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Haha, point taken. Thanks for checking out these inane ramblings, whenever you do so. I will admit it was much balmier (read: only about actual freezing) on Night 2 versus Night 1. But I was only going by Jeff's comment that it was like "a thousand below zero." Well, that and my numb toes...

#WaitingForThatA #AllDoneNow

For the final stop on this "Winterlude On The Road" series, the Wilco Express rolled into the familiar confines of the Palace Theatre on a frigid mid-December weekend in the Twin Cities (is there any other kind?) and rolled out the first part of what figures to be another epic trilogy of no-repeat, wide-ranging shows that have characterized this brief but fruitful tour. As always, it will be interesting to find out what the next two night have in store. Unlike the previous two stops in Austin and Tulsa, Jeff and his bandmates have brought a Winterlude-esque experience to the Palac

I'll have that TA now... Or maybe just a cuppa (TeA) to ward off the chill of Minnesota?

That makes more sense. Thanks for the clarification!

Well, Wilco Wednesday certainly didn't disappoint. That was the kind of barnburner of a show we hoped for when Wilco announced that it would play two nights at the storied Cain's Ballroom as part of this brief "Winterlude On The Road" tour, and while Night 1 was a fine performance, Night 2 really saw a little of everything — from wild jams and wonky notes to reinvented tunes and fan favorites, from a rowdy audience member apparently getting removed but ultimately being allowed back in to an adorable young fan in the front row literally receiving the microphone off of Jeff's stand from the fron

Coming off a remarkable kickoff to this brief "Winterlude On The Road" tour in Austin last week, in which Wilco performed 98 different songs over the course of three shows, it seemed only natural to wonder what — other than the venue and the days of the week — would be different when the scene shifted to another favorite old stomping ground: Cain's Ballroom. Would the band play anything that it hadn't in Austin? Which songs wouldn't make the cut, given the two-night run in Tulsa (versus three in Austin)? Would the energy from the audience be the same? Would Jeff put on a jacket again? You know

Yet again, I had to Google to understand what you were talking about. To quote the esteemed Scott McOi, I'm not bitter. #NotAtAll #JustALot

Anyone else notice that April 26th date as part of the Moon Crush Pink Moon weekend in Florida has disappeared from both Wilcoworld and the Topeka sites and seems like it might get scrapped? When you Google "Wilco April 26 Moon Crush," this is the first thing that comes up. It's a link to Wilcoworld, but it goes to a dead page: 26 April 2025 | Miramar Beach, FL | Moon Crush Pink Moon Apr 26, 2025 — Wilco - Tour - going to cancel 12/2 ~ 26 April 2025 | Miramar Beach, FL | Moon Crush Pink Moon. This was the announced festival, as reported by Relix back in August.

Approximately 15 people will be counting on you!

I shall be in attendance and endeavour to scratch your proverbial itch as much much as possible, O Tatlock. Not sure if Jeff and Emmylou will wind up doing anything together — here's hoping — but one of Jeff's performances is already listed as "Tweedy Creek," so we can safely guess that there will be some interesting stuff to come out of the presumed collab between Jeff and Nickel Creek.

Unfortunately I'm not able to make it this year, so I'll be looking forward to your reports. Thanks in advance for holding down the fort.

And just like that — 98 different songs, six full sets, three encores and a partridge in a pear tree — the first chapter of Wilco's "Winterlude On The Road" experiment drew to a close tonight. I'd say it pretty much was a resounding success. As Jeff mentioned each night in Austin, the idea behind this relatively brief tour was to bring the type of unique shows that the band has played in Chicago over the years under the Winterlude moniker to some different markets. These were special shows in which the band treated fans to such achievements as playing 100 unique songs over five nig

If only! #GongShow

Yeah, I get your point. I guess what I was trying to suggest with what I wrote about Someone Else's Song and just sort of that Being There-era in general is not so much that the band wasn't playing well, but there seemed to be — at least listening to some of the recordings from that time — more of a sense of irreverence or something. And I guess that's sort of what I took from the version of SES from tonight's show in Austin.

