Tweedy Mesmerizes Crowd at Hardly Strictly BluegrassRandy Shawbyline‚ Oct. 09‚ 2007On Friday night, Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy played a 100-minute show for the ages at Warren Hellman’s Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. Longtime concertgoers compared Tweedy’s performance to the finest outdoor music experience of their lives, with Tweedy mesmerizing the crowd with only his acoustic guitar. But incredibly, in Joel Selvin’s October 8 San Francisco Chronicle review of the festival, Tweedy is not even mentioned. Instead, Selvin lauds T Bone Burnett for a “triumphant Friday appearance” without mentioning that he preceded Tweedy and that his show was an erratic sounding mess. Maybe Selvin missed the Friday night shows, but anyone who saw both would recognize that Burnett’s show was forgettable while Tweedy presented a classic. |