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Guess I'm replying to my own post, but I just wanted to quickly add a few notes and quotes from last night's show:. As a friend remarked to me afterward, Jeff was really quite funny tonight with his banter. I only have time to mention a few things now, but he had his dry wit going last night: *After a somewhat tepid effort by the audience to the call-and-response parts in Someday Soon, particularly the swoon, Jeff cracked, "You guys aren't the Jordanaires," referring to Elvis' longtime backing vocalists. *Noting the crowd's enthusiastic response to a particular riff in I Am Trying To Bre

Back on the case (for one night anyway)! Always a special treat to catch a show at the Ryman, but it was even a little bit more so for me because it was the first time — believe it or not — I had managed to catch any Jeff-related project in those hallowed halls. Much more to come about what seemed like an extra-long TWEEDY show (33 songs total and about 2 hours, 20 minutes). For now, here was the complete setlist as played: Down From Above* Diamond Light* Flowering* Wait For Love* Summer Noon* Honey Combed# Desert Bell* World Away* New Moon* Fake Fur Coat! High As Hello* Low Key* Slow Love

Excellent reportage! I'm glad someone was able to pick up the proverbial slack. I think you should do this post-show thing more often (I might finally be able to retire)! From a setlist perspective, it would seem like Dallas got the "better" show of the ones in TX. Interesting that Jeff chose to debut a new song there, but I guess that's just how it goes sometimes. Seems like the more this band has a chance to play and rehearse together, the more they'll grow as a unit and, by extension, the more material they'll be comfortable playing. (From what I heard, this group only had a handful of re

Yeah, I sort of figured that would happen once he relocated to NYC full-time. There's so many opportunities and people to play with there, even more so than LA. I think it's great for someone like Nels, who loves to play, doesn't have kids, etc. But it certainly is exhausting to try and keep track of it all!

I have to say, this isn't something I necessarily saw coming... End of Love reform w/ new members Nels Cline & Jody Stephens, announce a show; Lee Ranaldo on LP, Nels touring Americana powerpop band End of Love existed in the early '00s in NYC. Original members Jay Deegan, Jennifer Groves, and Irwin Menken reformed the band with a couple additions you may recognize: Wilco's Nels Cline on guitar and Big Star's Jody Stephens on drums. The band's forthcoming new album, Ghosts on the Radio, was recorded in Memphis' Ardent Studios and also features appearances from Wilco's John Striatt from

Looks like the Lucius ladies will be joining the TWEEDY band at tonight's ACL taping, according to a recent post on one of their FB pages. Maybe we'll finally get the debut of I'll Sing It? Whatever they're singing, I wish I could be there... :crybaby Also, an Austin-related question. I keep seeing tomorrow's show being described as taking place at the Cactus Café? Did they move that into the UT Student Union building or something, or is that just the name of the ballroom there? Because if I'm thinking of the Cactus Café I saw a show at a long time ago, that place is really tiny!

Wow, that is great news. Congrats, Kalle!

One funny bit from Banter Corner: When Jeff was introducing the band before Slow Love, as he usually does, he said Spencer was his son and then looked back at Liam and said "he's also my son, but from a different mother." (Jeff had joked at some previous shows that he and his wife had unofficially adopted Liam as their third son.) Obviously Jeff was kind of going for a "brother from a different mother" sort of thing, but he quickly realized how his comment sounded and corrected himself. He joked that he'd have to call his wife (to clarify) before the show could continue. Lol.

Although I've been fortunate to see Wilco play in this legendary venue a couple of times, I always wondered how a quieter gig like a solo show would go over. As I was informed by some pals, the previous time Jeff had played solo here, it was a reserved seating setup. On this night, however, it was "full-on rock club" — general admission standing and without even a barricade at the front. Jeff acknowledged as much, noting at one point that this was TWEEDY's first show in such a setting and that they had mostly been playing venues with nice, cushy seats thus far. So in that sense, Jeff probabl

Excellent news for you! Wish it was a wee bit later, so there'd be a chance I could attend. But as it is, I'll be awaiting your reportage...

Alas, I had to miss this one so I have no setlist to provide. But sources tell me that Via Chicago and Gun were among the highlights of the solo portion... I suspect (hope) that a certain KCMO-ian (?) will be along shortly to provide some more details.

