Rita Houston, the passionate program director at indie icon and roots radio stalwart WFUV in New York, talks about Wilco’s Solid Sound festival like it’s nirvana. (Not the band, the state of mind.) Houston raves about Solid State’s unique charm among festivals: how Jeff Tweedy and Wilco are known to just traipse around the grounds at Mass MOCA, serenading lucky attendees. The serenade was extended this year to include everyone, as the band indulged the crowd with a set tailor-made for the nature-rich setting: an all-natural 26 song acoustic set.
Yup, Solid Sound but not solid guitars. The hollow kind instead. You can download it here. Here’s what was strummed, according to Stereogum:
01 “Misunderstood”
02 “War On War”
03 I’m Always In Love”
04 “Company In My Back”
05 “Hummingbird”
06 “Bull Black Nova”
07 “Handshake Drugs”
08 “Hesitating Beauty”
09 “She’s A Jar”
10 “One Wing”
11 “Kamera”
12 “New Madrid”
13 “Forget The Flowers”
14 “It’s Just That Simple”
15 “Airline To Heaven”
16 “Dawned On Me”
17 “I Got You”
18 “Passenger Side”
19 “Outta Mind (Outta Site)”
20 [Happy birthday To Mikael Jorgensen]
21 “Whole Love”
22 “Jesus Etc”
23 “Walken”
24 “The Thanks I Get”
25 “Theologians”
26 “Shot In The Arm”
If you want to go back a little furhter, you can hear (and watch) a more rollicking Wilco in the film Every Other Summer — it’s on Vimeo.
