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Curse you, chicken pox! The most popular excuse for missing a week of kindergarten has claimed another victim: Wilco guitarist (and solo artist) Nels Cline. Yep, Cline is rife with tiny, itchy hives, and as such, the band has been forced to duck out of a pair of forthcoming dates.

Sez Wilcoworld.net:

We're sorry to report that our good friend and Wilco guitarist extraordinaire Nels Cline has recently contracted a rather nasty case of the CHICKEN POX (not sure that should be in all caps... but judging from the gruesome details in email correspondence we've had with NC, we'll leave it so). He is slowly on the mend but is not quite there yet...

And you thought Sky Blue Sky was wimpy! (Zing! Actually, we hear chicken pox is particularly nasty for adults.)

Thanks to reader Steve Jones for the tip.

Tomorrow night's gig in Duluth has been rescheduled for September 4, and the Winnipeg date the next evening is off, to be either rescheduled or nixed completely. Barring a nasty case of grass-stained knees from our boy Jeffy, the updated Wilco tour schedule is yours after the jump.

You can't have it once you've had it:

08-14 Duluth, MN - Bayfront Festival Park
08-15 Winnipeg, Manitoba - Burton Cummings Theatre
08-17 Calgary, Alberta - Jubilee Auditorium #
08-18 Edmonton, Alberta - Jubilee Auditorium #
08-20 Vancouver, British Columbia - Malkin Bowl #
08-21 Seattle, WA - Marymoor Park #
08-22 Troutdale, OR - Edgefield #
08-24 Berkeley, CA - Greek Theatre #
08-26 Santa Barbara, CA - County Bowl #
08-27 San Diego, CA - SDSU Open Air Theater #
08-29 Los Angeles, CA - Greek Theatre #
09-01 Denver, CO - Fillmore Auditorium #
09-02 Denver, CO - Fillmore Auditorium #
09-04 Duluth, MN - Bayfront Festival Park
09-11 Madison, WI - Overture Hall *
09-12 Chicago, IL - Pritzker Pavilion *
09-13 Southaven, MS - Snowden Grove Amphitheatre *
09-14 Dallas, TX - Palladium Ballroom *
09-16 Austin, TX - Austin City Limits Festival
09-18 Little Rock, AR - Robinson Auditorium *
09-19 Columbia, MO - 9th Street Summerfest *
09-21 Louisville, KY - Louisville Slugger Field *
10-28 New Orleans, LA - Voodoo Music Experience
11-02 Manchester, England - Manchester Academy
11-04 Birmingham, England - Birmingham Academy
11-05 London, England - Brixton Academy

# with Richard Swift
* with Dr. Dog