.Wilco is coming to Alabama in April for shows in Birmingham and Huntsville. The A’s — a new band formed by Sylvan Esso’s Amelia Meath and Daughter of Swords’ Alexandra Sauser-Monnig — will open the shows.
Various pre-sales for both shows run from Wednesday morning through Friday morning, according to Ticketmaster. Promoter Red Mountain Entertainment, which is part of Live Nation. announced the Alabama shows on Tuesday.
Wilco, led by singer-guitarist Jeff Tweedy, plans a spring tour in March and April that includes three-night residencies in its hometown of Chicago, March 23-26; Port Chester, New York, March 30-April 1; and Reykjavík, Iceland, April 6-8. After that, the band moves on to shows in the Southeast, in cities such as Charleston, South Carolina ; Athens, Georgia ; Nashville ; Knoxville, Tennessee ; and Greensboro, North Carolina .
Wilco has a dozen studio albums to its credit, 1995-present, but is probably best known for 2001-2002′s “Yankee Hotel Foxtrot,” an experimental rock epic that raised eyebrows at the time but is now considered a classic. The band reissued the album in 2022 for its 20th anniversary, in a “super deluxe edition” that has been“Cruel Country,” released in May 2022, is a double album that was mostly recorded live at The Loft, the band’s studio in Chicago. All 21 songs were written by Tweedy.
on Feb. 13, 2005, in Birmingham. The band skipped the Grammys ceremony to play at the Alabama Theatre, although they were highly touted as a nominee. Wilco won the Grammy for Best Alternative Music Album for “A Ghost Is Born,” and celebrated its win that night with an audience in Birmingham. “It was simply one of those times when you were glad to be in Birmingham,” AL.com said in its concert review. “Mostly, the men of Wilco put their heads down and played like the dickens. They offered a jubilant selection of music, much of it pulled from complex, layered albums such as ‘Yankee Hotel Foxtrot’ and ‘A Ghost Is Born.’ [Frontman Jeff] Tweedy, although notoriously crabby in the past, seemed serenely in control on Sunday, nailing his spiky guitar solos with aplomb.
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