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Complete setlist, as played: Western Clear Skies Betrayed One Tiny Flower Caught Up In The Past Cry Baby Cry Forever Never Ends This Is How It Ends Low Key Evergreen Mirror Stray Cats In Spain Out In The Dark KC Rain (No Wonder) New Orleans Guess Again Feel Free Lou Reed Was My Babysitter Amar Bharati World Away Half-Asleep --------------------------------------------- Twilight Override Diamond Light Pt.1 Helpless [Neil Young; recorded by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young]

Because I’ve been such a laggard in keeping up with these first shows of the Twilight Override era — in the interest of transparency, I’m writing this three full weeks after the first “real” (i.e., headlining) gig of the tour — and because I haven’t been able to attend as many of them as I usually do, I’m changing up my recap format a bit and trying something new. Or actually old. If you came of age in or are a consumer of old-fashioned newspaper journalism as I did and am, you will probably recognize a version of the tried-and-true “notes column” in what follows. I think this format will

I didn't make it out to San Francisco in person, but I did watch this show via the live stream...so it almost felt like I was there. But not quite. Anyway, I guess this was the first real show of the Twilight Override era in that it was the first one with the full band playing songs from the album that anyone — and literally anyone, since it's free — could attend. The roughly 65-minute set took place on the Towers Of Gold stage on the second day of the three-day event and, from what I could see, featured a pretty sizable crowd. Here was the complete setlist, as played:

On a Sunday afternoon/evening after a Cubs game — an especially brutal loss, as I recall — Jeff headlined the third annual JCC Chicago Growing Hope concert in the Gallagher Way space outside Wrigley Field. JCC Chicago is a Jewish community organization (the largest Jewish community center in North America, according to its Web site), so it was a natural fit for Jeff to perform solo alongside a number of other artists "to celebrate hope, community, and the transformative power of music," according to a press release. An estimated 2,000 people attended the event — though not me, sadly.

Another Jeff solo set, headlining the three-day Ellnora Guitar Festival at the University Of Illinois. Was anybody on here there? Here was the complete setlist, as played, according to Wilcoworld: Story To Tell I Am Trying To Break Your Heart Feel Free Please Tell My Brother Enough KC Rain (No Wonder) Stray Cats In Spain A Lifetime To Find Impossible Germany Country Song Upside-Down Laminated Cat (aka Not For The Season) Love Is For Love New Madrid Lou Reed Was My Babysitter

OK, this site isn't dead yet...lol. Let the housekeeping begin. Here was the complete setlist, as played, for Jeff's solo headlining set at this year's ICSF, courtesy of the folks at Wilcoworld: Story To Tell KC Rain (No Wonder) Feel Free Enough Having Been Is No Way To Be Gwendolyn I Am Trying To Break Your Heart Family Ghost Forever Never Ends Stray Cats In Spain A Lifetime To Find Please Tell My Brother I'm Always In Love New Madrid Impossible Germany Country Song Upside-Down Laminated Ca

Excellent summation, as always. Might want to change “Casey Oats” to Case Oats, but otherwise no notes. #PukeyPromSong and #ArmInTheAirSong forever!

Thanks a lot for chiming in, Rob! Better late than never. And great photos, as always. Definitely helped give a sense of the room and the vibe of the show!

“We’ll see you next year,” Jeff said, giving one last wave to the capacity crowd at the Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium as he left the stage with his bandmates for the final time in 2025. Truth be told, I think the Edmonton audience probably would be thrilled if Wilco did return next year since it had surprisingly (amazingly?) been more than 15 years since the band’s last show in town. And of course, Jeff probably will be back this way sometime in 2026 as he now turns his attention to supporting his forthcoming Twilight Override solo release. But I think, in some way, he was maybe speaking

Sadly couldn't make this one, as I had a prior commitment with another Canadian — Uncle Neil — back in Chicago. Heard from a couple sources that it was a bit of an odd gig, though, in the sense that it was theoretically part of the "August Evening With..." tour and thus people thought that the usual two-set, 30-something-song performance was forthcoming. But instead it simply turned into a "standard" set — and kind of a short one at that — with a brief encore. I guess more than a few attendees were miffed, including our resident Kentuckian. Hopefully he'll chime in with a few more

SOMEONE DID MENTION IT, NOT IN THAT WAY EXACTLY BUT STILL. HE GOT THE HUMOUR I THINK, BUT STILL WAS MOST LIKELY NOT IN THE JOKIEST OF MOODS. FFS! Pat and the Penguins. Good doo-wop group, or so I hear. (Sea)-Ta(c) Airport.

Birthdays…who needs ‘em? Amirite? I write this as someone whose own birthday is rapidly approaching, but even if Jeff hadn’t already expressed his indifference toward his birthday on his most recent Substack post, I think he would probably be inclined to agree after he spent his 58th working with Wilco on the second night of a two-night stand at the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle. After taking the stage to a front row of people wearing party hats, blowing noisemakers and holding up letters spelling out “Happy Birthday, Jeff” — I’m not even going to get into the clueless local televis

I don’t know how well this will work, but here’s a shot of Jeff holding the aforementioned bread…

Imagine, if you will, a movie poster from a 1950s sci-fi B-movie called “The Sourdough That Took Over Seattle” or something like that with a sourdough round perhaps taking the place of a flying saucer and descending upon, say, Woodland Park Zoo. I can see it, and I think it could be a hit! (Or maybe I’ve just gone to too many shows now and I’m starting to go a little crazy. Who can say?) Anyway, I bring up this wacky image because on the first night of two sold-out shows by Jeff and his bandmates at Seattle’s Woodland Park Zoo, a sourdough round stamped with “Wilco” did indeed thre

Tony or Joe?