This last
weekend, I travelled to Greensboro, N.C., to appear at Scuppernong Books for an
event celebrating my book Wilcopedia: A Comprehensive Guide to the Music of
America’s Best Band. Also taking apart was local musician Lee Waters, and the
band, Outta Sight Outta Mind, who each performed covers of Wilco songs.
After I read
from the introduction of Wilcopedia, Wallace played solo acoustic covers of “Passenger
Side” (incidentally the first Wilco song that was ever performed live), and “Remember
the Mountain Bed.”
I got video of
Wallace playing the second song, the Mermaid Avenue Vol. II track that was
lyrically written by legendary troubadour Woody Guthrie, with music by Jeff Tweedy
and Jay Bennett. Sadly it’s an incomplete recording as my phone was dying, but it’s
still a worthwhile watch as it captures the bulk of the song:
Following a
brief Q & A, the band Outta Sight (named for the event and unlikely to be
used again). I would’ve gotten video of them, but as per the reason above for
truncated video, I was only able to get a few pictures. The best of which is
below:
There goes
another splendid Wilcopedia event, likely the last one of the year. I was happy
to get a good turnout at Scuppernong who I’d like to think for attending. Here’s
a pic of some of them:
I want to hugely
thank those folks for coming out, as well as the good folks at Scuppernong (Brian
Lampkin and Steve Mitchell), and, of course, Lee Wallace, and the musicians of
Outta Sight Outta Mind (front man/rhythm guitarist Chris Rachal, lead guitarist Ken Brown, bassist Matt Ralston, and drummer Nick Vogel).
Okay, so that’s
a taste of the Wilcopedia shindig at the super cool Scuppernong Books last Saturday. Stay tuned, and I’ll keep you
informed about other activity surrounding my book in the weeks to come.
More later…
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