When you undertake a series of shows in which you promise not to repeat a song over the course of three nights and play some that you haven't in quite some time, I think it's safe to assume that a certain amount of planning has gone into the endeavor. There's picking the songs you want to play, then rehearsing the ones you don't know as well and of course dividing them up as evenly as possible over the course of the run, so that each show has its fair share of so-called "hits" as well as deep cuts that will satisfy both die-hard fans and more casual attendees alike — whether they are going to

Oh I was at that Miami show, too, and you're right about the set break. But I'm not sure it was intended that way, just that they hadn't figured out yet what they were doing. Haha. Anyway, I figured this setlist (and the prospect of more) might get you out of frigid Chicago. See ya in, uh, St. Paul? Lol. Yeah, exactly.

Well, in terms of audacity and endurance, tonight might not quite have been the legendary "An Evening With..." Wilco run of March and April 2010 — when the band played a series of epic, extended shows that included a mid-set segue into and out of an acoustic run of songs — but it came pretty darned close. Kicking off a run of seven shows in which the stated goal was to take the "Winterlude" concerts that Jeff and his bandmates have performed in Chicago over the years on the road to some different places, the first of three nights in Austin featured two separate sets (and a short encore) that a

Finally finished this one! OK, carry on.

Once again your dedication to my blather has haunted me since I finally managed to finish this one. But I had to pull the scroll out of its cylinder to do so, thus accounting for any amendment from your previous quotation(s).

For those of you following along at home, and I realize that number is probably in the low teens at this point, I offer at last this account of the final performance on Jeff's October solo jaunt across these United States. If you'll recall in my previous recap of the penultimate show on the tour, I suggested that for as ideal a venue as the Guild Theatre might have seemed, its intimacy and acoustics could sometimes lead to a too-sterile atmosphere that isn't the sort I prefer for this kind of show. Well...a corollary to that theory is that the venue can also fall victim to a particular kind of

Let me just say up top that I think I finally put my finger on why I've felt slightly uneasy, or at least not quite at home, since first setting foot in the Guild Theatre a couple of nights ago. And it's not the reserved seat/general admission standing situation I mentioned in my recap of Night 1. Those of us who bought GA tickets and wound up standing behind the five rows of seats on the main floor had a great view and even if we wanted to be closer to the stage or thought we would be, there really wasn't too much to complain about on that front. So what's the issue with a room I'

Not that tonight was the last show on this meandering Jeff solo jaunt across America, but we have reached the last stop. After opening with a three-night stand in pastoral upstate New York nearly three weeks ago, Jeff kicked off another three-night mini-residency in this Northern California bedroom community that will bring the tour to a close. It's tempting to compare these bookend series of shows — and we'll have to see if he plays three nearly unique sets here the way he did in Woodstock at the start — but if Night 1 of this stint at the intimate Guild Theatre is any indication, then it wil

Honestly I wasn't sure what to expect before we were allowed into the intimate confines of the Sweetwater Music Hall for tonight's "benefit gala" that was also another stop on Jeff's current solo jaunt across the country. I'm reasonably certain that none of the other shows on this run have featured tickets starting at $265 per person for general admission standing room and increasing to over $1000 for special seats and tables for four (as per the event's own press release) or had a live auction for several VIP concert experiences and a no-longer-produced Tweedy Martin 00-DB acoustic guitar tha

Not that I'm speaking from any kind of personal experience, but I can imagine that for some performers, building a rapport with a live audience isn't necessarily first and foremost in their minds. I mean, of course you want people to respond favorably to you, but once you develop a set of material you're confident in and the lights go down and everything fades to black, you try to present that set to the people in front of you to the best of your ability and let the proverbial chips fall where they may. But I guess it always helps when an audience seems to "get" you, perhaps even surprising yo