Still in New Orleans — the Weather Wins, Wilco Go Long, and Joni gets the Biopic Treatment

On his final night in New Orleans, Brian Wise files a slightly frayed dispatch that captures Jazz Fest’s defining tension: a festival big enough to feel infinite, and a schedule brutal enough to make you choose your regrets in advance. Episode 22 becomes a story about how festivals actually unfold—less like neat recaps and more like a sequence of weather calls, crowd-panics, and last-minute pivots. With the festival reckoning done, the conversation swings to another kind of canon-building: Joni Mitchell. Sparked by a Mojo “top 50 songs” feature, the hosts trade favourites (Wise namechecks “Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter” and multiple Court and Spark staples, plus “Magdalene Laundries,” “Amelia,” and “River”), and Wise recalls seeing Mitchell at Jazz Fest in 1995, performing with her VG-8 guitar setup. They also discuss an attention-grabbing industry development: a Joni Mitchell biopic being directed by Cameron Crowe, with Meryl Streep cast as the older Mitchell and Anya Taylor-Joy as the younger. The enthusiasm is tempered by a journalist’s instinctive question: can a close friend make an objective film? Show Notes Fred Wesley & The New J.B.'s | Live at Moods  Isaiah Collier & The Chosen Few - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)   Wilco - Impossible Germany with full solo recorded live at the Saenger Theatre May 2026 Mavis Staples Chicago May 3 2026 New Orleans Jazz Fest  Herbie Hancock - Chameleon (Official Audio)  Joni Mitchell's 50 Greatest Songs In The New MOJO!  Little Feat - Spanish Moon (Official Music Video)