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I'm not going to say what difference a day makes, but on the second night of his three-night solo run at the cozy Bearsville Theater, Jeff seemed like he had certainly gotten his footing underneath him after an opening show that saw him experience some of the expected performance struggles that often go along with a period when he has been in the studio recording new material and focused on what's to come rather than what has been. Or perhaps it was just the gift he got from his friend Scott Reilly, a vintage early 1970s book called Electric Rock that Jeff said he had been reading just before

How do I do this again? Not that I would ever equate what Jeff does on stage with my inane blatherings here, but in a way I kind of felt like we both had a similar experience tonight of trying to shake the proverbial rust off after a bit of a layoff. In Jeff's case, the layoff wasn't all that long if you consider his last regular show was "only" a few weeks ago but assuming he has been working on a new record or three — it's hard to know how seriously to take his comment about a triple album — you can understand that this kickoff show of a coast-to-coast solo tour was one of those where he see

Emerging from hibernation simply to add this show as a matter of housekeeping here, since it was live-streamed as a Tweedy Show episode (and already recapped in that thread). Maybe later I'll add a very brief recap that no one will care about, but I feel compelled to add this before I resume correspondent duties on Jeff's coast-to-coast solo tour , which kicked off tonight! Anyway, here was the complete setlist as played: I Am Trying To Break Your Heart Gwendolyn A Lifetime To Find New Madrid Evicted Hummingbird Jesus, etc. Impossible

Pretty sure that was the promise when those shows first went on sale. At least I thought so, but I've been wrong before!

After taking a brief summer recess from these parts, it appears I am back on duty starting tonight. And to answer the Tatlock, I will indeed be touring in ‘25. Marking my quarter-century of seeing the Wilco.

Midway through the final night of a three-night run at the Beacon Theatre, during one of his sporadic audience check-ins, Jeff got interrupted by some louder-than-usual song requests shouted from the crowd. He has, by now, perfected his method of dealing with rogue requests, telling the requesters that they must fill out the “requisite forms” on Wilco’s Web site. “I think it’s a pretty good way to do it,” Jeff said. “We’ll get to all the songs some of you want to hear.” What was clear — and I think Jeff himself even said at one point, if not in so many words — was that

Guess we just saw different things or had different expectations. While I didn't see any obnoxiously drunk folks or blatant talkers or anything of that sort, I saw a fair amount of what I would call blasé or disinterested-looking folks. There was a couple in front of me where the female half sat for almost the entire show and looked like she would rather have been anywhere else. There were also two women seated to my right who barely made it through a quarter of the show before leaving for refills of their drinks and snacks and then, a few songs later, left for good and never returned. During

vern on the Green in Central Park? Unfortunately it's a bit rich for my blood...

Great shots as usual, Charles (especially the candid of my man, Ashwin)! Nice to get a sense of the setup at the front of the stage there. So was it reserved seating? Or GA seated? I seem to remember there not being that stanchion/barrier thing across the front last time and them letting people actually sit on the steps of the stage, but that could be a faulty memory. I also remember someone tossing an empty beer can that hit John and Jeff not being happy about it.

Thanks to VCer Nalafej for posting a link to the setlist for this PRIVATE gig. I don't expect any reports from this one — although if anyone happened to be lucky enough to go, by all means please chime in with details — but just starting a thread as a matter of record keeping since we at least know what was played. It's not unprecedented for Jeff and Co. to play the occasional corporate and/or private/invitation-only gig. I'm sure they were very well compensated. Here was the setlist, according to a photo of the printed setlist posted online (can't verify if there were

Given all the social media posts and various tributes of late, you might have expected Jeff to say something or at least somehow acknowledge today’s 20th anniversary of the release date of what more than a few people consider to be one of his band’s career-defining records, A Ghost Is Born. But in all the years I’ve been going to Wilco shows, I’ve rarely known Jeff to be sentimental — at least outwardly so — about things like specific anniversary dates for his own work, and I don’t think he’s about to start now. So it wasn’t much of a surprise, then, that on the second night of a t

Ha, no I only posted right before I left before Night 2 because the site was being super glitchy for me earlier.

