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    Jeff Tweedy - Love is the King - October 23

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    So how many of LitK songs have we heard? Links below.

     

    01 Love Is the King (official release)
    02 Opaline (on the Tweedy Show)
    03 A Robin or a Wren (on the Tweedy Show)
    04 Gwendolyn (on the Tweedy Show)
    05 Bad Day Lately (on the Tweedy Show)
    06 Even I Can See (on the Tweedy Show)
    07 Natural Disaster (on the Tweedy Show)
    08 Save It for Me (on the Tweedy Show)
    09 Guess Again (on the Tweedy Show & official release)
    10 Troubled (on the Tweedy Show)
    11 Half-Asleep

    The Tweedy show

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    First, congrats on the shout out from Susie! It’s a surreal experience. I had a similar one when she mentioned the recaps.

     

    I’m almost positive that the only thing that happened was that Jeff was in the bathtub, so the boys brought in some speakers and played Save It For Me over them. I don’t think Jeff ever got out of the tub or played anything from there.

    My memory is that the only song that was played was via someone’s iPhone. I think it was a new one which we’ve since heard again. Jeff didn’t get out of the tub!

    2020 Touring

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    Kind of wish they just would have cancelled tbh.  It's not like there will be any shows in 2020, so what are we doing kicking the can down the road?

    Agreed. I just assume get a refund and have the option to buy tickets at a later date.

    2020 Touring

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    From The Vic's website:

     

    THIS SHOW HAS BEEN POSTPONED
    Information regarding a rescheduled date will be announced as soon as possible. Tickets purchased for the originally scheduled performance will be honored on the new date - no need to exchange.

    Roadcase Series

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    A combo quarantine boredom and Roadcase sale has me trying to compile a list of all of the Jeff Tweedy solo Roadcases that have been released. Maybe you're equally bored and can help verify that the list below is complete? They don't always differentiate in the KungFu store in a way that's obvious (or at all, in some cases)....

     

    ROADCASE 87 / MAY 22, 2019 / BRISBANE, AU
    ROADCASE 78 / JUNE, 30, 2019 / NORTH ADAMS, MA
    ROADCASE 74 / MARCH 23, 2019 / CHICAGO, IL
    ROADCASE 73 / MARCH 22, 2019 / CHICAGO, IL
    ROADCASE 72 / FEBRUARY 28, 2019 / ST. LOUIS, MO
    ROADCASE 71 / OCTOBER 08, 2018 / LOS ANGELES, CA
    ROADCASE 70 / DECEMBER 28-29, 2017 / LOS ANGELES, CA
    ROADCASE 66 / JUNE 25, 2017 / NORTH ADAMS, MA
    ROADCASE 32 / FEBRUARY 15, 2014 / CHICAGO, IL
    ROADCASE 31 / FEBRUARY 14, 2014 / CHICAGO, IL
    ROADCASE 30 / DECEMBER 03, 2013 / KANSAS CITY, MO
    ROADCASE 29 / DECEMBER 05, 2013 / DENVER, CO
    ROADCASE 28 / DECEMBER 08, 2013 / SEATTLE, WA
    ROADCASE 27 / DECEMBER 19, 2013 / LOS ANGELES, CA
    ROADCASE 26 / DECEMBER 18, 2013 / LOS ANGELES, CA
    ROADCASE 25 / DECEMBER 16, 2013 / LOS ANGELES, CA
    ROADCASE 24 / DECEMBER 15, 2013 / LOS ANGELES, CA

    2020 Touring

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    Interesting. This seems to maybe hint at some bigger summer shows on the way, what with the September TBT run and now this one. Seems like a good bet Philly will also get something along these lines, since they haven’t played there for OTJ yet. The Mann, perhaps? Hopefully not Camden.

     

    Good guess! I read somewhere that another Wilco/S-K on August 23 at the Mann "leaked" along with the NYC date. I suppose it won't be long until we will know officially! 

    2020 Touring

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    Wilco and Sleater-Kinney at Forest Hills Stadium, NYC on August 22. Tix on sale March 13.

     

    Kind of a curve ball with the August date. Was thinking maybe something in May given the Live From Here show, but I'm always wrong when with these guesses.

    Jeff Tweedy — 23 February 2020, New York, NY (The Town Hall) [This Land is Your Land: A Celebration of 80 years]

    in After The Show

    Posted

    Thanks, man! (And for the report on Jeff’s set as well. Haha). It sounds like kind of a weird night, but sounds like Jeff’s banter and getting to see Haley made it worth the trip. I hope so, at least...

     

    Totally! I'd be remiss to not mention that the show kicked off with Tony Trischka and Aoife O'Donovan playing the Carter Family. The show definitely had some special moments.

    Jeff Tweedy — 23 February 2020, New York, NY (The Town Hall) [This Land is Your Land: A Celebration of 80 years]

    in After The Show

    Posted

    I think that it’s probably best that this review of the Woody Guthrie Center’s benefit show celebrating the 80th anniversary of “This Land is Your Land” begins at the end, with Jeff’s performance. I could instead try to paint a picture of an undersold Town Hall, where I sat sandwiched between concert goers 40 years my senior, where one gentleman slept on and off, another took out his hearing aids during performances he didn’t like, or the occasional sound - and I kid you not - of an oxygen tube that would occasionally dislodge itself from wherever it was intended and treat us all to the “shhhhhhh” sound of forced air.

     

    No, I’ll stick just to Jeff, who came out at 10:41pm and spoke to the crowd before launching into One by One. “I put new strings on my guitar, so I’ll be playing with my fingers,” he said before adding “I’m not sure why I told you that.” He went on to recount, as he did during a recent Wilco NYC gig (or was it his solo shows supporting Warm?), about the band’s performance at Town Hall three weeks after 9/11. He recounted an emotional, cathartic night of music which ended rather unfortunately for one band member... “I won’t say who,” Jeff teased, “he’s not in the band anymore... ok it was Leroy.” As Jeff told it, Leroy was walking back to his hotel room after the show when a man put his arm around him and demanded his wallet. The mugger justified: “if we don’t keep doing what we do, the terrorists win.”

     

    “I don’t think that I could’ve written this next song without Woody Guthrie,” Jeff continued, while strumming the intro to Please Tell My Brother. “I think getting to write music to his words taught me how to look for a certain kind of truth, it’s a low hanging truth that everyone looks past all the time. This is one of the only songs of my own where I feel like I captured enough of it to make my mom and dad cry.”

     

    As he’s known to do, Jeff also joked about his ability to “bring some of the Tweedy sadness.” He explained that when he converted to Judaism he took the Hebrew name Shlomo, which sounds like “slow mo.” “It’s appropriate and I like it,” he said.

     

    Musically, Cali Stars was certainly one of the oddest live iterations I’ve heard. Topped only, perhaps, by the evening’s grand finale of “This Land is your Land” where no one seemed to know the words or who was supposed to sing what. It was not the “!” that it could’ve been, but the gesture was heartfelt and maybe that’s what matters most.

     

    One By One

    Please Tell My Brother

    Remember the Mountain Bed

    Christ for President

    Hoodoo Voodoo

    California Stars*

    This Land is Your Land^

     

    *Joan Osborne on backing vocals and various musicians playing behind Jeff

     

    ^Most of the night’s performers traded verses

    2020 Touring

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    I keep writing and deleting my comment here, which is an indication that I ought to keep my mouth shut. That said... Co-headlining shows at large outdoor sheds wasn't exactly what I'd hoped for out of a fall tour, but I am excited that they will continue touring, anyway... 

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