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Backstage at Largo Friday February 25 Orphan (Spencer on thigh slaps. Macie Stewart & Sima Cunningham on backing vocals.) — Jeff explains that they are backstage at Largo at the Coronet Theater. — Jeff gets his “game face” on, as do the rest of the band. — Jeff can’t reveal who’s next door in the backstage area because it’s a surprise for the audience. Susie says that the surprise was ruined on social media by using the surprise guest’s initials. Jeff jokes “how do they know it’s not Norm Oscarberg.” — the band members give Susie their names & ages. T

Last night of Sky Blue Sky January 20 What an amazing ending to what sounded like a stellar 4th & final night! Thank you, Susie! I didn’t keep track, but I’ll update this section soon. If you’re seeing the setlist making the rounds over in FB land, the filming started during Born Alone. Hmm. (I spy a setlist debut in there!) Born Alone Jesus, Etc. Hate It Here Heavy Metal Drummer I’m The Man Who Loves You Candyfloss Casino Queen Outtasite (Outta Mind) Cut Your Hair (Pavement cover sung by Stephen Ma

The Tweedy Show Wednesday January 19 Episode 212 Sky Blue Sky Day 3 - Jeff Tweedy Band w/Special Guests. Bad Day Lately Love Is The King A Robin Or A Wren Opaline High As Hello Having Been Is No Way To Be Gwendolyn Evergreen Half-Asleep Don’t Forget Even I Can See Save It For Me I Know What It’s Like Low Key Some Birds The Red Brick Warm (When The Sun Has Died) Helpless (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young cover sung by Sammy.) Family Ghost Guess Again Let’s Go Rain Friends

Haven’t watched it yet, but TCM is playing the elusive Looking For Mr. Goodbar at midnight (or in 90 minutes EST). This is one of those oft talked about films that never had a DVD or Blu-ray release in the U.S. & shows up once every five years or so on cable. I believe the issue was the music rights which were rumored to be astronomical with all of the disco songs in the film. Others think it might be due to the subject matter & Diane Keaton’s dark role.

Thanks! It was more about not really being able to see who was behind Jeff in Mikael’s place.

The Tweedy Show Tuesday January 18 Episode 211 Sky Blue Sky Night 2 w/Special Guests Wow! That was amazing! Susie filmed about the last hour of tonight’s show. You can most likely find it on her IG page right now. Thanks again! I’ll let Paul post his recap first & then I’ll update this info. Those special guests though! Pot Kettle Black (sung by Sophie Allison a.k.a. Soccer Mommy) Hummingbird How To Fight Loneliness Impossible Germany Kingpin Passenger Side (sung by Kurt Vile) Dawned On Me Airline To Heaven Ca

https://www.pbs.org/video/austin-city-limits-7th-annual-hall-of-fame-honors-90-min-ije3u7/?fbclid=IwAR1ClUPoJ0wM1rHxWkrHq3KaiuP9WMw8imCPBHN1wcvQ7jFQZVZhHMk2fg0 You can now watch the 90 minute version of this special over at PBS.org. That’s a whole extra half hour! Or you can still set your DVRs for it this weekend. Check your local listings…

The Tweedy Show Thursday January 6 Episode 210 -- Spencer welcomes everyone to the show. -- Susie wishes everyone a Happy New Year. -- Jeff discusses the Sky Blue Festival. He 100% understands all of the anger & confusion surrounding the festival. He says that Wilco is in the same boat as the fans. They are a contracted entity. He hopes that there is a clearer outcome for everyone. He would rather have everyone be angry at him, then at each other. He's upset at the divisions this has created amongst the fans. He apologizes for the silence. -- Patrick Sansone is in the chat. He

The Tweedy Show Thursday December 23 Episode 209 (Jeff & the band Live At Metro.) A Robin Or A Wren (partial) Opaline High As Hello Having Been Is No Way To Be Gwendolyn (Jeff stops the song early because his string broke.) Evergreen Gwendolyn Half-Asleep Don't Forget I Know What It's Like Save It For Me Ultra Orange Room Low Key Some Birds The Red Brick Warm (When The Sun Has Died) -------------------- Helpless (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young cover sung by Sammy.) Guess Again Family Ghost Even I Can See You Are Not Alone Let's

