Wilco Setlists: New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut, & Massachusetts

Wilco’s Cruel Country tour continues with dates in New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut, and Massachusetts. Here's what they played and a few of the cool poster prints that accompanied the shows:

Brewery Ommegang, Cooperstown, NY 8/21/22

 

“Handshake Drugs” / “I Am My Mother” / “Cruel Country” / “I Am Trying to Break Your Heart” / “Hints” / “War on War” / “If I Ever Was a Child” / “Via Chicago” (with “Many Worlds” coda) / “At Least That’s What You Said” / “Story to Tell” / “Hummingbird” / “Bird Without a Tail/Base of My Skull” / “Tired of Taking It Out on You” / “Jesus, Etc.” / “Impossible Germany” / “Love Is Everywhere (Beware)” / “California Stars” / “Love is Everywhere (Beware)” / “Box Full of Letters” / “Spiders (Kidsmoke)”

 

Encore: “Falling Apart (Right Now)” / “I Got You (At the End of the Century)”

 

Beak & Skiff Apple Orchard, LaFayette, NY 8/23/22

Official show poster by Rene Clairin.

“I Am My Mother” / “Cruel Country” / “I Am Trying to Break Your Heart” / “Hints” / “Handshake Drugs” / “Story to Tell” / “Either Way” / “War on War” / “If I Ever Was a Child” / “Via Chicago” (with “Many Worlds” coda) / “Hummingbird” / “At Least That’s What You Said” / “Bird Without a Tail/Base of My Skull” / “Jesus, Etc.” / “Impossible Germany” / “Hearts Hard to Find” / “Love is Everywhere (Beware)” / “California Stars” / “A Lifetime to Find” / “Heavy Metal Drummer” / “Spiders (Kidsmoke)” 

 

Encore: “Falling Apart (Right Now)” / “Box Full of Letters” / “The Late Greats” / “I Got You (At the End of the Century)”

 

The Green at Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, VT  8/24/22

Official show poster by The Housebear Design.

“Handshake Drugs” / “I Am My Mother” / “Cruel Country” / “I Am Trying to Break Your Heart” / “Hints” / “War on War”/ “If I Ever Was a Child”/ “Via Chicago” (with “Many Worlds” coda) / “At Least That’s What You Said” / “Story to Tell” / “Hummingbird” / “Bird Without a Tail/Base of My Skull” / “Tired of Taking It Out on You” /” Jesus, Etc.” / “Impossible Germany” / “Love is Everywhere (Beware)” / “California Stars” / “A Lifetime to Find” / “Heavy Metal Drummer” / “Box Full of Letters” / “Spiders (Kidsmoke)” 

 

Encore: “Falling Apart (Right Now)” / “I Got You (At the End of the Century)”

 

Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion at Meadowbrook, Gilford, NH 8/25/22

Official show poster by A Micah Smith.

“Handshake Drugs” / “I Am My Mother” / “Cruel Country” / “I Am Trying to Break Your Heart” / “Hints” / “War on War” / “If I Ever Was a Child” / “Via Chicago” (with “Many Worlds” coda)/ “At Least That’s What You Said” / “Story to Tell” / “Hummingbird” / “Bird Without a Tail/Base of My Skull” / “Hearts Hard to Find” / “Jesus, Etc.” / “Impossible Germany” / “Love is Everywhere (Beware)” / “California Stars” / “A Lifetime to Find” / “Box Full of Letters” / “Spiders (Kidsmoke)”

 

Encore: “Falling Apart (Right Now)” / “I Got You (At the End of the Century)”

 

Westville Music Bowl, New Haven, CT 8/27/22

Official show poster by Brian Methe.

“Handshake Drugs” / “I Am My Mother” / “Cruel Country” / “I Am Trying to Break Your Heart” / “Hints” / “War on War” / “If I Ever Was a Child” / “Via Chicago” (with “Many Worlds” coda) / “Story to Tell” / “Hummingbird” / “Bird Without a Tail/Base of My Skull” / “Hearts Hard to Find” / “Jesus, Etc.” / “Impossible Germany” / “Love is Everywhere (Beware)” / “California Stars” / “A Lifetime to Find” / “Box Full of Letters” / “Spiders (Kidsmoke)”

 

Encore: “Falling Apart (Right Now)” / “I Got You (At the End of the Century)” / “Kicking Television”

Veterans Memorial Park, Vineyard Haven, MA 8/28/22

 

“Handshake Drugs” / “I Am My Mother” / “Cruel Country” / “I Am Trying to Break Your Heart” / “Hints” / “War on War” / “If I Ever Was a Child” / “Via Chicago” (with “Many Worlds” coda) / “Story to Tell” / “Hummingbird” / “Bird Without a Tail/Base of My Skull” / “Jesus, Etc.” / “Impossible Germany” / “California Stars” / “Box Full of Letters” / “Falling Apart (Right Now)” / “Spiders (Kidsmoke)”

Wilco now takes a break, but the Cruel Country tour will return on September 9 (my Birthday!) when Jeff Tweedy and Company play at the Sylvee in Madison, Wisconsin.

