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Wilco adds dates to current tour
With guitarist Nels Cline fully recovered from his recent illness, Wilco has added new dates to its current US trek behind its latest studio set, "Sky Blue Sky."
Cline was laid low at the beginning of August with a case of the chicken pox, forcing the Chicagoans to postpone the tour's original opening date and cancel another. The shows have since gone off without a hitch, however, and the band--which appears tonight (8/24) in Berkeley, CA--has tacked on a new late-fall leg that extends the outing well into October. Dates are shown below.
Following the US shows, the band will pack up its gear and head across the Atlantic for an early winter European run. Details for the group's European adventures can be found at Wilco's official website.
"Sky Blue Sky," the band's seventh studio album, follows 2004's "A Ghost is Born." The group self-produced the new set in its own Chicago studio, with TJ Doherty (Sonic Youth, The Hold Steady) handling recording chores and Jim Scott (The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Dixie Chicks) doing the mixing.
The album arrived on The Billboard 200 album chart in the No. 4 spot, marking the band's highest debut ever.
