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No deal. The best I can do is trade you Trudeau for Wilco.

Maybe, instead of making Canada the 51st state, we'll make Vermont the 11th province.

Hello Wilco, Please note I write this letter to you with love, respect, and admiration. It's me, your fan, TCP. As you can tell by my location being "Obnoxiously Canadian", my avatar being being Johnny Canuck (unchanged since 2008), my constant talk of Canadian rock ensemble Sloan, and the fact that I remind everyone all the time that The Band are (mostly) Canadian, I reside in the country north of the border: Canada. We love you guys and I think you might love us too, if you just gave us a chance. We're the country that produced some of your favourite songwriters: Neil Young, Leo

Thanks for the recap!! Sounds like a great event. Also if any VCers don't know D'Arcy Corden, she was in two of the best TV shows in recent years: The Good Place (as a main cast member) and Barry (as a recurring character). Two comedies I highly recommend.

I always like to look at my post from last year. Usually I have a good track record but last year, well...... I'll bold the ones that did come out. Confirmed: Sloan (they've been recording it and talking openly about it, and I heard Pat or Chris... maybe Pat on his Patreon (?), say it's coming in the fall) Wednesday The Weather Station Not officially confirmed but almost definitely happening, for real this time: Japanese Breakfast (The Needle Drop mentioned it was coming in March 2025) Wet Leg (At the end of 2023 I heard Jenny E

Great recaps Brian F!!! Happy New Year to you and to all my fellow VCers.

Oh hey VC is back. Thanks admin team! I'll echo knotgreen, these three shows really were a dream. I know the Palace shows in 2019 had a lot of the same people night after night, and I think the no repeats thing probably encouraged more people to go to two or even all three of these shows. As the band gets older I'm sure staying put longer will be more appealing, so hopefully this is the sort of thing they'll do more of. It's nice for me, as a foreign tourist from a far off distant land, to be able to travel down there and make a weekend out of it. Really happy to hear

Oops, also, I forgot to mention I think the technical issues Pat was having was with his pedal board. That seemed to be what they were looking at and between sets Austin came out holding a few pedals, that I'm assuming he swapped in. Pedal boards can be big complicated messes. If it stops outputting sound, it can be very time consuming to diagnosis where the issue is. Has a pedal died? Or a cable between the pedals? Good on Austin for getting it sorted. I'm curious what Pat said to Jeff, I'm guessing that he can do keyboard parts on the upcoming songs, but perhaps that's why Shouldn't Be Asham

Last night was fantastic. I really, really, really liked that acoustic arrangement of Spiders straight into Wishful Thinking. Absolutely sublime. Acoustic Art of Almost was great too. Due to geographical restrictions I wasn't able to attend many Wilco shows from 2004 - 2015, I knew Let's Not Get Carried Away would be a highlight but I didn't know how hard it would hit. Glenn turned into a maniac for a few minutes there, and it was wonderful. Seven songs again last night I hadn't heard the band play before, that's 14 total across two nights. As for the weather, I heard someone,

Great recap bbop. I saw two other shows this year at Palace Theatre and the "gap" was the same, I believe. They usually have a lot of photographers, though I felt like there was less last night and correct me if I'm wrong but they seemed to have left after two songs instead of the usual three. Absolutely fantastic show last night and well worth the winter drive. Seven songs I've never heard live before. Seven!! Interestingly, Too Far Apart was played at my first Wilco show all the way back in 2007, which at the time was the first time it had been played in seven years, really cool to hear

...It's my time to shine! So, Austin had 98 unique songs played across three evenings. Tulsa had 68, including the coda of Many Worlds. All 68 of those songs were all played in Austin, with the possible (debatable!) exception of the coda of Many Worlds, as Austin had the full Many Worlds. Austin had 32 songs a night, and Tulsa had 33 (night one) and 35 (night two).

I wonder if they'll go for an even 100 songs across all three nights.

