Chit-Chat Check-In #69: Birthday Boy

Birthday Shroud

Hello from Turin, or Torino, Italy, where it’s my birthday and I expect to be getting a shroud for a gift at any moment. Thanks to everyone for being so patient with me over the last few weeks, and I hope you enjoyed the guest posts, especially Scott McCaughey’s. I’ll post a song for you very soon, but until then, thank you in advance for all the birthday wishes.

Audio Transcript

Wearing birthday gifts and trying to learn trumpet by reading the instructions on the box the way all the greats learned their instruments. (Circa ’73.) Courtesy of Debbie Voll.

Picture of the Telenovela on my TV in Spain. I THINK that’s the result of some reconstructive surgery.

Missed my Mrs’s Berfday. You might think that glow is from the candles but I swear that’s the way she always looks to me. OxO—Jeffy

This Week In Wilco, Etc.

1997 / August 21: Wilco opens for Sheryl Crow at Blossom Music Center in Cuyahoga Falls, OH.

2010 / August 21: Jeff is on the bill at the Philadelphia Folk Festival. Also appearing over the course of the festival are Bonnie Prince Billy, Richard Thompson, the Subdudes, Chris Smither, and Taj Mahal.

1967 / August 25: Happy Birthday, Captain!