In an earlier CL post, we welcomed WMNF radio programmer Amy Snider, a guest blogger preparing to head up to the Solid Sound Festival in North Adams, Mass. to interview her favorite band, Wilco, and enjoy the weekend's festivities with her 15-year-old daughter, Josie, who had inherited her mother’s passionate hero worship for Wilco. This is her detailed account of their advetures.
THE JOURNEY
We started in Connecticut, where we packed up our rented red Corolla and did a last-minute email check for any Solid Sound Festival news that became a 20-minute ordeal due to my mom’s dial-up connection. It was worth the wait as I read the most exciting words my inbox has ever seen: Wilco Press Conference. And I was invited.
We trucked north on the Mass Pike and the air was so cool, we opened the windows. We drove over an old bridge on our approach to the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA), a compound of 19th-Century brick factory buildings. A sign perched atop the roof of the museum beckoned with giant white metal letters that read “MASS MOCA.” The best five letters of the alphabet, W-I-L-C-O, were superimposed in large orange letters over the white MASS MOCA sign. We shrieked with glee.
This article appears in Aug 19-25, 2010.