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Now here’s a media darling I can get behind. ASC has a live Wilco show available this week. The band sounds relaxed but polished as they cruise through songs from their last two albums, A Ghost is Born and Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. Oldies “Misunderstood” and “California Stars,” from the Billy Bragg Mermaid Avenue collaboration, kick off the second set. Frontman Jeff Tweedy is in good spirits throughout as he heaps praise on a “dapper” Nels Cline decked out in a green leisure suit whose playing is as sharp as his look, and later waxes poetic about the state of the Union and a hippie Jesus. They close the show with Blue Oyster Cult classic “Don’t Fear the Reaper” and a political “Comment” by Charles Wright.
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