Nonesuch releases a deluxe edition of Wilco's 2004 Grammy Award-winning album A Ghost Is Born. The box set comprises nine CDs - including the original album, alternates, outtakes, and demos, charting the making of A Ghost Is Born-plus the complete 2004 concert recording from Boston's Wang Center and the band's "fundamentals" workshop sessions. It includes sixty-five previously unreleased music tracks as well as a forty-eight-page hardcover book with previously unpublished photos and a new liner note by Grammy-winning writer Bob Mehr. An alternate version of "Handshake Drugs," recorded during the studio sessions at New York's Sear Sound, twenty-one years ago this month, on November 13, 2003, is available now.

A Ghost Is Born was released commercially on June 22, 2004, debuting at No. 8 on the Billboard chart. The album, which Mehr calls "an eclectic array of dark ballads, upbeat pop songs, Krautrock chug, noise rock freakouts, and roots rock abandon," was widely acclaimed as one of 2004's best, appearing in year-end lists of Mojo, NPR, NME, the Associated Press, The Wire, Rolling Stone, the Village Voice, and Uncut, among many others. The album earned the band its first Grammy, for Best Alternative Music Album. The album also won a Grammy for Best Recording Package.

LÅTAR:
A Ghost Is Born
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

dBpm: Outtakes/Alternates 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
13. Kicking Television
14. The High Heat
15. Panthers
16. Diamond Claw
17. Bob Dylan's 49th Beard
18. More Like The Moon
19. Improbable Germany

Unstitched: Outtakes/Alternates 2
1. Handshake Drugs (First Version)
2. Hummingbird
3. The High Heat
4. Spiders (Kidsmoke)
5. Diamond Claw
6. Muzzle Of Bees
7. Like A Stone
8. Leave Me (Like You Found Me)
9. Losing Interest
10. Old Maid
11. Spiders (Kidsmoke)
12. Panthers
13. Muzzle Of Bees
14. Diamond Claw
15. Losing Interest
16. Spiders (Kidsmoke)
17. The Thanks I Get
18. Two Hat Blues
19. Improbable Germany

The Hook at The Wang (Live October 1 2004 at the Wang Center-Boston, MA
1. Muzzle Of Bees
2. Company In My Back
3. I Am Trying To Break Your Heart
4. A Shot In The Arm
5. Hell Is Chrome
6. Handshake Drugs
7. Jesus, Etc.
8. Hummingbird
9. I'm Always In Love
10. At Least That's What You Said
11. Ashes Of American Flags
12. Theologians
13. I'm The Man Who Loves You
14. Poor Places
15. Spiders (Kidsmoke)
16. She's A Jar
17. A ****zine Called Sunset
18. Kingpin
19. The Late Greats
20. I'm A Wheel
21. Via Chicago
22. California Stars
23. Christ For President

Fundamentals
1. Fundamental 1
2. Fundamental 2
3. Fundamental 3
4. Fundamental 4
5. Fundamental 5
6. Fundamental 6
7. Fundamental 7

Booklet
1. New liner notes by Bob Mehr

ÖVRIGT:
Mediatyp: 9 CD + Bok
Produktionsår: 2025
Distributör: WMS
Label: Nonesuch

Streckkod: 0075597899016
SKU: 199188