An Evening with Wilco” will feature extended, varied sets exploring material from each of the accomplished Chicago sextet’s seven studio albums. The date marks Wilco’s first-ever concert appearance in the city of Scranton.
Wilco’s latest studio album, the Grammy-nominated Wilco (The Album) has landed on many critic’s year end polls as one of the best albums of 2009 and Rolling Stone magazine recently cited Wilco’s 2002 album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot as the 3rd best album of the decade. You can view a full list of honors in the News section of Wilcoworld.net.
Founded by Jeff Tweedy in 1995 with bassist John Stirratt, Wilco is Jeff Tweedy (guitars, vocals), John Stirratt (bass, vocals), Glenn Kotche (drums), Nels Cline (guitars), Pat Sansone (guitars, keyboards, vocals) and Mike Jorgensen (keyboards, vocals). The band has released seven studio albums, a live album and a live DVD as well as two collaborations with Billy Bragg on material by Woody Guthrie.