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Alas, I had to get to this show quite late so I missed most of Waxahatchee's opening set. There was a strange moment when she had to pause the set-closing Fire because apparently a gentleman in the crowd had collapsed or gone catatonic or something, so I hope he ultimately was OK. Katie And Co. were able to pick up the song literally right from where they had stopped and made it through the rest without further incident.

Thanks for the info (though I'm going to assume it was Outtasite (Outta Mind) and not the reverse (aka the Sesame Street version)! Usually the Wilcoworld setlists are accurate, but not always, so it's great to get clarification from folks who were there. Thanks for sharing some more info on the show!

For a variety of reasons, I can’t say I had the highest hopes for an outdoor show in Houston in an amphitheater-type setting. First, there was the very real potential for it to be uncomfortably hot, humid, stormy or otherwise unconducive to enjoying music outside. Then there was the venue itself, which is essentially a lawn and concrete area outside a building with a makeshift festival stage set up featuring various steel barricades and folding chairs. And the audiences in settings such as this have occasionally produced some of the most annoying/bizarre/uncouth/indifferent behavior I’ve ever

After an extra day off due to the May 2 show in Birmingham, Ala., being postponed because of weather (and later rescheduled for May 12), Wilco and Waxahatchee landed in the Big Easy for a Saturday night show during the final weekend of Jazz Fest. Unfortunately I wasn't able to attend, but I saw some video clips and heard from a couple of folks who were there and it sounded like another solid show in keeping with the sets the band had played in Florida the previous week. If anyone on here did attend, please do chime in. Meanwhile, for record-keeping purposes if nothing else, here wa

Glad you had a good experience. Florida is weird, though.

Yeah, whoops my bad. That’s what happens when you try and write these things at like 6 a.m. when you have a flight to catch. Will correct.

And here was Waxahatchee's opening set, for anyone who might be interested: 3 Sisters Evil Spawn Ice Cold Can't Do Much Problem With It [Plains] RIght Back To it Crowbar The Wolves Lilacs Tigers Blood Fire

For its final show of this mini-Sunshine State tour within a tour, Wilco returned to relatively familiar territory at the St. Augustine Amphitheatre. If it feels like it was just yesterday, that the band performed here with a memorable surprise cameo by Warren Haynes Derek Trucks in the encore, well, it kind of was — in touring time, anyway. That show only happened a little bit over two years ago when Jeff and Co. were promoting Cruel Country, though obviously since then they have released an entire new record and EP. Looking back, The Amp (as it bills itself) has been a pretty common sto

They had three shows (the tour opener in Fairhope, AL, St. Petersburg and the last show of the spring U.S. run in Louisville in a few weeks) that were designated as “Evening With…” shows with Wilco playing two sets. I mean, obviously, if you’re just there for Wilco, then it’s best to have gotten to one of those. But Waxhatchee is pretty popular these days as well, so some people might prefer to catch a set from them as well as a slightly shorter Wilco set.

Jeff has said, a while ago now, that the music for the third Loose Fur record is done, but that it was just a matter of him sitting down and putting lyrics to it. But obviously he has been pretty busy with Wilco and Tweedy band stuff the past few years, so I'm sure that got put on the back burner. Hopefully not for good.

And for anyone interested, here was Waxahatchee's setlist as played: 3 Sisters Evil Spawn Ice Cold Can't Do Much Problem With It [Plains] Right Back To It Crowbar The Wolves Lilacs Six O'Clock News [Kathleen Edwards] Fire

I don’t think I’m going too far out on a limb to suggest that Florida is a weird place and, in my experience, it almost seems to get weirder the further south you get. So with Wilco’s “Sweet And Sour” tour reaching its southernmost U.S. point tonight with a rare stop in Miami Beach — it was the band’s first show in South Florida in nearly 13 years, I believe — I guess I should have expected things to be a little off. Not that the show was a trainwreck or anything, or that even the vast majority of attendees would probably give anything other than a rave review, but I will just say that fr

You Brits have your own personal bears? There’s so much I have left to learn…

Surely there's a song that mentions my fave mysterious British burg, Milton Keynes...

