Wilco’s mini-tour for the 20th Anniversary of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, which consisted of five nights at United Palace Theatre in New York (April 15-20), and three nights at Auditorium Theatre in Chicago (April 22-24), wrapped up last Saturday evening with a magnificent performance of the album that was broadcast via nugs.net. While envious of the fans who witnessed the event in person, I was delighted to view it from my couch (and exercise bike), and bathe in the vivid recreation of the original record’s sonic landscape, and yet again absorb the beauty of one of Wilco’s best batches of songs.
Of course, everyone reading this knows the track-listing of YHF, but for completeness sake in reporting the setlists for the last five shows (I covered the first three here), here are the 11 songs that began each show:
“I Am Trying to Break Your Heart” / “Kamera” / “Radiom Cure” / “War on War” / “Jesus, Etc.” / “Ashes of American Flags” / “Heavy Metal Drummer” / “I’m the Man Who Loves You” / “Pot Kettle Black” / “Poor Places” / “Reservations”
Following that, here’s the encores for each night:
Union Palace Theatre, NYC 4/19:
“Be Not So Fearful” (Bill Fay cover) / “Pieholden Suite” / “Cars Can’t Escape” / “A Magazine Called Sunset” / “Hummingbird” / “The Good Part” / “I Got You (At the End of the Century)” / “Outtasite (Outta Mind)”
Union Palace Theatre, NYC 4/20:
“Be Not So Fearful” / “Pieholden Suite” / “Cars Can’t Escape” / “A Magazine Called Sunset” / “Hummingbird” / “The Good Part” / “Monday” / “Outtasite (Outta Mind)”
Auditorium Theatre, Chicago 4/22:
“Be Not So Fearful” / “Pieholden Suite” / “Cars Can’t Escape” / “A Magazine Called Sunset” / “Hummingbird” / “The Good Part” / “Monday” / “Outtasite (Outta Mind)”
Auditorium Theatre, Chicago 4/23:
“Be Not So Fearful” / “Pieholden Suite” / “Cars Can’t Escape” / “A Magazine Called Sunset” / “Hummingbird” / “The Good Part” / “I Got You (At the End of the Century)” / “Outtasite (Outta Mind)”
Auditorium Theatre, Chicago 4/24:
“Be Not So Fearful” / “Pieholden Suite” / “Cars Can’t Escape” / “A Magazine Called Sunset” / “Hummingbird” / “The Good Part” / “Monday” / “Outtasite (Outta Mind)”
Yes, these encores are very similar with only slight variations, but I’m recounting them here for, you know, completeness sake.
Now Wilco returns to The Loft for more work on their twelve studio album (subscribe to Tweedy’s Starship Casual on Substack.com for some exclusive listens of works-in-progress), for the next month; then they will return on May 27 for the seventh Solid Sound Festival at MASS MoCa in North Adams, MA. Tickets for the three day event are available at wilcoworld.net.
That’s all for now. If you haven’t already, check out Wilcopedia (The Blog)’s post about the new Jay Bennett documentary directed by Gorman Bechard, and Fred Uhter.
More later…
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