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I would imagine TWEEDY would be playing a set.

I really hope so too!!! I'm really hoping for two nights of Wilco & TWEEDY on Sunday!!

Someone on the Steve Hoffman Music Forum just posted that Richard Thompson is recording his next album with the same band, an electric trio, as he toured with last (great band BTW)...but...I'm still hoping for some guest star spots from members of Wilco. As far as Solid Sound goes I'm now guessing that we'll get an Richard Thompson Band electric trio show with some guest starring from at least Nels Cline & Jeff Tweedy, then I'm sure he'll sit in with Wilco some, & I'm really, really hoping that he might also play an acoustic set there as well- playing twice, two different types of sets, on two different days a la what Yo La Tengo did at Solid Sound 2013.

The great hope that there would have been some kind of a compilation Roadcase Release from Wilco's many & varied AmericanaramA performances, especially the various incredible collaborations/guest stars (Richard Thompson, Ian Hunter, Beck, Bob Weir, Sean Lennon, Cibo Matto, Feist, Warren Haynes, My Morning Jacket, Bob Dylan etc., etc.) just never materialized. So, outside of any recordings that are being traded about out there (might be around, don't know, others feel free to chime in here) this is all they we've got of any footage of Wilco & Richard Thompson together on that tour.

"Sloth" by Wilco & Richard Thompson... 7/12/13 Bridgeview Park, IL
Better Quality & longer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oM_9bH8qwrg
Pooer Quality & shorter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2i9JUEnO9i8

"Suzanne" by Wilco & Richard Thompson & Feist... 7/15/13 Toronto, Ontario
Very short excerpt, & poor quality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWPLyb5cPSw

"Sloth" by Wilco & Richard Thompson... 7/9/13 Duluth, MN
Very short excerpt & poor quality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UF8jPfAVeE

 

Jeff Tweedy is now producing the next Richard Thompson album. According the Richard's Facebook page they are recording at The Loft right now & according to The Loft's Facebook page someone who's playing there right now is utilizing an Orange Morgan TV12 combo amp. That is one beautiful & lucky amp. I'd say this news bodes pretty well for the line-up at Solid Sound 2015!!!!

I'd love him to headline the 3rd day with Wilco as his backing band!!!! Love to see him play both electric & acoustic sets too. Yo La Tengo played twice (one standard & once as a live soundtrack to a film) when they did Solid Sound in 2013. But I'm just looking forward to the sparks that are likely to be flying!!! I hope this means that he might utilize Wilco and/or it's various members (Jeff & Nels & maybe even Pat on guitar) for work on the new album too.

Yo La Tengo in 2013...now I"m betting Richard Thompson in 2015... WOW!!

At a minimum, they played together at Noblesville, Cincinnati, Duluth, Peoria, Chicago, Clarkston, and Toronto on that tour. I remember some pictures (tweets, maybe?) that indicated that Nels and Richard hit it off. Not surprised by that.

Wilco/Jeff Tweedy & Richard Thompson are two of my favorite artists ever. I was lucky enough to have caught the last two in Clarkston, MI & Toronto, ON. They did "California Stars" & an absolutely epic & mind blowing version of Richard's old Fairport Convention classic "Sloth", with Richard & Nels trading & intertwining solos that were just mind blowing...then in Toronto they also did Richard's old Fairport Convention days arrangement of Leonard Cohen's "Suzanne" with Jeff & Feist singing the Ian Matthews & Sandy Denny parts of that duet arrangement. And in Clarkston, they raised the roof by closing with a cover of The Beatles "Tomorrow Never Knows"!!

Richard Thompson working with Jeff Tweedy is about as perfect a match as I can think of... I hope this means that he might utilize Wilco and/or it's various members (Jeff & Nels & maybe even Pat on guitar)...I love all eras of Richard's works...but my faves are his duet album with his wife Linda Thompson...and... I think things were also uniquely especially amazing at the end of his stay with Fairport Convention where he & Dave Swarbrick on Violin were creating things that sounded like a cross between Television, The Velvet Underground & Reinhardt& Grappelli. I think Nels pushed him to those rare places that he & Swarb inhabited.

