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Some cool pictures -- especially a good one of Jody Stephens -- though I don't think I see any Wilco members in them. But anyway...it looks like it was a cool venue. I didn't realize that Primavera happened at both outdoor and indoor venues.

From another YouTube video, here's the list of everyone on stage for TYF: Jody Stephens, Chris Stamey, Ken Stringfellow, Jon Auer, Charles Cleaver, Mitch Easter, Mike Mills, Norman Blake, Django Haskins, Jeff Tweedy, Pat Sansone, John Stirratt, Glenn Kotche, Alexis Taylor, Skylar Gudasz, Sharon Van Etten, Brett Harris, Ira Kaplan and Georgia Hubley.

Always great to hear Thank You Friends! I recognize most, but not all, of the people who take a turn on vocals. Jeff, John and Pat, obviously, as well as Ken Stringfellow and Jon Auer of the Posies/Big Star. Then there's Norman Blake of Teenage Fanclub and Ira Kaplan and Georgia Hubley of Yo La Tengo and Sharon Van Etten (I think). Who else?

Coincidentally, Mr. Richman is playing a free show here in Chicago tomorrow night! I doubt he'll be sporting that jumper, however. Unfortunately.

Seems like this has been a particularly active trip to Barcelona for the band, between their own set at Primavera and yesterday's in-store set. And here's video of Jeff's guest vocals on "Blue Moon" from the Big Star Third performance:

Interesting article by Mr. Prophet in the Independent (UK), naming the members of his "fantasy band." His comment on Jerry Garcia is pretty funny... http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/my-fantasy-band-chuck-prophet-7545926.html

Very cool that Chuck drew a good-sized crowd! It's always kind of mind-boggling to me that guys like him and Steve Wynn—and countless others I can't think of right now—aren't better known and don't get more publicity and/or better bookings. Not saying anything about Cafe Nine, which I haven't been to, but whenever Chuck is in the Chicago area, for instance, it seems like he always plays FitzGerald's or SPACE, which technically aren't even in the city. Why isn't he playing at Schuba's or Lincoln Hall or Old Town or Park West, I wonder? Maybe it's his choice, I don't know, but it seems to me a r

According to Wilcoworld, the Jackson poster was designed by Justin Shultz. If you Google that name (and poster), you come up with a site for a Justin Shultz Design. I have no idea if it's the same guy, but I suppose you could try contacting him via the info on that site and maybe you'll be able to track that poster down. Otherwise, I guess check eBay? Good luck!

If I'm not mistaken, it was 9/19/06 at the Vic in Chicago. I wasn't there, unfortunately, but I know it was the last date of a brief tour supporting the "Another Fine Day" record. I saw the New York show on that run, but I think Jeff only sat in for the Chicago date. Here's the VC thread about that show.

A beautiful evening on the banks of the Mississippi to close out this brief run of shows. After what I thought was a relatively subdued start, the band really picked it up toward the end of the main set and finished with a very fun second encore, complete with guest appearances... Here was the complete setlist, as played: Via Chicago> Art Of Almost I Might War On War She's A Jar Handshake Drugs Spiders (Kidsmoke) (acoustic arrangement) Impossible Germany Born Alone Laminated Cat (a/k/a Not For The Season) (electric arrangement) Standing O Jesus, etc. Whole Love Too Far Apart I'm Alway

Some more comments when I get a chance, but definitely some nice changeups in the set tonight as compared with the rest of the tour so far. I mean, Laminated Cat/Not For The Season and acoustic Spiders is always great for me personally, but it's nice to get some relative curveballs every once in a while and they definitely came tonight, starting with a very early A Shot in the Arm. More to come, but for now, the complete setlist as played: One Sunday Morning> Poor Places> Art Of Almost I Might A Shot in the Arm Side With The Seeds Country Disappeared War On War Impossible Germany Bor

I can confirm the above setlist, though the quotations interspersed makes it a little tough to follow, IMHO. But at least it's accurate, as far as the songs played and the order. They audibled out of I Must Be High at the start of the first encore, and added Walken. Those were the only differences from the printed list...

