The Palace at 4am (Undertow Music), is a collaboration with Champaign musician Edward Burch. 2004's Bigger than Blue is a more stripped-down set of personal songs. In the same year he released The Beloved Enemy, which saw Bennett exploring his personal turmoil in even more intimate detail. In 2005, he produced jam band Blues Traveler's eighth studio album, ¡Bastardos!. His most recent album, The Magnificent Defeat, was released in September, 2006.

Bennett lives in Urbana, Illinois, where he spends most of his time writing songs and recording in his private studio.

[edit] External links

• Official web site
• Interview about making Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and leaving Wilco.
• Jay Bennett's track-by-track list of his contributions to Yankee Hotel Foxtrot.