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I think one needs to actually hear the album before making that call.

I thought that picture of Jeff as a kid was some cutesy image for promotional purposes, but it looks like it's the album cover.

AM - Box Full of Letters BT - Forget the Flowers ST - Pieholden Suite YHF - IATTBYH (though Ashes live w/the current lineup is my favorite by other parameters) AGIB - Hell is Chrome SBS - Impossible Germany WTA - Solitaire TWL - Sunloathe

Cheers!

They would have, indeed -- but I bet the Wilco camp recorded them. There are only two pre-orders for TWEEDY shows in the Wilco Store right, but I suspect others may become available. The Wilco Roadcase releases started with just a few and now there are tons of them.

That's interesting. The live recordings from 2002-03 are chock-full of AGIB songs-in-progress, and they kick ass. And they kick ass on record. Wonder how the stage-to-studio crossover got lost for the follow-up...

You know, after I typed it out and imagined the sequence of songs in my head, I agree.

Those, and Heavy Metal Drummer I'm the Man Who Loves You I Am Trying to Break Your Heart Shot in the Arm Impossible Germany The Late Greats Or they finally bring W(TA) back into the fold and just play the album in its entirety.

I'm gonna have to try that tonight. I'm intrigued by how that might sound.

Nels is getting just about every gig on the planet these days, it seems.

I've enjoyed a decent amount of Jack's output since then, but Get Behind Me Satan is probably my favorite Stripes album...except the days when it's De Stijl.

Rockin' the Strat! Haven't seen Jeff play one of those since the videos from the Being There tour. The Loft's Facebook page said there was a "Strat reawakening" happening...

Consequence of Sound has a free download of a soundboard recording of Jack's Bonnaroo performance. The setlist is pretty epic. http://consequenceofsound.net/2014/06/listen-to-a-soundboard-recording-of-jack-whites-2014-bonnaroo-performance/

Craiglist ads? Sounds like a scam.

But the lyric is left arm tan. That's a pedal steel guitar, not a keyboard.

Trying to pinpoint the era. There's a steel guitarist in the background...Bob Egan? A shirtless Tweedy also could narrow this to the Being There tour, known for its raucousness and wild stage antics.

I just got the CD box set of the mono albums last year. They do sound fantastic. Not sure if I'm going to shell out $400 for this.

No kidding. Next thing you know he'll release an edible album.

That video of him punching the fan onstage would make one think otherwise. Maybe in his younger days -- thought I recalled a story in Greg Kot's book about Tweedy diving through a drum kit at Ken Coomer once. Or the time Jeff and Jay Farrar almost came to blows during the Uncle Tupelo farewell tour. Go to the 1:10 mark. http://youtu.be/5wmAvy7C2co

Obviously I don't speak for Jeff and "the management," but I don't think it's an issue, considering other recordings have surfaced, including the terrific one recently made available by NYCTaper. That one has been making the rounds on a bunch of websites. Keeping with the Wilco philosophy, I think Jeff wants people to hear the songs and doesn't mind the recordings being out there. And they're going to be selling official recordings from the Wilco roadcase soon prior to the album's release. It's the video recordings they don't approve.

He played it at his solo show at the Paramount Theatre in Denver on Dec. 5, 2013. Funny aside: the guy sitting behind my wife and I at that show was a Wilco/Tweedy know-it-all who constantly ran his mouth to his friend the entire show, dropping random facts and info about every song as it was played. Thing is, about 95% of it was complete bull turds. I recall him telling his friend Jeff wrote "Please Tell My Brother" while he was in the grips of heroin addiction and had just done prison time.

Yes. http://wilco.kungfustore.com/categories/491-roadcase

Probably in my top 5. Definitely my favorite from the 2001 Wilco-the-Quartet tour. Love the version of Ashes, too. Jeff's solo in the outro is messy, loud, scary and totally awesome.

Lovely. Thank you.