And finally, I'm betting that this pretty much seals that Richard Thompson will be playing at Solid Sound 2015!!!! I'd love him to headline the 3rd day with Wilco as his backing band!!!!

1) Wilco: 3 nights of 20th Anniversary Port Chester Oct. shows > 2 Ohio Sept. shows (Columbus & Akron)
2) Jeff Tweedy: solo acoustic all-request at The Vic, Night 2 > Night 1
3) Tweedy/ Jeff Tweedy Washington, DC & Buffalo > Baltimore & Ithaca
4) Yo La Tengo: 30th Anniversary Shows NYC, Night 2 > Night 1
5) St. Vincent: London (Ontario, Canada) > Akron > Buffalo
6) Donna The Buffalo: Blue Heron Fest> Rochester Public Market > Rochester Water Street > Grassroots Fest
7) Tedeschi-Trucks Band: Buffalo > Rochester > Syracuse
8) Television: Toronto

There were others, but these were truly the bands that drove my wheels (often literally as in road trips) & those that I chose to see multiple times.
While the Wilco shows were probably as high a highlight as I could imagine period...all the top shows for each of the performers here are roughly on the same level of jaw-droppping & mind-blowing & ranking them just isn't possible...but listing them certainly is...gratitude for the sonic communion to all involved...

I was at the Knoxville show, so when I went up for the first two Winterlude shows it was pretty awesome to hear some different hootenanny songs, especially Art of Almost. But like you said, I really hope they keep adding different songs during the run next year, I've got tickets to all 3 of the Florida shows

Right On! & Right On & Enjoy!

Just these two were "hootenanny" style

Thanks! That's what I kind of figured. Yeah, for those that have, or went to that show, they might prefer those versions. I'll revise my first post here with that pertinent info. Thanks to both you & "SarahC" for pointing it out & clarifying the situation fully for me.

Because they did both of those during both the Port Chester & Chicago/Winterlude shows, getting Knoxville for me would be a show of all repeats, & all hootenanny repeats, so I'll probably pass...others might feel otherwise.

I'll be curious to see, as the 20th Anniversary Shows continue, if they do add any different songs to the hootenanny parts of the show...and if they pick off & do any of the 16 or so songs from the regular catalog that haven't been done so far...especially the still elusive "Sunloathe".

they did the hootenanny in Knoxville

 

most notably they did "the lonely 1" that night. 

Which ones were "hootenanny" style in Knoxville?

I see two sets of encores... I'm guessing the second set? I may be wrong, but I guess that "Impossible Germany" & "The Lonely 1" were the standard full band versions.

Although these ("Misunderstood" & "California Stars") do repeat what was done at both the Port Chester & the Chicago/Winterlude shows, folks might want to add these third versions & jettison some of the other repeats that cross over between Port Chester & Chicago Winterlude (Give Back The Key To My Heart-twice, Too Far Apart, True Love Will Find You In The End, Be Not So Fearful & New Madrid)

Encore #1:

Impossible Germany

The Lonely 1

Encore #2:

Misunderstood

California Stars

That is pretty awesome but seems like a lot of work. 

It was very easy with iTunes... Took me very little time to set up the playlists... a couple of minutes total actually. If you are at all familiar with iTunes, it's a pretty simple process.

Here's how my 2 CD-R's worked out...I ended up choosing to drop the audience sung "Ripple" as cool as it was. Others might choose to drop the two extra versions of "Give Back The Key To My Heart"- it appears here on VOLUME I from the Chicago Winterlude shows, & then again twice from Port Chester on VOLUME II (the only song repeated in the whole Port Chester run).
Arrange 'em however it works best for you... collect 'em all, mix 'em up different ways, trade 'em with your friends... enjoy!

