Wilco
June 11, 2004
What Stage, Bonnaroo Music Festival
Manchester, Tennessee

AUD DAT Master - B&K 4022 (XY)-> Sonosax SX-M2-> Apogee MiniMe (DFC FOB)
Recorded By: Craig Davis
Sony R500-> Delta Dio 24/96 via coax-> Vegas 4.0, Resampled (48-> 44.1) and fades added in Soundforge 7.0-> CDWave for track splits-> FLAC frontend
Transferred By: Jim Pollock


01 The Late Greats
02 I Am Trying To Break Your Heart
03 Hummingbird
04 At Least That's What You Said
05 Jesus, Etc.
06 War On War
07 A Shot In The Arm
08 Muzzle Of Bees
09 Company In My Back
10 I'm The Man Who Loves You
11 Theologians
12 Poor Places
13 I'm Always In Love
14 One By One
15 I'm A Wheel
16 Handshake Drugs
17 Spiders (Kidsmoke)

79:55


I've found out that there are many Wilco shows up to ~2005 that have probably never been torrented (at least not since ~2005)
but have only been traded, presumably in the last years of traditional trading. db.etree currently lists ~130 such Wilco/Tweedy shows !!

Somehow, these shows were forgotten in the first waves of torrenting - or deemed not worthy of digital distribution
... or simply those traders in possesion never made the step to torrenting and then stopped trading altogether, like most everybody did.
I've searched high and low, checked countless old lists and sent a lot of asking mails to ancient email addresses.
About half of them bounced, another quarter didn't reply - and the ones that did hadn't traded (or stopped collecting) in a long time.
But then I found some nice persons who were willing to share shows with me.

Arrangements were made and in 2018/19 I was able to share close to 30 Wilco and Jeff Tweedy shows with you.
As a result, a couple more Wilco collectors got in touch and provided me with some more shows that I'll be able to share with you,
some have never circulated, others have not been torrented for a long, long while.
I still have not listened to them all, most need some work, it'll take some time, please be patient.
Now, by August 2023, all in all almost 50 shows have been unearthed - and there are still about 15 shows you may look forward to !

If anybody knows of or has a connection to 'old-time' Wilco traders or even tapers, please ask them to get in touch,
there are still a couple dozen shows out there that are known to have been recorded and traded in the pre-torrent era.

notes to the 2023 edition:
June 11, 2004, What Stage, Bonnaroo Music Festival, Manchester, TN
Some microphone noise, other than that a solid recording of a typical festival set of the then-brandnew line-up ... that is still going strong 19 years later !
Received this as a flawless set of FLAC files. Nothing had to be done here except re-naming the tracks.
Many thanks to Neil !

[2023-02-26]


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