Wilco, Sylvan Esso, Father John Misty, Built to Spill, Waxahatchee & more played Sky Blue Sky 2023 (pics)

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Wilco, Sylvan Esso, Father John Misty, Built to Spill, Waxahatchee & more played Sky Blue Sky 2023 (pics)

Wilco brought their Sky Blue Sky destination festival back to Riviera Maya, Mexico’s Hard Rock Hotel last week, where they played three separate sets, with the first themed “first tracks,” and the second themed “blue.” For the third, on Tuesday (12/5), they brought out Cate Le Bon for “Soldier Child” from this year’s great Cousin (which she produced), and Kevin Morby for Yankee Hotel Foxtrot classic “Jesus Etc.” See all three setlists below.

Cate and Kevin each played their own sets, as did Father John Misty, Sylvan Esso, Waxahatchee, Bartees Strange, Lucinda Williams, Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy (who made it a family affair with his sons Spencer Tweedy on drums and Sammy Tweedy on backing vocals, as well as Finom‘s Macie Stewart on backing vocals and violin and Sima Cunningham on backing vocals, her brother Liam Kazar on bass, and longtime friend Jim Elkington on lead guitar), Eucademix (aka Yuka C. Honda), Makaya McCraven, Built to Spill, and more. See lots of pictures from the festival by Brigid Gallagher below.

SETLIST: WILCO @ SKY BLUE SKY 2023, 12/2/2023 Infinite Surprise Art of Almost I Am Trying to Break Your Heart Can’t Stand It At Least That’s What You Said Misunderstood I Must Be High Cry All Day Wilco (The Song) Bright Leaves Sunken Treasure Either Way Levee Cousin Hummingbird Via Chicago Impossible Germany Love Is Everywhere (Beware) I’m Always in Love SETLIST: WILCO @ SKY BLUE SKY 2023, 12/3/2023 Hesitating Beauty Box Full of Letters I Am My Mother Cruel Country If I Ever Was a Child What Light Shouldn’t Be Ashamed Evicted Bird Without a Tail / Base of My Skull Tired of Taking It Out on You Forget the Flowers Someday Soon I’ll Fight Someone to Lose California Stars A Lifetime to Find Walken Kingpin Encore: Red-Eyed and Blue I Got You (At the End of the Century) Casino Queen Falling Apart (Right Now) Give Back the Key to My Heart (Doug Sahm cover) Encore 2: I’m a Wheel SETLIST: WILCO @ SKY BLUE SKY 2023, 12/5/2023 Handshake Drugs Pittsburgh Company in My Back One Wing Pot Kettle Black Side With the Seeds How to Fight Loneliness Soldier Child (with Cate Le Bon) Whole Love The Joke Explained Everyone Hides Heavy Metal Drummer Random Name Generator Jesus, Etc. (with Kevin Morby) Theologians I’m the Man Who Loves You Hate It Here A Magazine Called Sunset The Late Greats A Shot in the Arm Encore: Monday Outtasite (Outta Mind) Spiders (Kidsmoke)
Tags: Bartees strange, Built to spill, Cate le bon, Eucademix, Father john misty, Jeff tweedy, Kevin morby, Lucinda williams, Makaya mccraven, Music, Sky blue sky, Sylvan esso, Waxahatchee, Wilco