Wilco’s Patrick Sansone on the ‘Southern weirdness’ that inspires his music

“I always had a sense of restlessness and a sense of curiosity and dreaming about life beyond,” Sansone says, echoing the wanderlust he’s shared with generations of Mississippi musicians who have taken their talents to new zip codes. 

“In my dream world, I was living in London in the sixties and hanging out with The Beatles and The Who and The Kinks,” he says. “But as I got older, I started to realize just how unique of an experience I had. And so many of the great British rock and rollers that I idolized as a teenager, they all dreamed about Mississippi.”