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Before Jeff plays a few shows all by his lonesome here in Los Angeles and then in Texas, he bid farewell to his solo band — sadly, for who knows how long — with one more full set that once again demonstrated how talented each individual band member is and how well they have gelled as a unit. And once again, the band changed things up enough with the setlist to keep it interesting for those folks seeing more than one show, while also keeping the focus squarely on songs from Love Is The King and Jeff's other relatively recent solo work. While Jeff's Largo shows have always traditionally

Yeah, I always struggle with what to title this band. Because it's no longer TWEEDY, but it also doesn't feel entirely accurate to just say "Jeff Tweedy," even if that's what the show is billed as...

If I'm not mistaken, it has been nearly a decade now since Jeff started playing shows at the intimate and beloved Largo at the Coronet Theatre in West Hollywood. And if it wasn't clear by now that it's one of his favorite rooms anywhere in which to perform, then he said as much toward the end of tonight's show when he talked about how great the room sounded, alluded to the fact that the audience there really listens (in part because of the venue's total intolerance of electronic devices) and shared that he loved being able to play "quiet and sad" music that could also make people smile at the

Well, da then. You've got yer teatime reading for two.

Oh, didn't realize! He said the first night that it was his first show in, like, more than two years. Here’s a quick pic I snapped the first night:

Whot, no Barry O'bama?

A bit ramshackle, I'd say, though the walking boot he had on one foot didn't help his look. Better the second night than the first, though. He played in a duo, with a guy on keyboard whose name I didn't catch. More highlights: https://twitter.com/BastardMachine/status/1496345835575156736

Am I being kinda lazy by writing about both Fillmore shows in one recap? Yeah, I guess so. But I really do think, in this case, it would be difficult to talk about one show without the other in a lot of ways. As Jeff himself observed on Night 2 when he pointed out that he and his band would be playing a little longer set than the previous night and joked that the Night 2 audience members shouldn't tell anyone they knew who had been at Night 1, there was a natural tendency to compare the two shows, particularly after an opening night of the tour that perhaps was a bit rowdier than a

#IfEver #JustAGuy #TheyDontTellMeAnything

Of interest to no one, I finally finished up my recap from the final Wilco set of Sky Blue Sky in the original post. Basically added a few paragraphs, more or less rewriting the ones that somehow vanished from my post late that night/early that morning. And, as promised in that writeup, I'm also finally getting around to a brief comment/recap about the Autumn Defense set from earlier in the day. Not sure where else to put it, among the various threads, so I guess I'll just stick it here. For the general laid-back vibe of SBS, I don't know that anything captures it better than watch

Nice work, Tim. Finally had a chance to read, and I thought you did a good job capturing the general atmosphere of the event. As expected, some excellent photos all around. That one of Mavis and Jeff from the Beach stage is great! And thanks for the new nickname for Mr. Bull Black Nova; hope you don't mind if I use that moving forward. Just one note: Cut Your Hair was played at the all-request/all-covers set at Solid Sound in 2013, not 2015. Blasphemy, surely! Funny enough, I was wondering where the mariachi were this year. I didn't see them at all. They were

They didn't always have a poster for every show back then, and I'm not counting semi-generic local poster(s) created by the promoter or venue. Are you sure there was one?

Thanks for reading. And good to see you down there, Tim. Sorry we didn’t get a chance to chat longer. I’m sure you got some great shots, though. Looking forward to your recap.

Since it’s technically not a Wilco song, I don’t know if I can rank it in my top five Wilco songs. But I would if I could. And it’s been a highlight of the set since they started playing it more regularly the past couple of years.

Yes, first time by the “full” band. Jeff mentioned it afterward. I had it in my original post, but that was in the part that disappeared. I will add that and a few more paragraphs in tonight.

When you consider all of the challenges of putting on an international gathering during a global pandemic and all of the back-and-forth in recent weeks over whether people would come or should come, if refunds should be offered, if the event should be cancelled or postponed, how many people would test positive and be forced to quarantine, what acts would drop out and everything else, I suppose you could say that it was a minor miracle that the second edition of Wilco's Sky Blue Sky festival happened at all, much less happened and left people wanting more. And yet I think that is wh

Just for you, Herr Tatlock!

Oh so many memories, oh so many roads...

But it's just the two of us amigos talking to each other — and into the larger abyss — here, isn't it?

(Parking this thread temporarily whilst I try to overcome festival fatigue...) I'll admit, it's personally been a slightly stressful few weeks leading up to Sky Blue Sky 2022 in terms of trying to figure out whether the festival was still going to take place, whether or not to make the trip, taking precautions to avoid a positive test and so forth. When the event's status was cloudy and then some previously announced acts began to drop off the bill, I thought surely that 82-year-old Mavis Staples wouldn't trek down to Mexico this time. Why take the risk? But as the proceedings got

I was going to circle back and combine the two Metro shows into one post, since I sort of slacked off on writing about those shows (and Susie live streamed the whole thing). But it's fine.

Only for you, Tatlock. Da.

Yeah, I have that info as well but just haven't notated it yet. I'm sure about 10 people other than you and me care, haha.

Well, Mavis was wearing a Tweedy Show T-shirt so I should have guessed that the live stream was on. Go ahead and post what you want. I already posted the complete setlist. It'll take me a few hours later to actually write something coherent.

I feel like I should really title tonight's recap "Wilco and friends," but whatever you want to call it, it will be pretty hard to top this second of three Wilco sets at the second edition of the Sky Blue Sky festival. Not only were there no repeated songs from the previous night's set, as well as a number of middle-tier rarities, but of course the presence of guest vocalists Mavis Staples, Kurt Vile and Sophie Allison and a couple of other cameos elevated this show to another level. The appearance of the 82-year-old Staples for the two-song encore of You Are Not Alone and Freedom