Wilco - PBS Soundstage, Chicago 2003 | Albums That Should Exist

 Wilco - PBS Soundstage, WTTW Studios, Chicago, IL, 5-7-2003

Paul says: Here's another episode of the great "PBS Soundstage" TV show. This one features the band Wilco in 2003.

Wilco has been a very critically acclaimed band. They've been led by Jeff Tweedy, who has also done a lot as a solo artist. Their 2001 album "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" is their most acclaimed, for instance making Rolling Stone Magazine's list of the top 500 albums of all time. It also was their best selling, selling over half a million copies in the U.S. and almost making it to the Top Ten in the U.S. album charts. This concert took place when they were still promoting that album, since they wouldn't release their next album until 2004.

There's a long and interesting story about how their record company refused to release that album and then cancelled their record contract. In fact, an  documentary has been made about it. 

The music here is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. 

This album is 43 minutes long. Note that this is suspiciously short, since the show was an hour long without commercials, and most other episodes are about 58 minutes long. I don't know if there are some missing Wilco songs, or if the band shared the show with another musical act that didn't make it to the video I found, or if there's some other reason for this length. According to the setlist.fm set list, the band did perform a few more songs, but I don't know if those were televised or not.

01 Handshake Drugs 
02 Sunken Treasure 
03 I Am Trying to Break Your Heart 
04 War on War
05 talk 
06 When the Roses Bloom Again
07 Poor Places 
08 Red-Eyed and Blue 
09 I Got You [At the End of the Century] 
10 talk 
11 Kicking Television 

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