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Don't have time to write much of a recap and anyone who's that interested probably watched the live stream anyway, but since no one's started a thread yet... On Day 3 of this year's Pickathon Music Festival, Jeff closed out the "main stage" (called the Mt. Hood Stage) lineup with a pretty intimate-feeling 70-minute solo set in which he performed several songs from Wilco's forthcoming Schmilco album publicly for the first time as well as a selection of songs from throughout his career. Playing on his 21st wedding anniversary, he was in a joking mood for most of the set with various snarky c

I'll post the setlist in After The Show. The only song title I'm not sure of is the Dylanesque one he played to start the encore.

This isn't Friends...

Bloody Milennials.

#bangerz (and mash?)

Yeah, this fest sounds pretty awesome (though not necessarily for the middle-of-the-road Wilco fan). I also noticed that there will be a couple of extremely rare performances by some cult artists of the past like the '"mystical jazz singer" Patty Waters and Scott Fagan — Stephin Merritt's father, I believe — performing his lost classic South Atlantic Blues. More details here.

Fwiw, Jeff has actually played what I think is Happiness before ... at Second City last year. I jotted down a couple of lyrics at the time: "My mother always says I'm great and it always makes me sad... "So sad it's nothing/Happiness depends on who you blame/So sad it's nothing/Absolutely nothing."

Personally I don't get why so many people have such a strong reaction to the title of a record, or say that they can't "take the band seriously" because of a given title (or series of titles). What would you have them title it? "This album is a collection of songs and is meant to be taken seriously, thank you very much?" Seriously, though, maybe it would help me understand if folks would cite some album titles that they do like/love...

Are you asking me? If so, I say yes. Just to make you happy...

Just a quick follow-up to say that it was cool to see Wilco and Lucinda finally share the same stage. Not totally sure if it was the first time, but if not, then it has certainly been a good while. If memory serves, Lucinda was supposed to open for the Tweedy band at the Taste of Chicago a couple of years ago (or was it just last year?) before the show was unceremoniously cancelled due to rain that never really seemed to arrive. Anyway, in Dublin, she played almost exactly an hour, backed by her veteran band of Butch Norton on drums, Stuart Mathis on guitar and David Sutton on bass. For an

A mist of rain, alternately lighter and heavier at times, fell over Dublin's Iveagh Gardens during Wilco's final show of this summer's European tour, but that didn't seem to bother its frontman all that much. Actually, he thought it kind of fitting. "I think this is appropriate weather for a Wilco show," Jeff Tweedy observed after Jesus, etc. "It always feels bad to bum people out when it's sunny." Jeff needn't have worried too much about the sun rearing its ugly head on this night. Indeed, the weather conditions made it feel more like an early spring or late autumn gig but that didn't keep

Another "better late than never" post on this festival gig from the other night. Not too much to report, really, except that it was just a weird show... Wilco technically was the headline act on the first night of the three-day Cactus Festival that is held in a lovely park in Brugge (aka Bruges) not far from the train station, but by the time the band took the stage for its 11:30 p.m.-1 a.m. set time, it seemed like most of the crowd had already seen what it had come to see. Part of that might have been attributed to the immediately preceding band, Black Box Revelation, who were hometown her

Haven't been able to find much spare time to sit down and write something, which is what happens when you're constantly on the go, but I figured I should at least get something down about this one (especially after I walked about five kilometers on a very muggy night to find this venue and get back to my accommodations). Better late than never, I guess... To make a long story short, the venue for this show was a lagoon-esque site in the northern end of the second-largest park in Rome where they have an annual summer festival ("Roma incontra il mondo," which I think translates to Rome vs. the

Fortunately, they have an off night tonight (apparently the crew have a 30-hour bus ride from Roma to Belgium). But you must be so proud of Galles — as Gareth and Co. are called here — so I wish you the best. Wouldn't that be something if they got through to the final? Maybe the Portuguese will choke, as they often do...

Pat definitely does. Not sure about Robyn, though that would make some sense. I believe he and Emma Swift are an item.

Looks like there hasn't been too much reportage from this side of the Atlantic lately, or maybe it's just all migrated to other social media these days, but at any rate, I'm back on the case for the rest of the week. I was still a little jet lagged last night, so I couldn't quite muster up the energy to put together a recap after the show in Ferrara (and then I had to navigate getting to Rome, where I am now and where the band will play again later this evening). So anyway, once again, don't have too much time but here goes...something. Couldn't have picked many better spots or weather condi

FYI, you can also add Nels' participation at the Complete Last Waltz at the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester on November 23. Always wanted to make it to one of these...

Yeah, I'm retired...or retiring. Just kidding (sort of). We all have to pick our battles, and while I'm glad the band is expanding into new locales, trying to get to a different festival in a different country every day without the services of a driver would be kind of tough IMHO. And no, unfortunately I wasn't at the recent Philadelphia show.

Thanks for the reportage! Glad you guys had fun (and got to see another of the, ahem, illustrious bands to precede Wilco at festivals over the years). Out of curiosity, did Jeff say "hvala" or just boring old "thanks?" I remember when the band played in Zagreb previously that someone came out shortly before the band took the stage and hand wrote "hvala" on Jeff's setlist...haha.

Thanks for sharing that, and mazel tov! That must be so nervewracking knowing that you only have one more chance at the procedure working. I'm sure Wilco will put on a good show for you guys in Vida, so enjoy it!

Well, since no one bit on my SF/LA openers post, I guess I'll try another California-related item that I haven't seen posted yet about Wilco returning to the Bay Area to headline the Sound Summit Festival on Mount Tamalpais with Los Lobos and Bill Frisell's Guitar In The Space Age on Sept. 17 (after the LA shows). http://www.jambase.com/article/wilco-headline-sound-summit-2016-mount-tam

Some pretty cool support acts just announced for the West Coast run. Joan Shelley, Kevin Morby, Phil and Dave Alvin, old friends Scott Amendola (in Amendola vs. Blades) and Jeff Parker! Wonder what's up with support for the Chicago show...hmm.

I wasn't there, but fwiw, I wouldn't necessarily call it a "change in format" as much as another option for a festival Star Wars set. For the record, they have done the abridged SW at least at one other festival but I'm glad that this particular set appeased you.

Great job, Michael! I still can't believe you can do a setlist that long from memory, though I guess having Star Wars in order helps out a bit... Sorry I've taken so long to chime in on this show, but I guess I don't have all that much to add. It was kind of a weird show from my perspective, partly because of the sound issues that Michael mentioned. I guess I was just expecting the sound to be better in a room like that, which was a nice seated theater where a symphony orchestra normally plays. But then again, I also think that the acoustics aren't necessarily the greatest either for rock or

Dont want to steal the reportage thunder from our hometown correspondent(s), who welcomed Wilco to town last night for what I'm pretty sure was its first-ever headlining gig here. But if necessary, I'll try and chime in with some thoughts a bit later...