VOLUME I (79 minutes & 21 songs):
(16 Winterlude Encore songs from Nights 1-4, 4 songs a night, right in a row as they appear at the end of each show)

Misunderstood*
(1 non-encore acoustic song from Port Chester Night #3)
Bob Dylan's 49th Beard
(4 non-encore acoustic songs from Winterlude... 2 from Night #4, followed by one each from Night #3 & Night #1)
Shakin' Sugar
Dash 7
No More Poetry
Childlike & Evergreen

VOLUME II (79 minutes & 19 songs):
(1 non-encore acoustic song from Port Chester Night #1)
Promising
(8 Winterlude Encore songs from Nights 5 & 6, 4 songs a night, right in a row as they appear at the end of each show)

ELT*
It's Just That Simple*
Always In Love*
Hoodoo Voodoo*
(10 Port Chester Encore songs from Nights 1-3, right in a row as they appear at the end of each show)
Too Far Apart
Casino Queen
Give Back The Key To My Heart
True Love Will Find You In The End
That's Not The Issue
Be Not So Fearful
California Stars
Misunderstood
New Madrid
Give Back The Key To My Heart #2

OK here is the raw material below for creating a great Virtual 2 CD-R "Wilco 20th Anniversary Unplugged" set. In the next post I'll give you my recipe for how I ended up doing a 2 CD set of 79 minute CD's. Luckily it just worked out pretty easily...arrange 'em however you want. So we are working with the 3 Port Chester, NY shows (#37-39) & the 6 Chicago Winterlude shows (#40-45).

The Knoxville show (#36) had two hootenanny encore songs- "Misunderstood" & "California Stars"- both of which were repeated at both the Port Chester & Winterlude/Chicago shows...folks who would want to add those to the mix are welcome to. I won't personally, but others might want to add these third versions & jettison some of the other repeats that cross over between Port Chester & Chicago Winterlude (Give Back The Key To My Heart-twice, Too Far Apart, True Love Will Find You In The End, Be Not So Fearful & New Madrid).

4 Non-encore songs of acoustic nature from Chicago Winterlude shows:

Ripple

 

All of the 6 Chicago Winterlude show Roadcase downloads are now available (#40-#45)!!!!

Downloading the Winterlude shows now... all six working fine...long way to go with the downloading process itself...but nice way to end the year & get this surprise at the end of Yule!!

Still no audience recording yet for opening night 

The Roadcase of it should be out any day now. They are usually released 2 to 3 weeks after the show, & today marks the two week mark... so I'm hoping before Xmas, but at least by the end of Yule (Jan 2nd).

I still feel, quite strongly, that, along with "St. Vincent" by St. Vincent, that it's one of the two albums that towers above everything else as as great a release as there was this year. It's not doing badly in year end lists, but it's not doing anywhere near as well as it should, considering how great it is. A truly monumental double album!!!

I'm very excited that Jeff mentioned in one of those U.K. interviews that he & Spencer have mixed another Tweedy album already (I'm assuming with tracks left over from all they recorded...heck 3 non-album tracks have surfaced out here already- B-side of a single & two on the St. Vincent film soundtrack)...and... I look forward to someday hearing Wilco's takes on these tracks. The Tweedy band did great work with them & I'm hoping we may get to hear them again at 2015 Solid Sound!!

I agree 100% that any version or assemblage of Mekons members would be a great addition. They've been one of my favorites since seeing them in the late eighties and I've never seen them do a bad show. They have several very accomplished visual artists in their ranks as well - bet they could put together a great short term exhibit in some small area of MassMoCA.

Wow, great call on that aspect as well. I recall they did a similar thing with an art installation that also involved a book & CD, all entitled "Mekons United" back in 1996. Great idea!!! Viva Mekons!!!

and book the Mekons while they're at it. haven't seen them in decades.

The Mekons would be incredible!!! Great idea!!! They play very infrequently as a full band anymore...but any of the band members/their projects would be great!!!

The Mekons would be as great a choice as I can think of...right up there with Richard Thompson, Television, etc.... and Yo La Tengo from 2013!!

