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Always appreciate you reading, Eric!

It'll take me a little while to get a full recap together, and I'll never be able to fully capture all of Jeff's very amusing forays around Banter Corner, but suffice it to say that it was a treat to be able to witness this intimate 75-minute performance in the cozy Acorn Theater. This was, as Jeff himself remarked at one point, "maybe the closest I've ever played to a bed that I owned," so it was especially nice to see how invested he was in a performance in front of many members of one of his adopted communities and that directly benefited a member of said community (namely Ibrahim Parlak, a

Probably any of the Tweedy band shows in the Roadcase. Wilco's never done it.

You prescient bastard.

Sounds like you're confusing Richard Bowden and Richard Thompson. Bowden plays fiddle in Ryan Bingham's band and sat in with Wilco on a few occasions on the AmericanaramA tour and afterward, while Thompson of course is the legendary guitar player who also played some shows on the AmericanaramA run. Regardless, I'd be pretty surprised if any new record is out before late summer at the earliest.

Nice! I just heard that this would be happening, but wasn't sure exactly when. (P.S. Good snooping...looks like they took the page down for now!)

Replying to my own post with an update... Not sure of the order, but according to some brief intel from my friend, Jeff did a solo acoustic Please Tell My Brother, then with Rosanne and her band: Seven Year Ache, Long Black Veil, Sea Of Heartbreak, California Stars and the aforementioned GFTNC. There may have been more, but that's what my friend remembered.

I don't suppose anyone on here made it to this show last night, and can provide any more details? A friend of mine snuck (and given how strict they usually are with camera phones and the like at Carnegie, snuck is the right word) a video of Jeff performing Dylan's Girl From The North Country with Ms. Cash and her band. I don't know yet if they performed anything else together (or if Jeff did an opening set). From this advance news item, it sounds like the plan was for Jeff to join Rosanne and Co. "for the second half of the program," which was to feature songs from her 2009 record The List.

Surprised that no one has posted about this yet. I'd be curious to know whether the person who kept the wallet was actually a Wilco fan or not... http://gothamist.com/2016/02/17/wallet_found_half_returned.php

Great to see you, Mike, and I appreciate the breather. Anyway, it's fitting that a hometown boy should deliver the report and you did a thorough job! I always wanted to make it to a Mountain Stage taping, so I'm glad I finally did. Apparently this show, which was #863 in the program's history, won't air until sometime around early April and it will be interesting to see what makes it in. Pretty stellar lineup for this episode — in addition to Wilco, Au Pair (with Gary Louris of The Jayhawks and Django Haskins of The Old Ceremony), Joan Shelley, Brooke Waggoner and Shawn Mullins were also on

[NB: I was still writing/editing this while the subsequent "rave" was posted, but as Buddy Holly said, rave on!] When the list of tour dates for this run of winter shows came out, you'd have been forgiven for scratching your head at the final headlining performance being in a theater in Roanoke, Virginia. It was the only tour stop that the band hadn't ever played before, and I hate to use the t word but you'd have to say this place fit the term "tertiary market" to a T. So, naturally, the 'Oke helped produce what I would say was probably one of the best all-around shows of the tour that I

That's an outtake of Taste The Ceiling, right?

For the penultimate headlining show of what has been a fairly long tour by current Wilco standards — and before a surely welcome off day — the band largely stuck to the template it has established in recent weeks: Star Wars, greatest hits, hootenanny. If there was anything I detected tonight, perhaps it was an early loss of concentration on Jeff's part. I counted three separate minor stumbles during the performance of Star Wars, which has rarely happened that I've noticed. Maybe he really was distracted by the audience member he pointed out to his right who apparently had a large Band-Aid ac

I guess you've reached adulthood when your band gets analyzed in The New Yorker?

Though it was nice to be back in the audience after regrettably (kind of) missing a week's worth of shows through some of my old stomping grounds, I must admit that I didn't necessarily have the highest hopes for the first of two nights at the Tabernacle. Part of that was just personally feeling a little tired, but part of it was also having heard about some recent crowds being overly chatty or rowdy. Given the Tabernacle's status as a Live Nation venue and some less-than-stellar experiences with GA venues in the South in the past, I just figured maybe Night 1 in Atlanta would be kind of jus

Congrats Kalle! You're big time!

Nice piece, Tim. It was a good read, and more informed than most newspaper reviews.

Not to be nitpicky, but you or the taper might want to correct the track listing for the last track of the main set to be Outtasite (Outta Mind). I'm sure no one cares, but Outta Mind (Outta Sight) is the so-called "Sesame Street" version of the song.

Thanks for the effort, all of you. I can't make 'em all, so it's always great to see and hear about what I've missed. I just figured with so many people on here going to the Orpheum shows that there'd be at least one eager beaver who would quickly post. But no worries, I know the setlists will emerge eventually... Funny about Taste The Ceiling...that's one of my favorites from SW too. And I have to say I'm a little surprised there weren't a couple more real nuggets either night. I'm not sure there was anything there that I would classify as being really out of left field (insert Green Monster

I guess Boston's not much of a setlist-noting town... Glad you all got what sounds like a longer, more rockin' show last night. Electric Spiders to kick off the post-SW set is definitely an interesting choice.

I wasn't at the show tonight, but it must have been a real barnburner given the lack of reportage thus far! Sources told me the printed setlist looked something like this (can anyone confirm/provide details?): More... Random Name Generator The Joke Explained You Satellite Taste The Ceiling Pickled Ginger Where Do I Begin Cold Slope King Of You Magnetized Company In My Back I Am Trying To Break Your Heart Art Of Almost Heavy Metal Drummer I'm The Man Who Loves You Hummingbird Handshake Drugs Camera Via Chicago Jesus, etc. Born Alone Impossible Germany The Late Greats ----------------------

I think they're still getting over Bowie...

Thanks a lot! Great to get to hang out with you guys for a bit! And thanks to all for the kind words about (and for reading) my blatherings.

Well, I was going to start a new thread for the show itself — with the preferred title style — but I'm too lazy at this point so here goes... An interesting show tonight in that I couldn't tell if Jeff was annoyed with, pleased by or bemused at the crowd at the State. Probably a little of all three. Just before the end of the show, he came up with a perfect summary of the show when he told the audience, "I have to say, what you lack in attentiveness you've made up for in spirit." He added half-jokingly, probably referring to the very loud screaming lady from either the balcony or the back

Is that a Devil's Device in your pocket or are you just glad to see me? FYI, I've attempted to supplement my report with some additional details. Not my best, but I try. Thanks for reading, as always, sir!