Wilco setlists: NYC 10/12 & 10/13

Wilco’s Ode to Joy tour hit New York City over the weekend. After playing a reportedly stellar show at the historic Radio City Music Hall, the band was able to share their performance the next night at Brooklyn Steel via a live stream that fans could access via YouTube, Facebook and nugs.tv.

I watched and highly enjoyed the show, and made note of a few comments by Front man Jeff Tweedy which I included below.

Radio City Music Hall, NYC 10/12/19

“Bright Leaves” / “Before Us” / “I am Trying to Break Your Heart” / “War on War” / “One and a Half Stars” / “If I Ever Was a Child” / “Handshake Drugs” / “At Least That’s What You Said” / “Hummingbird” / “White Wooden Cross” / “Via Chicago” / “How to Fight Loneliness” / “Bull Black Nova” / “Random Name Generator” / “Reservations” / “We Were Lucky” / “Love is Everywhere (Beware)” / “Impossible Germany” / “Box Full of Letters” / “Everyone Hides” / “Jesus, Etc.” / “Theologians”/ “I’m the Man Who Loves You” / “Hold Me Anyway” / “Misunderstood”

Encore:

“California Stars” / “The Late Greats”

Brooklyn Steel, Brooklyn, NY 10/13/19

“Bright Leaves” / “Before Us” / “Company in My Back” / “War on War” / “One and a Half Stars” / “Handshake Drugs” / “You and I” / “Hummingbird”

“That’s very nice singing, thank you very much. Made last night’s audience look like a bunch of stiffs.”

“Someone to Lose”

“This is a song…I’ll just leave it there.”

“White Wooden Cross” / “Via Chicago” / “Laminated Cat (Not For the Season)” / “Random Name Generator” / “On and On and On” / “We Were Lucky” / “Love is Everywhere (Beware)”

“The nice thing about putting a new record out, is that people say nice things about your old records. Schmilco’s not so bad is it?”

“Impossible Germany”

(Torwards lead guitarist Nels Cline after the song's epic conclusion): “My hat is off.”

“Box Full of Letters”/ “Everyone Hides” / “I’m Always in Love” / “Heavy Metal Drummer” / “I’m the Man Who Loves You” / “Hold Me Anyway” / “Misunderstood”

Encore:

“This is a song, that’s on our record Ode to Joy - it’s a song about when you dream about things that really happened. I dreamt one time about cocaine on a copying machine, and I realized that I used to work at a liquor store and when things would get really busy the owner would put cocaine on the copying machine for the stock boys. And then it got mixed up with things that weren’t real in my dreams, but I woke up wanting cocaine, and I didn’t have any. And that’s the best part of the story I suppose.”

“An Empty Corner”

“Red-Eyed and Blue” / “I Got You (At the End 0f the Century” / “Outtasite (Outta Mind)” / “I’m a Wheel”

The show is available to watch on YouTube for the time being.

Daniel Cook Johnson's Wilcopedia: A Comprehensive Guide to the Music of America’s Best Band is available for order here.

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