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Wilco, Live In Concert: Sasquatch 2011

By Stephen Thompson
Published May 31, 2011 at 9:57 AM EDT
James Bailey for KEXP

Wilco never makes the same record twice, which makes it doubly remarkable that so many of them are tremendous. As formidable as frontman Jeff Tweedy's catalog is, the sonically inventive rock band really stands out on stage — the place where extreme technical skill meets the chemistry and rousing showmanship of passionate rock veterans. Of course, it helps that the group has the luxury of drawing highlights from seven very different records when it performs. To see Wilco on stage is to hear the best of the best.

Recorded live at The Gorge on Monday, May 30, Wilco performs a two-hour, festival-closing set as part of the 2011 Sasquatch Music Festival outside Seattle, Wash.

Set List

  • Ashes of American Flags

  • Bull Black Nova

  • Company in my Back

  • I Am Trying To Break Your Heart

  • Kamera

  • Handshake Drugs

  • One Wing

  • Shot in the Arm

  • I'll Fight

  • War on War

  • Via Chicago

  • Impossible Germany

  • Jesus, Etc.

  • Airline to Heaven

  • Theologians

  • Walken

  • I'm the Man Who Loves You

  • Misunderstood

  • Spiders (Kidsmoke)

  • Hate it Here

  • The Late Greats

  • Heavy Metal Drummer

  • Hoodoo Voodoo

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    Stephen Thompson
    Stephen Thompson is a writer, editor and reviewer for NPR Music, where he speaks into any microphone that will have him and appears as a frequent panelist on All Songs Considered. Since 2010, Thompson has been a fixture on the NPR roundtable podcast Pop Culture Happy Hour, which he created and developed with NPR correspondent Linda Holmes. In 2008, he and Bob Boilen created the NPR Music video series Tiny Desk Concerts, in which musicians perform at Boilen's desk. (To be more specific, Thompson had the idea, which took seconds, while Boilen created the series, which took years. Thompson will insist upon equal billing until the day he dies.)
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