Wilco: A Ghost Is Born (2xCD)

Nonesuch releases a deluxe edition of Wilco’s 2004 Grammy Award–winning album A Ghost Is Born.

For the A Ghost Is Born recording, Wilco was Jeff Tweedy, John Stirratt, Leroy Bach, Glenn Kotche, and Mikael Jorgensen; Jim O’Rourke, who mixed the band’s previous release Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, co-produced the album with Wilco. Leroy Bach left Wilco at the completion of the sessions and the band announced the addition of two new members: Pat Sansone and Nels Cline. Sansone and Cline toured with Wilco to promote A Ghost Is Born and that lineup has remained unchanged since 2004.

As Tweedy said to Mehr for his new liner note, “Making that record, and then finding this lineup, that was the start of something – of having a band that can play anything. That’s why, 20 years later, we’re still here and still going.”

The two-CD expanded edition of Wilco's 2004 Grammy-winning album A Ghost Is Born includes the original album plus a second disc of outtakes and alternates.

CD 1

1. At Least That’s What You Said
2. Hell Is Chrome
3. Spiders (Kidsmoke)
4. Muzzle Of Bees
5. Hummingbird
6. Handshake Drugs
7. Wishful Thinking
8. Company In My Back
9. I’m A Wheel
10. Theologians
11. Less Than You Think
12. The Late Greats

CD 2

1. At Least That’s What You Said (8/13/02 SOMA-Chicago Version)
2. Hell Is Chrome (10/5/03 SOMA-Chicago Version)
3. Spiders (Kidsmoke) (9/28/03 SOMA-Chicago Version)
4. Muzzle Of Bees (7/15/03 SOMA-Chicago Version)
5. Hummingbird (2/8/02 SOMA-Chicago Version)
6. Handshake Drugs (11/13/03 Sear Sound-NYC Version)
7. Wishful Thinking (11/1/03 Sear Sound-NYC Version)
8. Company In My Back (2/8/03 Hothouse-St. Kilda, Melbourne Version)
9. I’m A Wheel (August, 2002 SOMA-Chicago Version)
10. Theologians (3/19/03 SOMA-Chicago Version)
11. Less Than You Think (11/11/03 Sear Sound-NYC Version)
12. The Late Greats (7/19/03 SOMA-Chicago Version)
13. Kicking Television (3/18/03 SOMA-Chicago Version)
14. The High Heat (2/5/02 SOMA-Chicago Version)
15. Panthers (March, 2003 SOMA-Chicago Version)
16. Diamond Claw (3/21/03 SOMA-Chicago Version)
17. Bob Dylan’s 49th Beard (June, 2002 SOMA-Chicago Version)
18. More Like The Moon (2/8/02 SOMA-Chicago Version)
19. Improbable Germany (10/7/03 SOMA-Chicago Version)