WXRT broadcast is now up on youtube... to tide you over until the Roadcase version is released...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYJWdMnJTyc

WXRT broadcast is now up on youtube... to tide you over until the Roadcase version is released...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYJWdMnJTyc

I just had a chance to listen to this. It's up on youtube now.

Damn, that final encore tore my heart up. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYJWdMnJTyc

What a great run of shows. It's easier to post what they didn't play than what they played. All of YHF, A Ghost Is Born, and all the Tweedy/Bennett songs from Mermaid 2 were performed.

 

A.M.

I Thought I Held You, That's Not the Issue

 

BEING THERE

(Was I) In Your Dreams

 

MERMAID AVE.

Christ for President

 

SUMMERTEETH

We're Just Friends, My Darling

 

SKY BLUE SKY

Sky Blue Sky, Please Be Patient With Me, Leave Me (Like You Found Me)

 

WILCO (THE ALBUM)

Solitaire, Sonny Feeling

 

THE WHOLE LOVE

Sunloathe, Black Moon, Open Mind, Capitol City, Rising Red Lung

First of all, to whet your appetites for the forthcoming Roadcase releases of all the Winterlude shows, the WXRT broadcast of Night #2 is now up to listen to on youtube!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYJWdMnJTyc

Second...So now we gotta find out who is gonna do the leg work to find out which Roadcase shows these 16 missing songs are on?

If, in fact, they all are. Soon enough I'm sure, all the Wilco catalog will have live version of te songs out there...very cool!!! And remember before the official Roadcase releases there were donation/free downloads of two shows from 2009 to raise money for I can't recall what... So there should be access to find most of these out there somewhere or anything. If anyone want to chime in with where to find the best versions (Roadcase especially, but Owl & Bear otherwise too) of these missing songs, feel free to share & enlighten all concerned.

And finally, beyond the above list of the 16 songs they didn't do, here is the glory of the tangible stats of what's gonna be on those 6 Roadcase show... what isn't here in the numbers, though it's hinted via the lists is the absolute magic of it all. I'm enjoying it right now listening to the youtube post of the WXRT broadcast of Night #2

180 songs were played over 6 nights...120 different songs were performed, 19 non-album tracks & apparently 101 from there regular studio albums (16 regular studio album songs were not performed) including the Mermaid Avenue albums...

1) 10 Songs done 3 times, with 2 different versions performed:

It's Just That Simple*- album version (Night 3) and hootenanny (Night 6)

Hoodoo Voodoo*- album version (Night 5) and hootenanny (Night 6)

3) 30 songs repeated with the same version done twice.

Sunken Treasure

Panthers

A Magazine Called Sunset

Born Alone

Poor Places

Either Way

Hummingbird

Theologians

Hotel Arizona

Outta Site (Outta Mind)

Red Eyed and Blue

Secret of the Sea

Via Chicago

Bull Black Nova

Blood of the Lamb

Deeper Down

I Am Trying To Break Your Heart

I Might

Message From Mid-Bar

Dark Neon

Another Man's Done Gone

How To Fight Loneliness

Far Far Away

What Light

Pot Kettle Black

Impossible Germany

The Good Part

Let's Not Get Carried Away

Just A Kid

Kicking Television

2) feel free to double check, but here's a list of all the 19 songs they've played that aren't on their standard album releases...

Someone Else's Song*

Airline To Heaven*

Whole Love*

Shot In The Arm*

ELT*

It's Just That Simple*

Always In Love*

Hoodoo Voodoo*

**- Note Port Chester Hootenanny Encore Sets (which it should be noted, & it was in the reporting here, were "*performed partially without PA" included  "Casino Queen", "That's Not The Issue" & "Ripple" which were unique to Port Chester & not done at Winterlude. Hootenanny songs done in both Port Chester & at Winterlude: "Misunderstood", "New Madrid", "Give Back The Key To My Heart", "Too Far Apart", "True Love Will Find You In The End", "Be Not So Fearful" & "California Stars".

16 regular album tracks that were not played...

