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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

Oh wow, I totally didn't recognize that it was Stacy who was up there trying to get the attention for the sick person! Well, I'm glad it was resolved quickly and everyone was OK. Good to see you as well, if only briefly.

Well, Wilco is officially back on tour. Since we last saw the band Down Under in late March, it has gotten some new merch, a couple of new crew members, announced some new music and, as you might expect leading up to its biennial Solid Sound Festival in just a couple of weeks, generally kept pretty busy in Wilcoworld. In fact, I would even say that the world of Wilco is on the road toward North Adams, Mass., as we speak, except for the fact that the tour routing — not surprisingly — has the band back home in Chicago for a couple of shows after tonight's opener just up the highway in Milwaukee

I don't know exactly how many years Jeff has been playing these benefit shows at the Vic now, and I'm sure a more respectable nerd would be able to give you that information off the top of his/her/their head, but it's just shy of 5 a.m., so sue me. Suffice it to say it's been the better part of two decades now — at least since that memorable Kawasaki disease benefit show organized by a friend in 2005 that another friend and I were fondly reminiscing about before tonight's show. Jeff's solo performances in Chicago have understandably evolved since those days, as both he and his audience have go

Thanks, kidsmoke, or should I say (San) ta (Monica)?

Just before playing the final song of his four-night run at Largo for the year, Jeff tried to come up with a few words to summarize what the venue and this run of shows has come to mean to him over the years. And I, for one, am glad that they were recorded as part of a live-streamed episode of The Tweedy Show that his wife Susie was diligently filming from the back of the room — which has also become another tradition of sorts — because unlike some of Jeff's myriad banter over the course of four shows, it felt like these were sincere sentiments that you wanted to get right and so I appreciated

Well, there is of course a song on The White Album by that name, but the one Jeff played at Largo was a more developed version of the demo he shared on his Substack last year. Not sure if you have to be a paying member of the Starship Casual to access that post, but anyway.

As he strummed the opening chords to another midtempo number he was about to play — I'm pretty sure it was Evicted — Jeff paused for a moment and took stock of how the third show of this year's annual multi-night run at Largo was going on this Sunday evening. "I get a real hushed vibe tonight, guys," Jeff observed. "That's great, I enjoy that. But is it too quiet? I can play some uproarious numbers." And with that, he switched tacks and suddenly launched into a twangy and fun version of Casino Queen that instantly injected some energy into the room and explained how that had been the original

Oh, would I? They've never played a special set at Solid Sound that was specially designated as " Deep Cuts" or whatever. That 2015 Saturday set at SSF wasn't designated as a "deep cuts" set, even though they did play Panthers, A Magazine Called Sunset, Let's Not Get Carried Away and Dark Neon, among others. Wilco Friday "theme" sets at Solid Sound Festival 2010 no "special" set 2011 no "special" set 2013 Covers 2015 All Acoustic 2017 Audience Album Vote (Being There, plus surprise bonus Yankee Hotel Foxtrot) 2019 Audience Karaoke 202

Did you mean T(opang)a, as in the Canyon?

Methinks you have used that one before. Have you considered a Ta(rzana) by chance?

Ha, thanks man. Should of course have cross-referenced Wilcoworld before I posted blind guesses for the new song titles like an idiot. I'll edit the original post above to reflect the apparent actual titles.

Geez, are we halfway through this year's Largo run already? Well, Night 2 of this four-night stand for 2024 gave us slightly less chat from Jeff overall than on Night 1 but did give us a chance to hear yet another new song as well as revisit two other new songs played on Night 1, get some "fucking pie" for Jeff's nephew Charles (Tweedy Show holla!), be very pleasantly surprised by a song off Wilco's first record (no, not that one) and listen to California Stars for the 4,000th time and genuinely not mind (as long as some sort of singalong can be achieved). I guess we can just start

Yeah, that word probably makes more sense in that line so I edited my original post to reflect that. Thanks for the clarification.

Just when it seemed like we might suffer a year without a run of Jeff solo performances at Largo, poof...four dates suddenly materialized on the calendar a few weeks ago. And thank goodness they did (and thank goodness for the alert friend who nabbed tickets on my behalf when they went on sale because I sure wasn't in much of a position to pounce on them when they hit the interweb around 3 a.m. Australia time after a Wilco show over there. It really does take a village.) Anyway, obviously Jeff had to move his annual Largo dates a little further down the calendar on account of his recovery from

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