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My friends and I actually ran into Jeff and Susie after the show that night getting in their car across the street from the Vic. This was well after the show; we had gone to grab something to eat, I think. Anyway, I didn’t know them nearly as well as I do now (not that I know them that well), but I remember not being able to believe that they were just getting in their car to drive home after what we had just witnessed a few hours earlier — and for the previous three nights. Anyway, I think we just expressed sympathy at all the technical problems and told him we had still had fun a

Oh, thanks for the ID help with the Dr. Dog singers. I missed their set unfortunately (or rather, retreated from the loudness of it) so I missed them. Good to know who they were. I’ll correct my post above. And yeah, glad you noticed that problem with Handshake too. I wasn’t sure he was gonna make it out with that electric in time. Night 1 was overall my favorite, too. Just the bonkers start and debuting Shakin’ Sugar…it was very unpredictable. Thanks for reading.

Yeah, I’ve got a couple friends who also have boycotted SBS because of the way Cloud 9 handled the 2022 event so I get it (looking at you, @Sandoz). It’s not everybody’s thing anyway, so again, you have to make that decision. But it is nice that the band makes an effort at pulling out some rarities and does stuff like no repeats, etc., for their shows there. Is there a rugby version of The Super Bowl Shuffle, though? #notheretofeathersruffle

wot, not a fan of alliteration?

Well, just when it seemed like we might not get any collaborations by Wilco with other artists at this year’s Sky Blue Sky Festival, several happened at the 11th hour that got everyone talking — for better or, uh, not better. This was during the encore of Jeff and Co.’s third and final show of the event, which was just about in the books when some of the folks who were still around came out and helped to bring it home. The cavalcade of collabs kicked off when Wilco returned to the stage soon to be joined by the ever-present MJ Lenderman, who emerged with electric guitar in ha

Maybe it was the fact that I had literally just seen the band perform a few hours earlier, but I couldn’t help but think of Golden Smog at the end of Wilco’s second of three sets at this year’s Sky Blue Sky Festival. One of my all-time favorites of Jeff’s lyrics comes from his song I Can’t Keep From Talking — namely, the part that goes “I know all the words/To every song/And I don’t really care/That tonight you sang one wrong” — which I think just gets to the heart of what it means to be a fan. It’s one thing to forgive or shrug off a mis-sung word, though; it’s another to sk

Only if Jeff truly committed to the bit and crowdsurfed again. Been waiting 20 years for that to happen again. Never has.

I guess I never really wrote about the three Golden Smog shows in Jersey City, N.J., New York and Chicago last month, in part because I think Via Chicago was having one of its recent outages at the time and also admittedly due to my own pre-holiday slacking. But suffice it to say I felt fortunate to be able to attend all three because a) I got to see a couple of them with some of my closest musical friends and b) they took place in some of my favorite venues anywhere. So it was a somewhat unexpected — or more accurately, hoped-for — treat to get another opportunity to see the

Complete setlist, as played: One Tiny Flower Caught Up In The Past Flowering New Orleans Forever Never Ends This Is How It Ends Low Key World Away Mirror Stray Cats In Spain Out In The Dark Cry Baby Cry Diamond Light, Pt. 1 No One’s Moving On Feel Free Lou Reed Was My Babysitter Mexico [Sammy Tweedy] Enough Number of Twilight Overr

The Friday, opening night set at the Solid Sound Festival has traditionally been a place where Wilco will do something unique and special, such as playing all covers, performing a new album in its entirety or devoting an entire set to deep cuts. But judging by the past couple of times the band has held its other festival, Sky Blue Sky, those opening-night sets might be giving the ones at Solid Sound a run for their money. Look no further than Sky Blue Sky 2023 when Jeff and Co. decided, for some reason, to start the show by playing the opening tracks off nearly all their stud

Wow, that was…something. I think maybe I understand a bit better now from whence the Tatlock emerged…

All talk and no play makes Jeffy a dull boy? OK, I admit that’s just a pithy comment that came to mind when I was trying to think of a way to start writing about tonight’s fourth and final show of Jeff’s annual run of solo performances at Largo. But maybe there is a little something to it when looking at what set this, uh, set apart from the others we have been treated to this week. For one thing, we got more songs played (22) than on any of the previous nights. Of course that could be attributed, at least in part, to the absence of any of the longer songs in Jeff’s catalog — no Fe

Is this what AI Tatlock looks like? And if so, what is AI Tatlock’s general disposition? Better than that Hal, I hope…

Believe it or not, I do have a couple of minions.

Wow, I am hono(u)red...I think? At the very least something to marvel at over my morning cuppa...