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Everyone's favorite deconstructionist art rock alt country singer songwriter Jeff Tweedy came to town last night for a sold out solo acoustic gig down at First Avenue. Hells yeah you know I'd be there for that. The show ended up being just shy of 2 hours and from the 'Sunken Treasure' opener to the 'Spiders' encore basically everything was working for me. He even brought his kid up on stage to play drums for one song. It was like a family campfire sing-a-long or something. Perfect for a Sunday night.

I'll admit I was expecting a couple of surprise local guests, but other than a nice 'Pecan Pie' duet with Kraig Johnson it wasn't meant to be. Ah, well, maybe next time.

Wilco drummer Glenn Kotche was the opener. He did maybe 30 minutes of vocal-less spaced out polyrhythmic percussion. I thought it was mint. A lot of people talked through his set, though, so maybe I was wrong and it actually sucked.

Jeff Tweedy – 11/6/2005 [wilcobase]