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PRE-ORDER: Wilco "A Ghost Is Born (Deluxe Edition)" 9xLP + 4xCD Box Set

PRE-ORDER: Wilco "A Ghost Is Born (Deluxe Edition)" 9xLP + 4xCD Box Set

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This is a pre-order. We expect this to ship on or around FEBRUARY 7th, 2025. Any items ordered with this will be held until they can be shipped together.

This Deluxe Edition features 9 LPs (in 3 gatefolds and 1 trifold; all jacket interiors feature photography by Michael Schmelling)(original studio album plus alternates, outtakes and demos; and the complete October 2004 concert at the Wang Center in Boston)4 CDs (the complete Fundamentals, housed at the back of a 48-page full-color hardcover book [with previously unpublished photos and a new in-depth recording history of the album by Grammy winning writer Bob Mehr].  All encased in 2-piece box (slipcase in slipcase), holographic foil type on spine
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 AGIB 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, twenty years later, we’re still here and still going.”Wilco first began sessions for what would become A Ghost Is Born in early 2002 at Chicago’s Soma E.M.S., where they had mixed Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. Much of the album was tracked live in the studio with O’Rourke and engineer Chris Shaw. They also reunited there with engineer and soon-to-be-bandmate Mikael Jorgensen.At Soma, the band began sketching out music using Tweedy’s notebooks of lyrics, poetry, and prose. Mehr notes: “In between more traditional song tracking, the group would engage in a series of conceptual improvisations in the studio. These musical experiments, broadly known as ‘Fundamentals’ …were part of what Kotche said was ‘an attempt to search for a new group identity. To see what we could make this band into.’”In the fall of 2003, the band relocated to New York to finish recording at Sear Sound. “It seemed like the band needed to get out of Chicago, get out of the working mode they’d been in, and only be thinking about making a record,” O’Rourke told Mehr. There, playing together in the corner of a large studio, the album began to take its final shape.Emerging from a period of addiction and rehab, Tweedy discussed how he feels about A Ghost Is Born in retrospect. As he told Mehr, “I was worried the album was going to feel like something dark and not me anymore. But the album was ahead of me as a person. It was the part of me that I was trying to preserve—enthusiastic and furious about the world, as well as open and loving. I reached that in the music, before I could get there emotionally on my own.”
80 Tracks, 65 Previously Unissued 
Original 2LP Album Plus: 
4LPs: Alternates, outtakes & demos 
3LPs: Complete 10/1/04 concert at the Wang Center-Boston, MA 
4CDs: Complete Fundamentals on 4CDs 
Plus a deluxe 48-page hardcover book with previously unpublished photos
A new in-depth history of the album By Grammy-winning writer Bob Mehr 
Track List: 

LP 1 & 2: A Ghost Is Born (Original Album)   

LP 1 Side A    
A1/01. At Least That’s What You Said (5:32) 
A2/02. Hell Is Chrome (4:38)   
A3/03. Spiders (Kidsmoke) (10:46)   

LP 1 Side B  
B1/04. Muzzle Of Bees (4:56)   
B2/05. Hummingbird (3:12)   
B3/06.Handshake Drugs (6:08)  

LP 2 Side C  
C1/07. Wishful Thinking (4:38)  
C2/08. Company In My Back (3:47)  
C3/09. I’m A Wheel (2:38)  
C4/10. Theologians (3:37)  

LP 2 Side D  
D1/11. Less Than You Think (15:04)  
D2/12. The Late Greats (2:33)  

LP 3 & 4: dBpm: Outtakes/Alternates 1   

LP 3 Side E  
E1/13. At Least That’s What You Said (8/13/02 SOMA-Chicago) (5:12)   
E2/14. Hell Is Chrome (10/5/03 SOMA-Chicago) (3:46)  
E3/15. Spiders (Kidsmoke) (9/28/03 SOMA-Chicago) (4:47)   
E4/16. Muzzle Of Bees (7/15/03 SOMA-Chicago) (5:09)   

LP 3 Side F  
F1/17. Hummingbird (2/8/02 SOMA-Chicago) (3:52)  
F2/18. Handshake Drugs (11/13/03 Sear Sound-NYC) (7:47)  
F3/19. Wishful Thinking (11/1/03 Sear Sound-NYC) (4:41)  
F4/20. Company In My Back (2/8/03 Hothouse-St. Kilda, Melbourne) (4:22)   

LP 4 Side G  
G1/21. I’m A Wheel (August, 2002 SOMA-Chicago) (2:36)  
G2/22. Theologians (3/19/03 SOMA-Chicago) (3:26)  
G3/23. Less Than You Think (11/11/03 Sear Sound-NYC) (2:57)  
G4/24. The Late Greats (7/19/03 SOMA-Chicago) (3:47)  
G5/25. Kicking Television (3/18/03 SOMA-Chicago) (2:59)  
G6/26. The High Heat (2/5/02 SOMA-Chicago) (3:03)   

LP 4 Side H  
H1/27. Panthers (March, 2003 SOMA-Chicago) (3:55)   
H2/28. Diamond Claw (3/21/03 SOMA-Chicago) (3:29)   
H3/29. Bob Dylan’s 49th Beard (June, 2002 SOMA-Chicago) (2:22)  
H4/30. More Like The Moon (2/8/02 SOMA-Chicago) (6:34)  
H5/31. Improbable Germany (10/7/03 SOMA-Chicago) (3:38)  

