For the third album covered in its entirety by Beck’s Record Club, the
Modern Guilt rocker recruited Wilco, Feist and Jamie Liddell to
perform Skip Spence’s 1969 offbeat folk-rock album Oar. Beck’s Record
Club, “an informal meeting of various musicians to record an album in
a day,” laid down Oar back in June, when Wilco were in Los Angeles in
support of Wilco (The Album). “They came by after a long day filming a
TV appearance and still managed to put down 8 songs with us,” Beck
writes on his Record Club site. “Leslie Feist happened to be in town
editing her documentary and heard we were all getting together.” Jeff
Tweedy’s 13-year-old son Spencer also joined the Record Club for
“additional drums.” -CD