The Tweedy Show Thursday December 23 Episode 208 Helpless (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young cover sung by Sammy. Spencer on drums & backing vocals. James Elkington on electric guitar. Sima Cunningham on bass guitar & backing vocals. Macie Stewart on violin & backing vocals.) -- "hello everyone!" Who Loves The Sun (Velvet Underground cover sung & performed on drums by Spencer. James Elkington on electric guitar. Sima Cunningham on bass & backing vocals. Jeff, Sammy, & Macie on backing vocals.) -- Jeff explains that Wilco performed Who Loves The Sun at one of t

The Tweedy Show Wednesday December 22 Episode 207 -- the Tweedy family say Happy Birthday to Sammy, while everyone is backstage at the Metro in Chicago. Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You (Bob Dylan cover with Spencer on drums. James Elkington on electric guitar. Sima Cunningham on bass & backing vocals. Macie Stewart on violin & backing vocals.) -- Susie checks in with Jeff to see how long tonight's special episode should last. -- Susie says "hi" to Eric, James, Sima & Macie. Let's Go Rain (with Spencer on drums & backing vocals. Sammy on backing vocals. Jam

The Tweedy Show Thursday December 16 Episode 206 -- the Tweedy family & Casey sing Happy Birthday to Spencer. -- Spencer blows out his candles with some help from an app on his iPhone. -- Sammy shows the clients a framed drawing of the Tweedy family created by Matt. -- Jeff asks if anyone noticed his reflection in his fake gold tooth in today's Substack post. Evergreen (with Spencer & Sammy on backing vocals.) -- Spencer reveals that he is 26 years old today and someone told him that he knows nothing at 26. Spencer feels that he is over the hump of his 20s & feel

The Tweedy Show Tuesday December 7 Episode 205 -- Jeff welcomes the clients to the Tweedy Show. -- the Tweedy Show opening is a fan produced video by the Tweedy Show Client Union and organized by Jeff Knurek. -- Susie & Jeff love the surprise video. Susie promises to play it again later in the show. -- Susie asks Jeff what he thought of Get Back which leads to the first song of the night. -- Jeff, Spencer & Sammy abandon The Beatles' Two Of Us. Two Of Us (The Beatles cover sung by Sammy & Spencer while on drums.) -- Jeff says that "we loved Get Back." He wants

The Tweedy Show Monday November 22 Episode 204 -- Sammy welcomes the clients to the Tweedy Show. -- Sammy is wearing black leather pants that Jeff once wore at a show at the Vic. Jeff laughs at the fact that he bought them at The Gap. Don't Forget (with Spencer on thigh slaps.) Mi Shebeirach (Debbie Friedman cover sung by Sammy w Spencer on backing vocals.) Winter Rose (Billy Nicholls cover sung by Spencer.) -- Susie shows a book of Woody Guthrie's lyrics that is signed by Nora Guthrie. (The book should be coming out this month.) -- Jeff sings a bit of Another Man's Done Go

I decided to try to see Ghostbusters: Afterlife yesterday, before all of the kids go on a holiday break this coming week. I was the only person in the auditorium. I thought that it was a beautiful film that hit all the right spots & emotions. It’s truly a love letter to the fans and it ends in an exciting place that made me fill with excitement. I think the timing of this film is rather perfect for the generation that grew up with it. It’s a perfect film to take your kids to and let them fall in love with another franchise. The young cast was all around terrific, especially Mcken

I decided to make Netflix Original Films my theme for November. I watched Sand Castle last night and was surprised when Jesus, Etc. was playing through the main character’s headphones. The film is set in 2003 at the beginning of the Iraq War.

