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Just want to chime in on behalf of Wilco Karaoke and the contest winners. I really enjoyed the Friday night show and I thought the singers acquitted themselves quite well. Wilco Karaoke was fun and added an element of surprise to the event - what songs would they do? What would the singers sound like? Would they be visibly nervous or confident? etc. Putting the lyrics and visuals up on screen was a great idea too (love the random cat video that played during one song). I wonder if those of us up front enjoyed it more than those in the back? I agree with the comment of "what other band could p

2 CD set is 12 bucks, which is what single CDs usually go for anyway. I don't feel like I'd be paying twice. But it certainly is does seem like a waste of resources and product to include Warm, when likely most folks who'll buy Warmer already have Warm.

Hell is Chrome. Or is that, like, anti-color?

I swear I predicted that Friday would be Wilco with guest vocals by other musicians at the festival, but I am not finding that thread. Definitely an "interesting" idea to open it to the fans, but I don't think Wilco would pick anyone who would be so bad to kill the vibe. Maybe this could have been reserved for a daytime slot on Saturday, or something, to be inclusive and fan-centric and interesting, and still keep the Friday show as full on Wilco. Now, even if the show is a cool "moment", will you listen to the roadcase? =D

In New York, that line was "I'm a piece of work, but you're no walk in the park." Thanks for the review, Paul! Your write-ups are getting better and better.

Nice to see you too, Tyler! Yes, I was at both Town Hall shows in 2001 as well as the November 1999 show (my Wilco first!). I've had an audience recording of 9-27-01 all these years, (I might have 9-28 as well). Jesus Etc isn't on there, and I trust that the setlists on Wilco Base are relatively correct. I remember at the time expecting that, well, they *had* to play Jesus Etc, right? And being surprised that they didn't. I guess it was just too soon and the lyrics too close to the tragedy.. Back to these two shows, interesting that everyone on the floor stood up for the encore night 1, bu

Great shows, I enjoyed night 2's setlist a little more than night 1. There was some of the same exact banter (re; the story behind "Open Kimono", and the changed lyrics to another new song - Guaranteed, I think) two nights in a row, but Jeff did have one or two new stories tonight. One was about him no longer wearing the Stetson hat because he played a show in Texas and half the audience was wearing the same hat - copying his style He also had some riffs on the crowd from night 1 which were funny (Paraphrasing: "Last night wome woman told me to not wear these clothes tonight. That I am wear

And it appears that Joseph Arthur was the opener at that 2003 gig. Must have been a hell of a night indeed. I'd love to see a show there someday too. Thanks as always for your reviews bbop!

"Wilco T-Shirt Mysteriously Appears in Closet on Eve of Man’s 35th Birthday" https://thehardtimes.net/music/wilco-t-shirt-mysteriously-appears-in-closet-on-eve-of-mans-35th-birthday/ LOL.

It has been a while since I bought concert tix on TM. Can anyone explain this BS I got? "We apologize. We are unable to complete your request on this device. So that you may continue to shop, we recommend using a different device (laptop, phone, tablet, etc.). Using a shared device? Make sure you're logged into your Ticketmaster account." First time I ever saw that message. And now all the good tickets if not all the tickets have vanished before my eyes.

That's amazing, thanks, Paul! I always wondered what the original Guthrie takes sounded like and if Wilco was close or far-off in their interpretations/guesstimations. Nice to see one of them surface.

Dang, I forgot to write down all the shows I saw this year, and with so many shows being paperless tickets I might have trouble recollecting all of them. Some highligh sin no particular order. Pearl Jam - September 2 - Fenway Park, Boston MA Soul Asylum - August 17-18 - Penn's Peak, Jim Thorpe/Club XL, Harrisburg, PA. Witht he Jellybricks in Harrisburg. Jeff Tweedy - June, Clearwater Festival, Croton Point Park, NY Lucius - March - Levon Helm's Barn, Woodstock, NY Drive By Truckers - July 5 - The Colony, Woodstock, NY Erika Wennerstrom - March - Brooklyn Bowl, NYC (opening for Drive By Truc

The band didn't even have it for sale at their merch table last night, so I don't have the album yet, but the songs the Old 97s played from their new Christmas album are actually really good. Particularly Snow Angels.

In 2012 I started getting into Joseph Arthur, after seeing him open for Soul Asylum. Later on I saw something that said he opened for Three Fish at Wetlands in NYC in 1999, a show I attended. I always remembered, for whatever reason, that David Garza was the other opening act, but I have no memory whatsoever of Joseph Arthur. So I missed out on knowing who he was for another 13 years.

I also haven't been reading books much in recent years (the internet has killed my attention span, I swear), but I finished Let's Go in just a few days. It was probably the right length for a book of this nature, but I also could have kept reading. I felt like there was much in there I didn't know, or added details that fleshed out stories I only knew part of. I didn't realize, for example, that the incident with Jay Farrar's girlfriend took place four years before Son Volt broke up. Jeffs's typical stage banter humor pays out well in the book - there were many laughs throughout. Jeff will b

I have to add Adam's House Cat - Town Burned Down to my list. Just picked it up the other night. This pre-Drive By Truckers album holds up with Patterson Hood's best material despite being recorded a decade before Southern Rock Opera, when Hood was just in his early 20s. Unfortunately the album wasn't released, and the tapes were lost, and then much later rediscovered, and the record finally came out this year.

Drive-By Truckers Trapper Schoepp

Erika Wennerstrom's "Sweet Unknown" is far and away the one album from 2018 that I listened to a lot. Other albums that I picked up include: Lucius - Nudes Neko Case - Hell-On Richard Thompson - 13 Rivers

Agreed, especially as I feel like I've read elsewhere that Louris/Smog helped Tweedy find his footing and musical confidence after UT. The book is great and I am really speeding through it enjoyably. But it feels as if Jeff has written long answers to a list of questions he was presented with, and somehow no one thought to ask about the Smog. Seems that Louris just doesn't come up among Wilco fandom as much as Jay/Jay/Billy Bragg have.

I imagine most celebrity bios aren't actually written by the celebrity - ie, they didn't sit down at their computer for hours upon hours, day after day for a year or two, to actually type things out. I believe it's usually done by oral interviews with a ghost writer who then patches together the various topics into a cohesive narrative. I don't think they'd actually change the wording much though.

I caught Eric Stuart last night at the Bitter End in NYC, a hometown show for the now-Nashville based musician. Here's a track from his most recent album: Something 'Bout the Girl.

Art of Almost Wilco.... picked this bad boy up this summer in Central New York. I'll be wearing it at Solid Sound next year.

Rhett Miller wrote "The Believer" that morning after hearing the news of Elliot Smith's death and debuted the song that night at Fez Under Time Cafe, a small club in NYC he used to frequently play.

"Insightful and Accurate" sounds like it could be the title of an early-era outtake. It could also roll off the tongue as "Insightful Inaccurate", which sounds like a typical Tweedy lyric. Jeff should write this song for bböp.

You're welcome fellas! And now, some photos. Full Set