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Jeff Tweedy, Let's Go (So We Can Get Back)
Update: Left Bank Books has sold out of tickets for this event. To inquire about additional sales/walk-up policies, please call 314-367-6731.
Left Bank Books has announced that actor Jon Hamm, a St. Louis native, will join Wilco's Jeff Tweedy for an event later this month supporting Tweedy's new memoir Let's Go (So We Can Get Back): A Memoir of Recording and Discording with Wilco, Etc. Tweedy was also born in the area, in Belleville.
On November 17 starting at 7 p.m. at The Pageant, Tweedy and Hamm will discuss the book, out November 13, which traces Tweedy's childhood, working in a St. Louis record store, as well as the clubs and performances that jump-started his career and the Chicago band Wilco.
If you like seeing St. Louis stars, this is a pretty good bang for your buck. Tickets start at $31 per person and include an autographed copy of Let's Go.
Why Hamm? For one, the Emmy-winning Mad Men star has prior experience interviewing fellow St. Louisans about their books. In 2016, he talked to sportscaster Joe Buck about his memoir, Lucky Bastard. And as reported in Esquire, Hamm is a Wilco fan. His favorite song lyric, he told the men's magazine, is from "A Shot in the Arm": “What you once were isn’t what you want to be any more.”
