I was also reading some of the articles this morning re Jay Bennett. It is indeed very sad as he appeared to be a very passionate and committed musician who as you said Kyle contributed to several great Wilco records. His voice was also a great foil for Tweedy's. I'm not sure they've been the same since his departure.

Speaking of great albums like Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Brian and I have had a few conversations lately re the fast approaching end of the noughts (or whatever this decade has been called) and were thinking that sometime in the latter half of 2009 we should get together for a retrospective CD club where we can listen to what we thought were the best of the last 10 years. Not as easy as it might have been for previous decades probably because our lives at this stage don't entirely revolve around seeing live shows and listening to and talking about nothing but music.