A few thoughts... Firstly: Shout out to the Wilco HQ team on switching the tees to Comfort Colors. I've bought a bunch of these shirts this year from other bands and they fit and feel so much better than those Canvas shirts. I'm 6'3" and bigger (purely muscles, I assure you) and usually comfortably wear a 2XL but a lot of my Wilco shirts (the ones with the Canvas tag at least), even at 3X, fit poorly. The Comfort Colors are great at 2XL, and also don't feel thin and cheap. Secondly, in this day and age a 9LP boxset for $215 USD is a pretty reasonable set (plus 4 CDs, a book, etc

It's up for pre-order on the Nonesuch store: https://store.nonesuch.com/en/nonesuch/a-ghost-is-born-deluxe-edition-9lp-4cd-mp3-bundle/075597897159.html I would hold off on ordering as the Wilco Store usually has an exclusive variant.

My crystal ball, of course!! Ok, actually, a friend from Europe mentioned that most of AGIB was missing from Spotify. Assuming it was a mistake, I suggested emailing Wilco HQ about it and they got a response that Nonesuch still owns that record and they pulled it to prep for a reissue getting announced "next week". Now, thanks to u2roolz's sleuthing, I'm assuming either the announcement got moved up a week to tomorrow (Wednesday) or perhaps that response was from the weekend making "next week" actually "this week" and my half dozens of minutes getting the AGIB egg in a crystal ball

My prediction is a reissue will get announced next week.

They've already said there won't be an opener. "An evening with" usually (always?) indicates that the band is the only music performance. I don't think it necessarily means the set will therefor be longer. But I suppose it's a possibility. Anyways, I got tickets for all 3 nights in St Paul, see you folks there.

Did anyone here grab Archives Volume 3? I was planning on streaming it via Neil's site all weekend but it appears they're not allowing streaming even to paid subs. And of course there's no way to buy the thing digitally. I'm curious to hear any impressions!

Just wanted to pop in and say I like the EP a lot. Livid is a ton of fun and I agree it could have been longer. While I have no issues with Jeff's voice these days, I've been saying this for awhile, and this EP only convinces me more, that Wilco should do an instrumental album. Or at least an album more focused on instrumentation. Jeff has a lot of outlets for his songwriting these days, which is fantastic because he's an incredibly consistent songwriter. I will always want more of his songs. But what makes this iteration of Wilco special is the way they play together... the most exciting Wilc

Oh yeah good call with the Waxahatchee and K-Mo tour dates! Personally, I would love another solo tour, it's been a few years hasn't it? At least for me, besides some one offs like festivals, I haven't seen Jeff tour solo since Warm came out.

Yeah, I would expect to maybe see some Tweedy or solo shows in the fall and then maybe some Wilco shows late in the year like they've done in St Paul and Chicago before. But who knows how the whole hip thing will effect plans.

I'll leave the full proper recap to the professional, if @bböpso chooses to make one. But...... I suppose it wouldn't hurt to share a few of anecdotes. Apologies in advance if nothing makes sense, I am running on about 3 hours of sleep!! 🫠 A high school choir came out for the encore and sang next to Glenn, behind the Autumn Defence. Jeff introduced them with the wrong name, I'm not sure if he just said the name incorrectly, or mentioned the wrong school entirely, but he quickly corrected himself and told the crowd that it was Guelph Collegiate Vocational Institute Chamber Choir... a

Keep an eye on the Wilco World US store in the next few weeks, I believe RSD stuff has popped up there afterwards in limited quantities.

Good for Glenn!!

@radiatortunes sent this to me before my alarm went this morning, so after I turned it off this tweet was the first thing I saw. I admit in my still mostly asleep state of mind my initial thought was "fuck, that won't fit on my record shelf". But if they're teasing us, maybe an actual announcement is imminent?! 🫨 I know what you're trying to say BUT... view the actual book as the liner notes and the CD as a release called "The Wilco Book"!