As Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy performs June 6 at the College of Charleston Cistern Yard as part of Spoleto Festival USA, Jenny Ferrara will be finishing up her shift eight blocks north at Philosophers & Fools.

The cofounder of the bookstore/bar on Bogard Street, funded partially by a Kickstarter campaign , has been thinking plenty about the band’s frontman in the past few weeks. That’s because she and six frequent customers read Tweedy’s most recent memoir – World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music – a s part of a special Spoleto Festival book club reading.

Ferrara also found herself listening to Tweedy, Wilco and his old band Uncle Tupelo before the May meeting, finding hits from classic albums like Yankee Hotel Foxtrot .

“I was like, ‘OK, I’m gonna

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