Wilco was so awesome in Wilmington on Friday that even the vegetables got up and danced.
OK, so it was just one vegetable: Mr. Celery, the salty Wilmington
Blue Rocks mascot, who stalked Jeff Tweedy and crew onstage toward the
end of the celebrated Chicago band's two-hour-plus show at Frawley
Stadium, the sextet's only scheduled Philadelphia-area appearance on
this tour.
It was a lovely evening for a doubleheader at a single-A
minor-league baseball stadium, with Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley
Band opening. (More on Oberst later.)
And coming on the heels of the release of Wilco (the album),
the experimental Americana outfit's seventh studio album, it offered an
opportunity to stand at second base - or sit on the third-base line -
and take the measure of a restless and revered band.
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