Chit-Chat Check-In #64: Allergy Season
Now with more self-promotion!
Back in Chicago after traipsing around a bit and finishing up the final manuscript of my next book. Bumped into Joan Baez while I was in Austin recently doing a bit of promo for a project I don’t think I’ve ever mentioned here on the stack-o-sub. Including a track from that chunk of output, a freebie in front of the paywall.
“Guaranteed” (from Please Tell My Brothers on Audible)
This Week In Wilco, Etc.
1995 / June 9: On Late Night with Conan O’Brien (Season 2, Episode 175) Wilco makes their television debut and plays “Box Full of Letters.”
2014 / June 10: Tweedy performs a 27-song set at the Lincoln Theatre in Washington, DC. The set is later officially issued as Roadcase #34.
2021 / June 10: On The Tweedy Show #183, Jeff debuts a song titled “Pittsburgh.”
I will never forget leaving work early to watch the Staple Singers at the shed in Tinley Park. There were not many fans and all the bands… including a young Wilco crew… on the bill came out and sat around me. Ms. Baez was dancing in the aisle and a kid usher kept asking her to sit down… she said something to the effect of … you obviously don’t know who the f*** I am… she wasn’t jerky about it either. What a cool day for this lowly music fan.
I know that bridge in the photo! Grew up close to it and hiked and biked it many times. Never saw any Joan Baezes or Jeff Tweedys on it thought. Shucks.