I decided that it was time to venture out to one of my local theaters to spend Saturday afternoon with Wes Anderson. The French Dispatch was a terrifically fun time, but also a celebration of journalism and the written word. This was one of his best films, in terms of cinematography and art direction. I even think some of his sets were miniature. The film’s structure was an obituary, a travelogue & 3 short stories. It was tough to pick a favorite segment, but I loved seeing Adrien Brody spar with Benicio Del Toro in one of the stories. I won’t spoil the plot of that one. Frances McDormand

Happy Birthday, Via Chicago!! Wow!! I really had to think about how I stumbled upon this place. I noticed that I officially signed up on June 1, 2004. I’m almost positive that I was forced to sign up in order to download the 2 shows from Otto’s, but I most likely lurked as a “guest” for at least 6 months. I chose my screen name because I saw a few people using other band names around here. Almost as if to say I came over here from this other band, but Wilco is doing something special that needs me to sign up for their message board and mingle. I’m not on any other band’s message boar

I think that might be true with the heavy participation in Sing 2. They must know how polarizing they are, so they figure to target young kids watching an animated film. The same concept got Elton John a whole generation of fans without the polarization. America is a much different place now compared to when The Lion King came out, so I wonder if parents will avoid this film knowing that Bono is in it. I can totally see that happening and hurting the film’s box office, but the studio can blame Covid for any sort of failure. And I say America because there will be different recording artists vo

I was delightfully surprised last night to find The Beta Test available to rent. I knew that it was being released in select theaters today, but had no idea that it was going to be a Same Day VOD. The film is a pitch black comedy satire of Hollywood & social media, while doing double duty as a thriller. Jim Cummings has successfully created another wholly original film, but this time with PJ McCabe who co-wrote & co-directed. The overall exaggerated tone felt like homages to Altman’s The Player and the comedic scenes of Lynch’s Mulholland Dr. (The Cowboy scene & the produ

The Tweedy Show Thursday November 4 Episode 203 -- Basil welcomes the clients to the Tweedy Show. -- Susie introduces Spencer, Casey, Eugenia, Sammy & Jeff. -- Susie & Jeff try to guess which show Paul is at during tonight's episode. The answer is My Morning Jacket. -- Jeff is triggered by mullets because that's what haircuts the kids that used to pick on Jeff had. -- Susie ponders if anyone in Bachelor Nation is a Wilco fan which leads Jeff to tell a story about a fan in the front row who wanted to move the monitor wedge around on the stage, so that he could hear the

I wanted to give a recommendation for a film that I consider to be one of the very best films that I’ve seen all year: Small Engine Repair. I saw a trailer for this film back in late August and noticed that it was set in Manchester, NH which is about a half hour from where I live. The film was actually shot in upstate NY except for a few aerial shots of the red mill buildings in Manchester. Anyways, the trailer had me intrigued and I was surprised to see that it got booked in a theater in Manchester. It didn’t get much of a wide release around MA/NH, so I decided to go see it on open

I was browsing the U2 fan pages a few weeks ago and found out that they will have a new song, Your Song Saved My Life, featured in the Sing 2 movie coming out this Christmas. Bono even lends his voice to a reclusive lion rockstar. The song will be released digitally tomorrow. I’m guessing that they’re trying to get an Academy Award. Losing to Eminem is understandable, but losing to the Frozen song was rough. The song sounds decent based off of the 30 second sample. It might be a leftover from the last 2 records. No one really knows when it was recorded. I guess anyone can record songs a lot mo

I didn’t feel the need to start a new thread, but Spotify added 2 new Jeff Tweedy songs today. They’re part of the Sub Pop Singles Club Vol. 6. They are C’mon America and UR-60 Unsent. C’mon America sounds like it might have been played on The Tweedy Show, but I haven’t looked hard enough at the untitled songs to see which one. I thought that it might have been “I Love My Country Stupid & Cruel (Sing In The Choir), but it is not. UR-60 Unsent is actually the song that Jeff called Film Strip, when he played it twice on an older episode of The Tweedy Show. That was quite

Excellent setlist shakeup for the second night! Dear Santa, Please make these 2 Portland shows part of the Road Case collection. Thanks!