Jeff Tweedy Plays Messiah College

When Wilco singer Jeff Tweedy performed a solo acoustic set at Messiah College, the apparent irony of the occasion didn't go unmentioned:

"Actually, I'm honored that you would invite me to your campus. I think a lot of Christians would consider me a blasphemer," Tweedy said before deadpanning, "I have a checkered past."

After playing a few of his more spiritual-themed songs such as "Airline to Heaven", "Sunken Treasure", and "Theologians", Tweedy offered some great insight on faith and rock:

"I think one of the things that's really beautiful about rock music is that it's one of the rare places that people go in their lives where they join together with a bunch of people and raise their voices and sing along with somebody and transcend themselves, to find themselves as a part of humanity as opposed to being apart from humanity. I think that that's a beautiful thing ... Unfortunately there's been a lot of times where I think a lot of people have missed that experience in church and they found it in other places without knowing that's what they were finding."

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(via CT weblog)

Comments

[Corrine]

"Unfortunately there's been a lot of times where I think a lot of people have missed that experience in church and they found it in other places without knowing that's what they were finding."

That's how I felt at the U2 concert. Everyone was singing the songs, with their hands in the air. We were worshiping God together, but most of them didn't even realize it. Sad. If they had known, they might have thought, "Wow, I didn't know church could be like that."