What Makes a Great Cover Song (feat. Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy)

2020 was arguably the year of the cover song. Listening to a familiar song spun a new way can be grounding or groundbreaking. We talk to the often covered and prolific performer of covers, Jeff Tweedy, about what goes into a great cover, and what it’s like to hear his own songs re-translated by other musicians. / Show Notes /For the playlist of cover songs curated for this episode visit http://bit.ly/oos-covers,Jeff Tweedy’s book is How to Write One Song, Watch episodes of The Tweedy Show created by the Tweedy family during lockdown, Jeff Tweedy’s cover of Billie Eilish’s song, ‘I Love You’, Fans create a 70 song cover tribute album to Jeff Tweedy on Bandcamp, The song Head Rolls Off is by Frightened Rabbit , Listen to Tiny Changes: A Celebration of Frightened Rabbit's 'The Midnight Organ Fight'/ Credits / Object of Sound is a Sonos show produced by work x work: Scott Newman, Jemma Brown, Babette Thomas. The show is additionally produced by Hanif Abdurraqib. Our engineers are Sam Bair and Josh Hahn of The Relic Room.