With only three “Evening With…” shows scheduled as part of this spring’s “Sweet And Sour” tour with Waxahatchee, each one must be savored because it’s another chance to hear some songs that Wilco doesn’t always get to play because of time limitations. For tonight’s performance at the cumbersomely named Duke Energy Center For The Arts – Mahaffey Theater, add that it’s the only indoor “Evening With…” show on the run and you had an opportunity for a unique and memorable, well, evening with Wilco. And with more than a quarter century having gone by since the band’s last show in St. Petersburg

Great! You can do the recaps from there since I'm not trekking all the way back out there after flying home to Chicago after the Seattle shows to catch Uncle Neil a short walk from my place. It kind of pains me not to be going to Edmonton since it's a) the last show of the tour; b) the last Wilco show for a while maybe; and c) it's my birthday. Perhaps I'll reconsider, but lines must be drawn somewhere...

Oh yeah, the infamous Tallahatchie Bridge. That's in Mississippi. I believe the most famous musical reference to Tallahassee must be the song Tallahassee Lassie by Freddy Cannon (and also recorded by the Flamin' Groovies and the Rolling Stones, among others).

Me neither!

For anyone interested, here was Waxahatchee's 45-minute opening set as played: 3 Sisters Can't Do Much Problem With It [Plains] Right Back To It Burns Out At Midnight Crowbar The Wolves Hurricane [Plains] Lilacs Six O'Clock News [Kathleen Edwards] Fire

It had been, as both a promoter and Jeff himself reminded the audience, a decade since Wilco had last played in Tallahassee. To the day, as a matter of fact. Indeed, on April 26, 2015, the band stood on this exact stage and spent more than two hours running through a 30-song set. Back then, it had been called the Capital City Amphitheater and Jeff and Co. obligingly broke out The Whole Love rarity Capitol City at the start of the second encore. In fact, amazingly, that was the last time that song has ever been performed live. Now the venue has acquired the somewhat fancier moniker

And so it begins. Again. The first Wilco show of 2025 was an “Evening With…” performance on a muggy Friday night in the unlikely locale of Fairhope, Ala., a charming bedroom community a short distance east of Mobile. There is apparently a regular schedule of concerts at the Halstead Amphitheater here — the Live At Five series — and judging by the lines to get in, they seem to draw the entire town for a pleasant night of music under the Alabama stars. More on that later. In Wilco’s case, of course, there were plenty of people who had traveled from near and far to attend. On my way to the p

At the risk of angering the VC gods, I am making the unprecedented decision to combine these two solo shows into one thread. Gasp! If/when I get a second, I'll try to write some sort of thing about these two shows. But don't hold me to it... Here was the complete setlist, as played, for Night 1: Feel Free Normal American Kids New Madrid An Empty Corner Should've Been In Love You Never Know Family Ghost Sunlight Ends You And I Pot Kettle Black One By One What Light The Thanks I Get More Like The Moon

Just doing a little housekeeping, since I wasn't at these short appearances by Jeff and friends. But they should be acknowledged on here, and if on the off chance anyone here attended either of those performances, please do chime in. On April 12, Jeff helped induct Daniel Johnston into the West Virginia Music Hall of Fame and also performed a few of Johnston's songs with help from the Tweedy band (from social media clips, it looks like James Elkington was on electric guitar, Macie Stewart was on violin and backing vocals, Sammy Tweedy was on backing vocals, Spencer Tweedy was on dr

After suggesting an earlier post that Jeff might come out during Nickel Creek's final set of the cruise and sing the Bob Dylan song Tomorrow Is A Long Time that had been on the printed setlist for the Tweedy Creek show but wound up being cut for time, that ultimately didn't happen. Just in case anybody had been wondering... During its set, however, Nickel Creek did do a pretty awesome cover of The Lonely Island classic I'm On A Boat, with some of the lyrics changed to fit artists on Cayamo. Perhaps some on here will be happy to know that Jeff was one of those who got a shout out, i

Outside on the pool deck, under the hot mid-afternoon sunshine and in the salty sea air — the perfect setting, in other words — Jeff closed out his Cayamo schedule with a fun family band show featuring actual sons Spencer and Sammy on drums and backing vocals/harmonica, respectively, and adopted son Liam Kazar on bass. (Introducing his band near the end of the set, Jeff pointed them out individually as he presented, “Sammy Tweedy, Spencer Tweedy and Liam Tweedy.”) From the outset, Jeff made it clear that this set would feature songs from his solo catalog — none of which “have been