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Jeff Tweedy Answers Our Questions About Parks and Recreation’s Unity Concert
“I wasn’t confident at all, but I assumed the show knew what it was doing.”
Years of bureaucratic mismanagement had exacerbated Eagleton’s financial issues — the only way to get out of debt was to reabsorb into Pawnee, a jarring culture clash that had citizens hurling proverbial Paunch Burgers and palm trees at one another in protest. But Pawnee’s parks department had an inspired idea for solidarity: They’d throw a Unity Concert to officially unite the two cities in every sense of the term and get some notable performers to sweeten the deal for its citizens. Land Ho!, indeed, reunites for the Unity Concert, with Jeff Tweedy, as lead singer Scott Tanner, playing the part of an approachable front man who’s able to get behind Leslie and Andy’s message for the sake of the community.
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