Hoodoo Encore
By: Will CovielloOctober 28th, 2007
Wilco played a well-received 90 minutes, which included most of the songs off Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. Jeff Tweedy seemed more into the music than the audience though he sportingly helped some unnamed Voodoo-goer propose to a woman identified on the jumboscreen as Yuri. As a brief silence followed, presumably giving Yuri time to contemplate the offer, Tweedy explained to the audience that he had changed a line in the previous song refering to girls lifting up their shirts at rock shows. He acknowledged that he was killing the romance of the moment, but reported that Yuri said yes.
Tweedy found a little more self-satisfaction when the band came on for an encore and he announced that they had to play “Hoodoo Voodoo” off of Mermaid Avenue, which they turned into a sort of countrified romp. But even those going home single seemed to like it.
