I'm of 2 minds about this:
Cool! All the Details!
It's a very well-written "fan's take" on Tweedy, covering a lot of the backstory from UT all the way through the Ghost sessions. You certainly get a lot of details about how and why xyz happened, even though it's often biased in favor of Tweedy's side of the story. The fact that Farrar had to even tell "his side" in a few magazines last year should give you a sense of how balanced Kot's coverage is of the UT split and Tweedy's problems with Bennett, Coomer, et al. I sometimes got the impression I was reading an expose on the Wilco soap opera...but, the fanboy in me was *delighted* to read it.
Sugar High!
I don't think he has all that much to say, in the end, about the music. He provides the time, places, personnel, some attempts at a grander theme (mostly copped from the movie), and so on, but a "serious" analysis of Wilco...I'm guessing that's still many years off (just as, say, the new McInerney novel about 9/11 doesn't have enough distance from its subject). I certainly didn't find myself wrestling with a theoretical treatise on, say, the deeper meanings of YHF, nor did I come across readings on the Summer Teeth material that struck me as terribly novel or insightful. And hey...maybe that's because there isn't much to the source material in the end?
Yeah, that all makes sense...
