Light Gets In

+ My favorite Summerteeth song… not

Hello from the road, everybody. Wilco is on tour with Waxahatchee. We played our first show together last night. It was lovely. The people in Tallahassee were really sweet. A Saturday night crowd could go one of two ways. They went the way that makes it possible to have a great show.

While we were getting prepared to leave home, Starship Casual officer and moonlighting video editor Crystal made a recap of my annual benefit shows from the Vic Theatre last week. Crystal says that she was so “enraptured” by the shows that she didn’t record as much footage as she usually does, leading to a video that’s below her usual standards. To which I say, maybe that makes it like the shows themselves in that it allows some cracks to show. You know… So the light gets in, and whatnot.

OxO—Jeffy

This Week in Wilco, Etc.

2002 / April 23: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot by Wilco is released by Nonesuch Records.

1991 / April 24: Uncle Tupelo opens for Billy Bragg at Graham Chapel at Washington University in St. Louis, MO.

1997 / April 24: Wilco appears with Roger McGuinn at Sony Studios in New York City for VH1’s Hard Rock Live. Wilco plays a short set and then are joined by Roger for three Byrds songs, “Mr. Spaceman,” “Eight Miles High,” and “So You Want to Be a Rock ‘N’ Roll Star.”