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Apparently this is as close as we're gonna get this tour.... alas.

It's an open house at the Loft..... which is really a "help us unload the truck day". HEY MARK, ORDER MORE DONUTS!!!! But it's still a secret so don't tell nobody, ok?

Nikki Lane!

This really surprises me. I’m no fan of Bezos (although I think our household has contributed at least a couple of valves in the booster rocket), but forty bucks and free shipping is tough to pass up. Mine arrives today.

Thanks. It was a little surreal as we were leaving. Lots of folks on the public beach filling sandbags. Lotta plywood going up. Lines at gas stations, and then later along the drive most gas stations were already out of gas. then today as we’re driving up I95 through GA and SC we are seeing tons of the electrical bucket trucks heading south. We counted for a while and it averaged one every 30 seconds. The area we were at is getting hit pretty hard. Lotta water coming in.

Dana and I had just started our weeklong vacation on Sanibel Island on Saturday... Sunday was fabulous as was Monday morning!! Today (Tuesday) AM they declared mandatory evacuation so we skedaddled up to St. Augustine - will overnight here (and then Asheville tomorrow) on our way on back to Kentucky. Sigh...

“Canadian Former Obnoxious Twenty-One Year Old Confirms Vince is Right Again’l Achievement unlocked!! Cheers, eh?

I will say that Stan has been keeping the volumes up pretty high lately, both indoors and out. And the Via Chicago cacophony is still there in a big way every night. Just be prepared...

Not that I pay attention to these things (OK, yes I do), but during the last tour in the PNW, Bull Black Nova was on the setlist maybe 1/3 of the time. And Laminated Cat was almost always there if Nova wasn't. And for those two songs, Jeff and Nels both use a similar guitar for both songs (same tuning I suppose), each using a very well worn sunburst-like pattern Fender. So when the techs brought out those two guitars during the encore break and put them in Jeff and Nels' guitar stands, I did indeed notice. And the prominently placed black bison/bull on that night's poster was another poten

I can't quite tell if BBOP's IOU for more reportage was fulfilled or not, but wanted to add a couple things from this show. Given the decidedly non-fancy locale (you could park on the street but supposedly not in the grocery store parking lot across the street) and chain-link-and-asphalt parking-lot-turned-venue, this show had the potential of being a rather loose, unique little show. And it was. "Plains" was an interesting but fitting opener, with the band packed into a small semi-temporary stage without the usual "Wilco doily" backdrop. From there, we had the usual stuff setlist-wise,

More Wilco!

Wilco

Ticket is sold.

Washington Pavilion Row BB, seat 11... $90 face & fees. Second row center. Will call; meet you at the venue. Yes it's next to me. No you won't have to hold up a sign. Vince

Funny... less than two weeks after this show, FB tells me that the venue has been renamed as "MegaCorp Pavilion". I mean, there's capitalism, and then there's CAPITALism. Sheesh.

Ok, what’s this Bull Black drum intro all about?

I really, really like them. Glad to see they're starting to headline in a lot of places and expand out. Don't miss them!!

I hate it here..... when @bböp's gone. Here goes. I think I can safely say that we all had a delightful evening in a brand spankin' new outdoor venue just across the river from Cincinnati OH, with a great view of the Cincy skyline, as Wilco digs in to the meat of their Cruel Country tour. It's a big wide stage, with an ample standing GA pit area; behind that some VIP/reserved tables/boxes and a couple rows of reserved seats, and then a rather small lawn "hill" behind that. Very wide, but rather shallow front to back and pretty cozy really. Covered stage but open air beyond tha

Wilco... again?!? (Lobbying hard for one more Nova... )

Wilco!

Andrew Bird / Iron & Wine tonight. (and delinquent mention of Roger Waters two nights ago... pretty great week!)

I especially love the feature in our “new” board that says “2 years later…” like it’s some cheap movie or tv show.

Almost THREE YEARS since our last contestant? Sheesh. Anyways, this new record does fit in with the other releases right where @Beltmann predicted. I sense a trend. AM BT ST YHF AGIB SBS WTA TWL SW WS OTJ CC

Ben Nichols (Lucero) and Cory Branan.

Bonnie prince Billy. Hadn't heard a note of his music, but had "heard of" him somehow. (Turns out he's from Louisville and I'm in Lexington so maybe that's part of it). Anyway, I caught his whole set and was really enjoyed it. A bow on a banjo? Shiny little stickers on people's faces? 6-piece with no drums? Passing out lyric sheets to the audience? Every song is just one or two verses repeated half a dozen times? Word play where the first letter of each line is either the song title or a secret message? I found the whole thing delightfully weird and am (obviously) still think