Wilco “A Ghost Is Born” 2xLP

As Tweedy said to Mehr for his new liner note, Making that record, and then finding this lineup, that was the start of somethingof having a band that can play anything. Thats why, twenty years later, were still here and still going.Wilco first began sessions for what would become A Ghost Is Born in early 2002 at Chicagos Soma E.M.S., where they had mixed Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. Much of the album was tracked live in the studio with ORourke 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 Tweedys 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 theyd been in, and only be thinking about making a record, ORourke 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 preserveenthusiastic 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.

Track List:

Full Length Vinyl 1

Side A
01 At Least That’s What You Said
02 Hell Is Chrome
03 Spiders (Kidsmoke)

Side B
01 Muzzle of Bees
02 Hummingbird
03 Handshake Drugs

Full Length Vinyl 2

Side A
01 Wishful Thinking
02 Company in My Back
03 I’m a Wheel
04 Theologians

Side B
01 Less Than You Think
02 The Late Greats