Winter’s just around the corner, so let’s get you in the mood with this one: Wilco at the Snow Job Festival, Marble Mountain Ski Resort in Newfoundland, March 18, 1997 — outdoors, in the dead of winter, surrounded by snowy mountains. None of it slowed the band down. Being There had come out five months earlier, and the set leans on it, with Jeff Tweedy and Jay Bennett trading guitar pyrotechnics that heat the place up fast.
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