Jeff Tweedy, indie-rock iconoclast and singer-songwriter of singular contemporary influence, brought his sprawling American vision to West Texas for an evening solo performance on January 21st, 2007. Tweedy’s name has long been associated with the alternative-country movement he helped spawn in the late 80’s with the groundbreaking group Uncle Tupelo. A series of collaborations, projects, and acclaimed releases with his own band Wilco have since revealed an experimental and relentlessly creative spirit that confounds simple categorization. Tweedy’s voice, a ghostly summons, and his lyrics — imbued at times with an elemental wit, pain and anxiety, and shimmering in other moments with a strange, cryptic beauty — are uniquely suited to the intimate grandeur of Marfa’s Liberty Hall.

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