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19 February 2008

WXRT broadcasting tonight's Wilco show live - If there are any fans out there, this should be very cool.[More:]
The band has been playing a series of "residency" shows (this is the 4th of 5) which, in its entirety, has been promised to cover every song in the Wilco catalog.

While I've gone from extreme fan to perfectly ambivalent over the past decade, these shows have rekindled some interest. Hearing the old, never-realized stuff interpreted in the more contemporary Wilco soundscape has always been a pleasure - tightly crafted songs deconstructed and reformed while holding their core essence blah blah blah. I'm curious to hear what happens when oft-hokey tracks from AM are burned to cinders and what Glenn Kotche's percussion can summon from the murky beauty of Being There (please, let there be "Dreamer in my Dreams") or the Mermaid Ave collections could be a wonder to behold. I haven't been to a show since they bore a ghost, so this could even revive EP classics and the dark-edged locust-hums of Summerteeth.

Anyway... XRT streams. The show starts at 7:30pm central. So, don't let geography or the sell-out keep you from hearing what this go-around has in store.

(I'd gladly geek it up with any Wilco fans there might be round these parts, as well.)
I sent this to my fanatical-about-Wilco friend. Thanks!
posted by initapplette 19 February | 13:07
Oh, man, this is awesome. Too bad I've got meetings all night. BAH. Are there recordings being made of these shows?
posted by dismas 19 February | 13:23
I was at the gym last night and a live Wilco track popped up on my iPod from Kicking Television (for which I was in attendance), and it made me really sad to not be able to be at any of these shows.

Thanks for this, pokermonk! Does anyone know if they've already played Acuff Rose? Love that song live.
posted by viachicago 19 February | 14:02
Here are two of the three setlists thus far. (Not sure where the third is.)

02/15 - This one doesn't look too fancy.
02/16 - And my heart is broken to see Andrew Bird played half-a-dozen songs including "Dreamer in My Dreams" with them. Hopefully, a live recording of this one gets out there.

And Greg Kot is apparently doing a song-by-song review on his blog.

(Looks like no Acuff Rose.)
posted by pokermonk 19 February | 15:38
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