Wilco: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

February 23, 2016 by BOB BOILEN Thousands of bands have made strong debuts, and many of those have made good second and third records — it’s harder, but not unusual. It’s truly rare to make your 10th album exciting and relevant more than 20 years on. For all that, I’d say Wilco is an American legend. Though Wilco is basically a conventional rock band in form — guitars, bass, drums, keyboards, one lead songwriter — it defies expectations in so many other ways. In 2001, the group put an entire new album (t