A.M. (2)

I Thought I Held You

That's Not the Issue

BEING THERE (1)

(Was I) In Your Dreams

MERMAID AVE. (1)

Christ for President

SUMMERTEETH (2)

We're Just Friends

My Darling

SKY BLUE SKY (3)

Sky Blue Sky

Please Be Patient With Me

Leave Me (Like You Found Me)

WILCO (THE ALBUM) (2)

Solitaire

Sonny Feeling

THE WHOLE LOVE (5)

Sunloathe

Black Moon

Open Mind

Capitol City

Rising Red Lung

I find the lack of whole love songs very surprising. I was under the assumption that at least two or three of those were in the regular rotation

They did 4 of the 5 pretty regularly on the tour for the album- they did the whole album, save for "Sunloathe"...I saw them do "Black Moon", "Red Lung Rising" & "Capitol City" myself- still haven't seen "Open Mind" yet.

Look what they did over those 6 nights (on paper since I haven't heard them yet, but judging by the 3 Port Chester shows I did see...) looks like it was probably about as great a live run as I can think of, by anyone, ever. So remember that, as I say this... If they were going to run short on any album, I wish it hadn't been "The Whole Love" as it's probably still my personal fave, but... I'm pretty sure all of those, except "Sunloathe", are out there somewhere on other Roadcase shows, so it's all good. The other ones I'd have to loved to have seen them take on were "Solitaire", "Sky Blue Sky" & "Promising"...OK and "Please Be Patient With Me" too... but again, they didn't set out to do the whole catalog & they still almost did it...and while missing 16 songs, they did even more than that many non-album tracks. I look very forward to hearing the Roadcase shows of these!!

setlist.fm (http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/wilco/2014/riviera-theater-chicago-il-43cd27c3.html) has the set list for Night 6 up now, & outside of the hootenanny set & "Far Far Away" & "Blood Of The Lamb" it's all repeats...so a bit less exciting as a download, but I'll get it just to have all six of these & because it looks like a pretty amazing show nonetheless...Here it is...

• 1. Red-Eyed and Blue
      
  2. I Got You (At the End of the Century)
      
  3. Secret of the Sea
     (Billy Bragg & Wilco cover)
  4. Too Far Apart
      
  5. Via Chicago
      
  6. Bull Black Nova
      
  7. Blood of the Lamb
     (Billy Bragg & Wilco cover)
  8. Deeper Down
      
  9. I Am Trying to Break Your Heart
      
  10. Art of Almost
       
  11. I Might
       
  12. Message From Mid-Bar
       
  13. Dark Neon
       
  14. Another Man's Done Gone
      (Billy Bragg & Wilco cover)
  15. How to Fight Loneliness
       
  16. Misunderstood
       
  17. Far, Far Away
       
  18. What Light
       
  19. Pot Kettle Black
       
  20. Dawned on Me
       
  21. Impossible Germany
       
  22. The Good Part
       
  23. Spiders (Kidsmoke)
      (electric arrangement)
  24. Encore:
  25. Let's Not Get Carried Away
       
  26. Just a Kid
       
  27. Kicking Television
       
  28. Encore 2:
  29. ELT
      (unplugged)
  30. It's Just That Simple
      (unplugged)
  31. I'm Always in Love
      (unplugged)
  32. Hoodoo Voodoo
      (Billy Bragg & Wilco cover) (unplugged)

Didn't they do Tomorrow Never Knows with Weir?  Have they ever done it just as Wilco? 

They did it with Weir first, but... I saw them do it two other times. In New York with Sean Lennon, Beck & Cibo Matto all on stage (it followed "Yer Blues" & Beck also did "I Am The Cosmos" with them that night too), and, best of all, I saw them do it in Michigan with Richard Thompson sharing vocals with Jeff & lead guitar with Nels, right after they'd done a 15+ minute workout on Thompson's "Sloth". Mind blowing!!!

They did it a few times on the AmericanaramA tour... my bet is that it was one of the songs they had in the running for the all-covers night at Solid Sound, but that they decided to do "And Your Bird Can Sing" instead (which was my request for that, along with plenty of other folks I'm sure, & best of all, they did it twice in a row).