Also, I just wanted to say that as I mentioned in my initial post, this was the first TWEEDY show that Jeff's wife (aka srmt; aka Sukierae) attended and just before the main set-closing Pecan Pie, which he dedicated to her because he said it was the only song of his that she could remember the title of, Jeff acknowledged — I think maybe for the first time publicly — that Susan was dealing with a serious health situation and added how he appreciated feeling all the love and support from people since she got the diagnosis. He went on to say, among other things, that she has been inspirational fo

Since I've been discussing the support acts on this tour, this was the first night with The Handsome Family. They played as a three-piece band with Brett on electric guitar and Rennie alternating between banjo and a ukulele bass and a drummer, Jason Toth. Although they seemed to be having a little trouble keeping their instruments in tune — mentioning more than once how they didn't seem to like the Midwestern humidity — it's always great to see them. If you're headed to a show they're opening on this run, do yourself a favor and get there in time for their set. Here was their setlist, as pla

I'm sure it won't take long for someone to chime in, so for now here was the complete setlist as played for the latest round of TWEEDY (the first show, I believe, at which Sukierae herself was in attendance): Down From Above* Diamond Light* Flowering* Desert Bell* Summer Noon* Honey Combed* World Away* New Moon* High As Hello* Where My Love* Fake Fur Coat# Slow Love* Nobody Dies Anymore* Via Chicago^ Spiders (Kidsmoke)^> Muzzle Of Bees^ I Am Trying To Break Your Heart^ New Madrid^ Born Alone^ Hesitating Beauty^ Jesus, etc.^ Pecan Pie^ -------------------------- Wait For Love* Low Key* Giv

Thanks much for the kind words, sir, though I think we both know who should take home that title...

And once again, in case anyone is interested, here was the complete setlist for the opening set by the Minus 5 (which was reduced to a three piece tonight since guitarist Casey Neill, who had played in Baltimore and Washington, apparently couldn't make it; Liam Cunningham of the TWEEDY band pitched in on keyboard and electric guitar for most of the set): I Still Miss Someone [Johnny Cash] Twilight Distillery The Old Plantation The Days of Wine and Booze My Generation In The Ground Can't Explain [The Who] Aw Shit Man There Is No Music Original Luke Of course Scott noted that they played My

Kind of a weird crowd, which fortunately didn't detract from the performance too much. It might have even helped a little, given that Jeff seemed a bit more talky than at some other shows. (Though I myself could have done with less of the woman to my right shrieking repeatedly but none of it seemed to annoy Jeff greatly so maybe I'm just overreacting.) Jeff did seem to be in a more talkative mood than previous shows, joking about his "bass butt" and how, when playing guitar with a pick, he had to be careful because he had a tendency "to get down with my bad self." He also engaged in an exten

He played it at one of the Vic shows in recent years, I'm pretty sure, and occasionally elsewhere. But yeah, not terribly often.

In terms of banter and such, I enjoyed Jeff's occasional jabs at the awful clappers in the audience. Particularly during his solo set, there were a number of folks who just couldn't clap in time yet kept trying anyway... At one point Jeff joked about how people wouldn't sing along with the words he wanted them to (a reference to his request to sing along to a new song, Slow Love) nor could clap in time. "You're a rogue crowd," he quipped to the DC audience. "No wonder we can't get anything done." Haha.

Thanks for the info. And that's interesting about your wedding music...I guess it's a small world sometimes.

And again, for anyone interested, here was the Minus 5's opening set as played (it was pretty kickass in its own right, IMHO): Lies of the Living Dead The Old Plantation In The Ground It's Magenta, Man Twilight Distillery Kill The Dead With A Gun The Days of Wine and Booze My Generation Revolution Blues [Neil Young] Aw Shit Man> Strychnine [The Sonics]

Wow, all I can say is that was almost certainly the best TWEEDY show yet. Pretty special. And though there have only been five performances thus far, this one might be looked back on as a show where things really started to jell for this band. This was one of those shows that a simple glance at the setlist alone doesn't do it justice, though it was a nice surprise to hear one of the only (the only?) solo performances of Deeper Down. In general, the songs Jeff chose to play in his solo set tonight worked beautifully and had a lot of gravitas and impact. Via Chicago, with harmonica, was partic

They were selling the Diamond Light single last night in Baltimore, FYI, so presumably they've gotten some more to sell at shows.

No Buck last night. Joe Adragna from New Orleans was on drums, and I think a guy named Mike Giblin from Harrisburg, Pa., was on bass. Scott mentioned the guitarist, but I didn't catch his name.

You know, it didn't occur to me at the time but that could very well be. He's kind of changed his cult banter a bit every night, though. It's been blankets and ponchos and, last night, it was silver track suits...haha. I believe in Pittsburgh there was also mention of "a great pierogi cult."