Oh, it's the real thing.

Apparently this was the first time Wilco has played in Jackson, which I guess is mildly surprising in that they've probably played just about every other city of that size in the South at least once by now. That, and the fact that one of the band members—Mr. Sansone—is from just down the road (and proudly displayed that by sporting a t-shirt from the Music Emporium, a longtime record store in Meridian, Miss., that closed in 2010 ). The fact that the venue was a seated civic auditorium-type of place with a covered orchestra pit that separated band from audience by at least 20 feet didn't nec

Yeah, it was definitely Laminated Cat (and not Not For The Season)! But anyway, it was particularly good last night, I thought. It seems to be getting better and better as they play it more, so hopefully it continues to be a mainstay on setlists for a while. After that song last night, Jeff did his usual mid-set check-in with the crowd to ask whether they were still having a good time. "Good," he said, "because I bet a lot of people didn't have a good time here." The unique setting gave Jeff some other fodder throughout the show. Anyone who's seen a concert at Sloss knows that a train ofte

Well, that was something. You can tell how much the band enjoys playing at this unique venue, and it showed in their 2-hour, 21-minute performance tonight. It started off pretty intense, from my vantage point, and then got progressively goofier as the show went on, culminating in Kingpin (which, c'mon, might be one of the silliest songs ever as it is...and that's before the various shenanigans that often go on when it's played) before coming to a great, rocking conclusion. I'm sure plenty of folks — myself included — will be able to add more details so for now, let me just post the complete

Yeah, exactly. You don't want to give it, but then someone asks and so you're almost obliged. I will not be giving any Wilco H&P reports, rest assured...

Nice Facebook detective work!

Yep, that's the one. Where's that from?

Yeah, I saw that. It's a relatively new relationship, I think.

Re: the new guitars, the company is called Fano (not Faro...my mistake, which I've corrected above). Their Web site is www.fanoguitars.com, for all the guitar geeks out there. I'm almost certain Jeff uses a JM6 model on the song Whole Love, exactly like the one pictured on the Fano site. I think the new black one might be a PX6. That shape looks like the one Jeff brought out last night. (Edit: Upon further review, the guitar that Jeff uses on Whole Love is an actual Fender Jaguar. It does look almost exactly like the JM6 on the Fano site, though.) And I just remembered that I heard from so

To answer at least a couple of questions, Jeff was clean shaven tonight--I trust that will change as the tour wears on--and he wore his glasses throughout the show. Mike still appears to have his 'stache, but I couldn't see Glenn well enough to see if he had any growth. Everyone else looks the same. As for the lighting design, they didn't have the full-length "little ghosts," probably because the stage wasn't tall enough. They had the little stands with the ghosts on at least one side of the stage, but I wasn't sure what function they really served. One difference, and again I'm not sure i

First off, special to H. Stone: The rainbow SG is back! Indeed it reappeared for I'm The Man Who Loves You to close out the first encore (and might've also been used on Hoodoo Voodoo if they had played it to close the show as planned on the printed setlist). Instead, we were sent off into the muggy Arkansas night with "just" Red-Eyed>I Got You>Outtasite--and it was that closing trio on which Jeff and Nels debuted new guitars that I don't think have been used live with Wilco before. I know Jeff's was a black electric Fano (a new company he's been working with that I believe builds cus

They did "Only A Rose" tonight in Dallas as well, with just Nick and Geraint, as the first song of the encore. They hadn't done it either of the previous two nights, but perhaps because it was the last night of the tour, they added it. And I'm so glad they did. Saw Geraint open for Nick a couple of years back at the Bell House in Brooklyn and he was sublime that evening as well. Have to make a mental note to pick up one of his records. Perhaps a Welsh duet one day, eh Andrew? Really, Nick's whole band is great. Love hearing Johnny Scott's elegant playing on guitar and seeing Bobby Irwin an

Meant to add that I read somewhere that Nick's longtime keyboard player, Geraint Watkins (who is great), has been called the Welsh Jerry Lee Lewis. Funny, though, I thought that moniker already belonged to a denizen of these parts...ahem Mr. Dowdall.