“It is time we had an honest discussion about the sound system at the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium: It is horrible.”
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“It is time we had an honest discussion about the sound system at the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium: It is horrible.”
The Chicago rockers sounded remarkably fresh for a band nearly 25 years into its run.
By all accounts, husband-and-wife duo Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion are happy in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts, their home since moving from Columbia, S.C. The two draw songwriting inspiration from the area’s major seasonal changes and the ghosts of Henry David Thoreau and Robert Frost. But they do occasionally miss aspects of the South.
Could you tell from the comparatively quiet opener “Sunken Treasure” that Wilco would later lead into arena-style guitar mayhem and spectacle? That’s what happened at the Thomas Wolfe Tuesday night.