Following up on last year’s countrified masterwork Cruel Country, Chicago’s finest return with their first album since 2007’s Sky Blue Sky to be guided by an outside producer.
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A middle-aged woman walked on stage at the Riviera, blinking under the lights. She introduced herself as a local Chicago WXRT rock radio station spokeswoman and remarked, “Wilco is as Chicago as the river. They run right through this town.” After briefly thanking the audience, she dipped back into the shadows, leaving the crowd itching.
If there was one overarching theme of the setlist for Wilco at the Riviera Theatre on March 26th, it was the dominance of that guitar and in turn one of the band’s more lead-heavy albums, Sky Blue Sky.