Wilco is fantastic. You're only now getting around to them, you mean to say?

Yeah I am way behind the curve on a few things including music. Better late than
never I guess, right? I was kind of stuck in a time warp there for a while. The good thing about
ignoring current music for 10 years or so is that it is all new now for me.

Yo, T-Bone, how's Wilco?

I finally got my head out of my ass and have the following now...

Summerteeth
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
A Ghost Is Born
Kicking TV
Sky Blue Sky
Wilco
The Whole Love

Favorites are likely Sky Blue Sky, Summerteeth and Wilco but it is all good. My musical tastes have kind of
been all over the board since I posted that. I have found a lot of stuff to like. Glad I finally came back to music.

I agree that there's a lot of self-indulgence to Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and A Ghost Is Born, but that doesn't necessarily make them bad. The former is one of my favorite albums ever.

However, Sky Blue Sky is much closer to The Whole Love and Summerteeth than it is to those two. The worst you can saythere is that Nels Cline gets a long guitar solo on "Impossible Germany," but he does great things with it, so who can complain? Also, Wilco (The Album) nominally happened, which is too meandering and half-assed to be self-indulgent.

I do like The Whole Love very much!

"Bull Black Nova" does the motorik tribute better than "Spiders/Kidsmoke," and there are about three songs that feel like they grew out of "On and On and On," which is a good thing (those would be "Deeper Down," "One Wing," and most obviously "I'll Fight"), but the rest of it leaves me feeling empty Even the Feist duet doesn't do anything for me, and I love Feist!

Flew out to New York at the end of the year to catch My Morning Jacket play three shows at Capitol Theatre in Port Chester. My Morning Jacket does this cool thing called Spontaneous Curation, where they won't repeat songs during events like this, so no song was played twice over the course of the three shows- we were treated to roughly seventy songs over the course of these three nights.

12/27
Heartbreakin Man
X-Mas Curtain
Outta My System
Evelyn Is Not Real
Octoplasm
The Way That He Sings
Off The Record
Steam Engine
Sooner
Thank You Too!
You Wanna Freak Out
Nashville to Kentucky
Strangulation!
Smokin From Shootin
Tyrone (Erykah Badu cover)
It's About Twilight Now
Mahgeetah

Encore:
Butch Cassidy
Bermuda Highway
Welcome Home
The Day Is Coming
Cobra
Gideon

12/28
Wonderful (The Way I Feel)
Golden
Tonite I Want To Celebrate With You
The Dark
It Beats For You
First Light
The Bear
Rocket Man (Elton John cover)
Lowdown
I'm Amazed
Old September Blues
Carried Away (Carl Broemel song)
It Makes No Difference (The Band cover)
Dondante
Librarian
I Think I'm Going to Hell
Phone Went West

Encore:
At Dawn
Highly Suspicious
Dancefloors
Holdin On To Black Metal
Touch Me I'm Going To Scream Pt. 2

12/29
Circuital
Evil Urges
Lay Low
Anytime
War Begun
I Will Sing You Songs
Honest Man
Aluminum Park
Slow Slow Tune
Where to Begin
I Will Be There When You Die
Master Plan
O Is the One That Is Real
What A Wonderful Man
Easy Morning
Run Thru
Movin Away

Encore:
I Will Be There When You Die
Victory Dance
Touch Me I'm Going To Scream Pt. 1
Wordless Chorus
All Night Long (Lionel Richie cover)
One Big Holiday

Too many highlights to choose from- they're such a great band to see live. I think it might have been the 25 minute long version of Dodante during the second show if I had to choose. They have a knack for stretching songs out live- something I'm usually not a fan of- but it works nicely for them. Coming into 2012 I had no idea about this band. I had heard of them, but not their material. I went to go see them at Pritzker Pavilion back in August, so I made an attempt to familiarize myself with their material leading up to that show. I was surprised, because it was nothing like what I was expecting it to be. I would say they're among my favorites at this point. If you haven't given them a listen yet, I suggest The Tennessee Fire, At Dawn, and It Still Moves as starting points. I don't think there is one filler song between those three albums.
Lowlight of the three nights was the Lionel Richie cover towards the end of night three- it's a fucking terrible song and Lionel Richie is a terrible person. I left my seat to position myself closer to an exit for the finale as this was going on.

Lastly, Capitol Theatre was a really cool venue. Awesomely enough, we were told that the barcodes on the ticket can be redeemed for soundboard recording of all three shows.

Lay Low - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVwcy_B--kU
War Begun/I Will Sing You Songs - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6x0lWMsI9I

If you're a fan of alt-country, check out the Avett Bros.

I agree that there's a lot of self-indulgence to Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and A Ghost Is Born, but that doesn't necessarily make them bad. The former is one of my favorite albums ever.

However, Sky Blue Sky is much closer to The Whole Love and Summerteeth than it is to those two. The worst you can saythere is that Nels Cline gets a long guitar solo on "Impossible Germany," but he does great things with it, so who can complain? Also, Wilco (The Album) nominally happened, which is too meandering and half-assed to be self-indulgent.

I do like The Whole Love very much!

If you're gay homosexual and a fan of alt-country, check out the Avett Bros.

I like my rock and roll to connect in a very emotional or visceral way. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is far more complicated than A.M., but I would argue that it isn't better. Tweedy's gift is his voice and his ability to use it to connect to an audience on an emotional level. For my money, a lot of the gimmickry from the Cline/Kotche era gets in the way of accomplishing that.

There are many bands that play different set lists each night. Phish just played four nights at MSG, and didn't play the same song twice.

I don't think Sky Blue Sky was gimmicky at all. In fact, that's what pissed off the Pitchfork people and made them call it "dad rock." No Jay Bennett twaddle, just guys playing. I mean yeah, Cline could get showy on guitar, but I'll put "On and On and On" or "Hate It Here" up there in terms of raw emotion, in their own way.

One song stretched over four nights isn't quite the same.