Wilco’s Nels Cline Jams With the Les Paul Trio In New York

From Rolling Stone:

When he took the stage at Iridium in New York on June 16th, as this week’s guest with Monday night regulars the Les Paul Trio, guitarist Nels Cline sported an “Ecstatic Peace!” sticker on his Fender Jazzmaster – a reference to Cline’s long association with that record label’s founder, Sonic Youth guitar icon Thurston Moore. On an evening usually reserved for technical decorum and jazz standards – parameters set by the late Les Paul when he reigned on guitar and that bandstand every Monday from 1995 until his death in 2009 (and before that, downtown at Fat Tuesday’s) – Cline’s fashion accessory was practically a live grenade, a suggestion that trouble could go off at any moment.