LP 5 & 6: Unstitched: Outtakes/Alternates 2   

LP 5 Side I  
I1/32. Handshake Drugs (First Version - 6/26/02 SOMA-Chicago) (5:09)  
I2/33. Hummingbird (February, 2002 SOMA-Chicago) (4:04)  
I3/34. The High Heat (2/4/02 SOMA-Chicago) (3:04)  
I4/35. Spiders (Kidsmoke) (February, 2002 SOMA-Chicago) (6:36)  

LP 5 Side J  
J1/36. Diamond Claw (March, 2003 SOMA-Chicago) (3:44)  
J2/37. Muzzle Of Bees (October, 2003 Sear-NYC) (4:17)  
J3/38. Like A Stone (11/10/03 Sear Sound-NYC) (2:23)  
J4/39. Leave Me (Like You Found Me) (6/26/02 SOMA-Chicago) (7:25)  
J5/40. Losing Interest (11/11/03 Sear Sound-NYC) (2:16)  

LP 6 Side K  
K1/41. Old Maid (6/26/02 SOMA-Chicago) (2:48)  
K2/42. Spiders (Kidsmoke) (August, 2002 SOMA-Chicago) (4:57)   
K3/43. Panthers (October, 2003 Sear-NYC) (3:36)   
K4/44. Muzzle Of Bees (7/16/03 SOMA-Chicago) (3:58)  
K5/45. Diamond Claw (10/9/03 SOMA-Chicago) (3:10)  

LP 6 Side L  
L1/46. Losing Interest (7/20/03 SOMA-Chicago) (3:16)  
L2/47. Spiders (Kidsmoke) (October, 2003 SOMA-Chicago) (4:40)  
L3/48. The Thanks I Get (6/26/02 SOMA-Chicago) (3:16)   
L4/49. Two Hat Blues (March, 2003 SOMA-Chicago) (2:33)  
L5/50. Improbable Germany (January, 2002 Pre-Production Loft session) (4:02)  

LP 7-9: The Hook At The Wang (10/1/04 Wang Center-Boston, MA)   

LP 7 Side M  
M1/51. Muzzle Of Bees (Live at Wang Center-Boston, MA 10/1/04) (5:17)  
M2/52. Company In My Back (Live at Wang Center-Boston, MA 10/1/04) (3:43)  
M3/53. I Am Trying To Break Your Heart (Live at Wang Center-Boston, MA 10/1/04) (6:24)  
M4/54. A Shot In The Arm (Live at Wang Center-Boston, MA 10/1/04) (4:56)  

LP 7 Side N  
N1/55. Hell Is Chrome (Live at Wang Center-Boston, MA 10/1/04) (5:38)  
N2/56. Handshake Drugs (Live at Wang Center-Boston, MA 10/1/04) (6:31)  
N3/57. Jesus, Etc. (Live at Wang Center-Boston, MA 10/1/04) (4:16)  
N4/58. Hummingbird (Live at Wang Center-Boston, MA 10/1/04) (3:39)  
LP 8 Side O  
O1/59. I’m Always In Love (Live at Wang Center-Boston, MA 10/1/04) (3:52)  
O2/60. At Least That’s What You Said (Live at Wang Center-Boston, MA 10/1/04) (5:36)  
O3/61. Ashes Of American Flags (Live at Wang Center-Boston, MA 10/1/04) (6:53)  
O4/62. Theologians (Live at Wang Center-Boston, MA 10/1/04) (3:38)  

LP 8 Side P  
P1/63. I’m The Man Who Loves You (Live at Wang Center-Boston, MA 10/1/04) (3:45)  
P2/64. Poor Places (Live at Wang Center-Boston, MA 10/1/04) (5:43)  
P3/65. Spiders (Kidsmoke) (Live at Wang Center-Boston, MA 10/1/04) (11:44)  

LP 9 Side Q  
Q1/66. She’s A Jar (Live at Wang Center-Boston, MA 10/1/04) (5:43)  
Q2/67. A Magazine Called Sunset (Live at Wang Center-Boston, MA 10/1/04) (3:08)  
Q3/68. Kingpin (Live at Wang Center-Boston, MA 10/1/04) (5:05)  
Q4/69. The Late Greats (Live at Wang Center-Boston, MA 10/1/04) (2:48)  

LP 9 Side R  
R1/70. I’m A Wheel (Live at Wang Center-Boston, MA 10/1/04) (4:54)  
R2/71. Via Chicago (Live at Wang Center-Boston, MA 10/1/04) (5:10)  
R3/72. California Stars (Live at Wang Center-Boston, MA 10/1/04) (5:33)  
R4/73. Christ For President (Live at Wang Center-Boston, MA 10/1/04) (3:09)  

CD 1: Fundamentals 1 & 2   
01/74. Fundamental 1 (30:18)  
02/75. Fundamental 2 (33:35)  

CD 2: Fundamentals 3 & 4   
01/76. Fundamental 3 (32:21)  
02/77. Fundamental 4 (32:16)   

CD 3: Fundamentals 5 & 6   
01/78. Fundamental 5 (32:58)  
02/79. Fundamental 6 (22:30)  

CD 4: Fundamental 7   
01/80. Fundamental 7 (32:38)  

 

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