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Wilco’s Cruel Country Tour Hits Michigan & Canada

We’re catching up with the set-lists from Wilco’s Cruel Country summer tour with their shows in Michigan, Toronto, and Montreal. The shows may be very similar in their song content, but there are some notable additions along the way like the tour debut of “Spiders (Kidsmoke)” in our first entry:

Interlochen Center for the Arts, Interlochen, MI 8/17/22

“Handshake Drugs” / “I Am My Mother” / “Cruel Country” / “I Am Trying to Break Your Heart” / “Hints” / “War on War” / “If I Ever Was a Child” / “Via Chicago” (with “Many Worlds” coda) / “At Least That's What You Said” / “Story to Tell” / “Hummingbird” / “Bird Without a Tail/Base of My Skull” / “Hearts Hard to Find” / “Jesus, Etc.” / “Impossible Germany” / “Love is Everywhere (Beware)” / “California Stars” * / “A Lifetime to Find” / “Box Full of Letters” / “Spiders (Kidsmoke)” 

Encore: “Falling Apart (Right Now)” / “Red-Eyed and Blue” / “I Got You (At the End of the Century)”

* w/Courtney Marie Andrews

Budweiser Stage, Toronto, ON, Canada 8/18/22

“Handshake Drugs” / “I Am My Mother” / “Cruel Country” / “I Am Trying to Break Your Heart” / “Hints” / “War on War” / “If I Ever Was a Child” / “Via Chicago” (with “Many Worlds” coda) / “At Least That’s What You Said” / “Story to Tell” / “Hummingbird” / “Bird Without a Tail/Base of My Skull” / “Hearts Hard to Find” / “Jesus, Etc.” / “Impossible Germany” / “Love Is Everywhere (Beware)” / “California Stars” / “A Lifetime to Find” / “Box Full of Letters” / “Spiders (Kidsmoke)”

Encore: “Falling Apart (Right Now)” / “Red-Eyed and Blue” / “I Got You (At the End of the Century)”

MTELUS, Montreal, QC, Canada 8/20/22

“Handshake Drugs” / “I Am My Mother” / “Cruel Country” / “I Am Trying to Break Your Heart” / “Hints” / “War on War” / “If I Ever Was a Child” / “Via Chicago” (with “Many Worlds” coda) / “At Least That’s What You Said” / “Story to Tell” / “Hummingbird” / “All Across the World” / “Bird Without a Tail/Base of My Skull” / “Country Song Upside-Down” / “Impossible Germany” / “Jesus, Etc.” / “Love Is Everywhere (Beware)” / “California Stars” / “A Lifetime to Find” / “Spiders (Kidsmoke)”

Encore: “Box Full of Letters” / “Falling Apart (Right Now)” / “I Got You (At the End of the Century)”

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Wilco Makes The Cover Of Uncut & A Tale Of Correspondence

The September issue of the great British magazine, Uncut, has Wilco on its cover for the first time, and I’m elated to have gotten my copy. It contains a sweet 13-page spread that covers both the 20th anniversary of the band’s breakthrough masterpiece, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, and their new brilliant release, Cruel Country, and a cool disc entitled Crosseyed Strangers, which boasts “an alternate” version of YHF, made out of live tracks, and alternate takes. The only issue I have with this, ahem, issue, is that the cover (pictured above), features a picture of Jeff Tweedy extracted from a photo shoot for Saturday Night Live in 2007 – that’s right, 15 years ago.

So I guess Uncut thought an older, grayer Tweedy wouldn’t sell as many magazines, but did they have to cropout the rest of Wilco? I always hated when a picture of one member of a band is supposed to symbolize the whole like it’s The Best of The Doors or something, but whatever. The important thing is that Wilco made the cover of one of my favorite magazines, which is something that I actually wrote them about in 2019:

Thing is, they cut out my letter’s mention of my book, Wilcopedia, which had just been published and I was hoping to get reviewed by Uncut. I was hoping to get a plug in the pages of the magazine, and I was disappointed that it was omitted – maybe because Uncut had their own guide to the band that they were working on at the time (it came out the next summer):

Sigh. Well, at least Mojo reviewed Wilcopedia.

