{"id":8928,"date":"2012-01-09T07:14:27","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T15:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=8928"},"modified":"2012-01-09T16:27:38","modified_gmt":"2012-01-10T00:27:38","slug":"wilco-nick-lowe-and-mavis-staples-rehearsing-the-weight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2012-01\/wilco-nick-lowe-and-mavis-staples-rehearsing-the-weight\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilco, Nick Lowe and Mavis Staples Rehearsing &#8220;The Weight&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If this one doesn&#8217;t put a smile on your face, someone better call an ambulance or a preacher.\u00a0 Over the weekend, Wilco released the video below (filmed by<strong> Zoran Orlic<\/strong>) of\u00a0 <strong>Wilco, Nick Lowe<\/strong> and <strong>Mavis Staples<\/strong> rehearsing <strong>The Band&#8217;s <em>The Weight<\/em><\/strong> backstage at  the Civic Opera House in Chicago in December.\u00a0 The video starts off sorta lazy like rehearsals are wont to do, and then Mavis just can&#8217;t help herself.\u00a0 Having been there with her family for the all-time version captured by <strong>The Band and friends in The Last Waltz<\/strong> concerts and film in 1976, Mavis knows the power of this great song.\u00a0 She seems to sense the need and so starts conducting matters and entreating the fellas vocally and then singing in hearts.\u00a0 &#8216;Dem &#8216;dat knows it, feels it.\u00a0 And we love everything about Nick Lowe here.\u00a0 Starting with the smile that takes him over at 0:14, the momentary bobble to begin his part at 1:32, Mavis&#8217;s and Tweedy&#8217;s smiling acknowledgment at 1:43 of Lowe&#8217;s nicely subtle, but commanding vocals, and then the return of Nick&#8217;s smile at 4:00 along with his involuntary head-bobbing.\u00a0 Jeff Tweedy Dankos in on the song perfectly at 2:20 and kills, and the band plays on and Mavis takes matters back over.\u00a0 Magical things can happen when you least suspect it, and especially when marvelous Mavis Staples is making them happen.\u00a0 Too dang good.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Wilco, Nick Lowe &amp; Mavis Staples rehearse &quot;The Weight&quot;\" width=\"635\" height=\"357\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2WmlUXsjSv8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If this one doesn&#8217;t put a smile on your face, someone better call an ambulance or a preacher.\u00a0 Over the weekend, Wilco released the video below (filmed by Zoran Orlic) of\u00a0 Wilco, Nick Lowe and Mavis Staples rehearsing The Band&#8217;s The Weight backstage at the Civic Opera House in Chicago in December.\u00a0 The video starts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}