UPDATED 12:35 P.M. 11/27
Give it up for the nonprofits. WMNF recently scored a big one by booking Drive-By Truckers and Lucinda Williams at Jannus Live (February 1), and Tampa Theatre just flexed with its sold-out presentation of Iron & Wine, but now the two organizations have come together for another impressive concert announcement.
Wilco frontman and Trump troll agitator Jeff Tweedy is releasing his first solo album, Warm, on November 30, and bringing the supporting tour to Tampa Theatre on March 14.
Tickets go on sale Friday, November 30 at 10 a.m. and will cost fans $40-$50. Chicago guitarist and Tweedy collaborator James Elkington will open the show.
In a phone call to CL, WMNF Development Director Laura Taylor clarified that the station is merely helping Tampa Theatre promote it and did not book the show. Still pretty cool to see the station supporting one of its core artists anyway.
Other Florida stops on the tour include Ponte Vedra (March 11 at Ponte Vedra Concert Hall), Ft. Lauderdale (March 15 at The Parker Playhouse) and Orlando (March 17 at The Plaza Live).
Warm was produced and recorded entirely by Jeff at Chicago’s now-legendary studio, The Loft, with help from some of his usual collaborators, like Spencer Tweedy, Glenn Kotche and Tom Schick.
"Although not an official companion-piece to his newly released memoir,the two works are inextricably linked by time and topic," it said in a release, "some of the stories Jeff mined for his book appear in some form on the album, and the lyrics for many songs off the record close out his book."
Expect to hear it all in Tampa.
Jeff Tweedy w/James Elkington. Thurs., March 14. 7:30 p.m. $40-$50. Tampa Theatre, 711 N Franklin St., Tampa. tampatheatre.org.
This article appears in Nov 22-29, 2018.