 

This isn’t the first time I had correspondence with Uncut. 20 years ago, I wrote them about putting the Replacements, another band I love on the cover. In 2002, my second favorite album was Mono which was by Paul Westerberg underthe name Grandpaboy. Apparently I was under the delusion that this album was a secret Replacements reunion album as that was the rumor in early '02 and the tracks certainly had that sound and spirit, but it was later revealed that Westerberg played all the instruments himself. Before I knew that, I wrote them this letter which they printed in May 2002:

Oh well, still a great album, and the Mats (the Replacements nickname, for those not in the know) still deserved a cover – something that they still haven’t gotten! C’mon Uncut, how about an Ultimate Music Guide on the Mats? That’d be super.

 

Anyway, so far I haven’t been able to get Wilcopedia in the pages of Uncut so far, but maybe with the expanded second Edition has a chance? Maybe an updated version of their Ultimate Music Guide can have a books section with a mention? Maybe I can at least get Uncut to follow me on Twitter, and get a shout-out there? 

 

Double sigh. Like something I said in my letter from two decades ago above, I guess I'll just keep dreaming.

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Wilco Is Back In The U.S.A. & Here’s What They Played in The Last Several Days

Official show poster by The Housebear Design.

Wilco’s Cruel Country tour continues with the band back in the states having just played four shows in the Midwest over the last several days. So with no furher ado, here’s what Jeff Tweedy and company treated their audiences in Iowa, Nebraska, Indiana, and Kentucky from August 12-16:

 

Paramount Theatre, Cedar Rapids, Iowa 8/12/22

 

“I Am My Mother” /  “Cruel Country” / “I Am Trying to Break Your Heart” / “Hints” / “War On War” / “Handshake Drugs” / “If I Ever Was a Child” / “All Across the World” / “Via Chicago” / “Many Worlds” / “Everyone Hides” / “Story to Tell” / “Bird Without a Tail/Base of My Skull” / “Tired of Taking It Out On You” / “At Least That’s What You Said” / “Hearts Hard to Find” / “Impossible Germany” / “Mystery Binds” / “Jesus, Etc.” / “Heavy Metal Drummer” / “A Lifetime to Find” / “Box Full of Letters” / “The Late Greats”

Encore: “Falling Apart (Right Now)” / “Red-Eyed and Blue” / “I Got You (At the End of the Century)” / “Outtasite (Outta Mind)”

Outlandia Festival, Bellevue, Nebraska 8/13/22

 

“Handshake Drugs” / “Cruel Country” / “I Am Trying to Break Your Heart” / “Story to Tell” / “War on War” / “Bird Without a Tail/Base of My Skull” / “Hummingbird” / “All Across The World” / “At Least That's What You Said” / “California Stars” / “A Lifetime to Find” / “Impossible Germany” / “Jesus, Etc.” / “Heavy Metal Drummer” / “Box Full of Letters” / “Falling Apart (Right Now)” / “A Shot in the Arm” / “I Got You (At the End of the Century)”

 

TCU Amphitheater at White River State Park, Indianapolis, Indiana 8/14/22

Official show poster by Convent Designs.

“I Am My Mother” / “Cruel Country” / “I Am Trying to Break Your Heart” / “Hints” / “War on War” / “Handshake Drugs” / “If I Ever Was a Child” / “Via Chicago” / “Many Worlds” / “Story to Tell” / “At Least That’s What You Said” / “Hummingbird” / “Bird Without a Tail/Base of My Skull” / “Jesus, Etc.” / “Impossible Germany” / “Love Is Everywhere (Beware)” / “California Stars” / “A Lifetime to Find” / “Box Full of Letters” / “I’m Always in Love” / “The Late Greats”

Encore: “Falling Apart (Right Now)” / “I Got You (At the End of the Century)”

 

PromoWest Pavilion at OVATION, Newport, Kentucky 8/16/22

 

“Handshake Drugs” / “I Am My Mother” / “Cruel Country” / “I Am Trying to Break Your Heart” / “Hints” / “War on War” / “If I Ever Was A Child” / “Via Chicago” / “Many Worlds” / “At Least That’s What You Said” / “Story to Tell” / “Hummingbird” / “Bird Without a Tail/Base of My Skull” / “Tired of Taking It Out On You” / “Jesus, Etc.” / “Impossible Germany” / “Love is Everywhere (Beware)” / “California Stars” / “A Lifetime to Find” / “Box Full of Letters” / “Heavy Metal Drummer”

Encore: “Falling Apart (Right Now)” / “The Late Greats” / “I Got You (At the End of the Century)”

 

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