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Right now the office webcast radio (courtesy of, I believe Radio IO) is playing a song off Wilco’s unreleased album ‘A Ghost Is Born’ — which is probably illegal.

I’d report it to Nonesuch Records but then I’d have to explain how I know what ‘Late Greats’ sounds like and why I made a sudden donation to Doctors Without Borders recently.

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“The Late Greats” by Jeff Tweedy

The greatest lost track of all time:

The Late Greats’ “Turpentine”

You can’t hear it on the radio

You can’t hear it anywhere you go

The best band will never get signed

K-Settes starring Butcher’s Blind

Are so good, you won’t ever know

They never even played a show

You can’t hear ’em on the radio

The greatest singer in rock and roll

Would have to be Romeo

His vocal chords are made of gold

He just looks a little too old

The greatest lost track of all time:

The Late Greats’ “Turpentine”

I can’t hear it on the radio

I don’t hear it anywhere I go

The best song will never get sung

The best life never leaves your lungs

So good, you won’t ever know

I never hear it on the radio

Can’t hear it on the radio

(Which is kind of funny, since I’ve never heard Wilco on the radio . . . but they sure as hell play them a lot on Radio IO.)