Less than 24 hours after leaving the stage in a pastoral setting outside our nation’s capital, the men of Wilco were back on one in the big city — in the heart of the Upper West Side, at one of New York’s most famed music venues, to be exact — to kick off a three-night run leading into next week’s Solid Sound Festival. The contrast between the Filene Center at Wolf Trap National Park For The Performing Arts and the Beacon Theatre is certainly palpable, though I think both venues share some of the same drawbacks for those of us who prefer to enjoy a rock show in a certain way. Assum

I heard it was a 90-minute set, fwiw. Which makes sense under standard contract terms.

Nice. I guess that blasted setlist.fm does have its uses from time to time.

Are you aware of any details regarding that gig? I was aware of it, but don’t really know any specific details…

Ah, the large-scale summer show at a venue like the venerable Filene Center at Wolf Trap National Park For The Performing Arts. So pleasant, so chill, so made for the maximum enjoyment of the maximum number of people. Is it an indoor show? An outdoor show? Would you call it a shed? I don’t know exactly how to describe it, to be honest. I just know I’m glad that I don’t have to see all the artists I like at places like that… Nothing against Wolf Trap — I’m going to use its common moniker — of course, or places like it such as Ravinia outside of Chicago or Tanglewood outside of Bosto

Unfortunately I wasn't able to make it down for this show, but in the interest of recordkeeping, if nothing else, I figured I should at least crosspost the setlist over here as posted by the good folks at Wilcoworld. If anyone was at the show, please chime in with some thoughts/reports/etc. For now, here was the setlist as played, according to Wilcoworld: Infinite Surprise Handshake Drugs War On War At Least That's What You Said I Am My Mother Cruel Country I Am Trying To Break Your Heart Meant To Be Company In My Back Cousin

Is that really an aricandover sighting? After all this time? Hey Jim!

He was just referring to the song Falling Apart (Right Now), which he said they had played during their set(s) at Carol’s and was pretty much made for Carol’s.

After an early pall caused by a medical emergency of some sort — the affected person apparently had to be carried out on a stretcher, so it seemed to be more serious than your standard concert fainting incident — Night 2 of Wilco’s two-night hometown run at the Salt Shed “fairgrounds” finished in gloriously rocking fashion on another second straight lovely Chicago evening. From my vantage point, it was difficult to tell exactly what what going on but I’m sure others had a better view of it, including the band, which fortunately was between songs — I Am My Mother and Cruel Country,

Ha, I misread your earlier post. I thought you said Can’t Stand It and What Light don’t qualify as deep cuts (and, well, I kind of snobbishly think they’re just mid-deep). Is Casino Queen deep-cut worthy? Umm….🤔 (Doesn’t mean I wouldn’t like to hear it, but really, a deep cut? That’s the beauty of the definition that set, though. It means different things to everybody!)

You need to come up front and will it into existence and stop being such an old man yourself!

I think people are going to be disappointed if they set their expectations for that "Deep Cuts" set too high. Set expectations low and be pleasantly surprised would be my advice! I certainly hope there will be some truly deep cuts, but I'm kind of starting to think we're going to mostly get what would be called album tracks. Stuff from albums that hasn't been played very often live, rather than crazy non-album tracks or whatnot. Just my suspicion. Is Kicking Television a deep cut? That one seems pretty likely to me. But I'm still holding out hope for Let's Not Get Carried Away!

Oh, what a night…how’s that song go again? Okay, maybe “mid June back in ’24” isn’t quite as catchy as what we’re used to, but as Jeff kept remarking during the show, he couldn’t believe how nice the conditions had turned out for the first night of a two-night run at the new Salt Shed “fairgrounds.” And really, isn’t that everything when it comes to playing an outdoor concert during the summer months? As someone who has endured plenty of those, especially in humid climates, I can tell you that it pretty much is. The Salt Shed is, I guess, Chicago’s newest major venue — a reclaimed