To celebrate the anniversary of this unique album in their catalog, Wilco will release a box set with over 65 unreleased tracks and a complete concert from 2004.
A little over 20 years ago, in June 2004, Wilco released a unique album in their catalog. A Ghost Is Born was the Chicago band's fifth album and the first they made after the studio innovations of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, released in 2002. Expectations were high, and the album exceeded them, winning rave reviews and the Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album while expanding its audience. Today, Wilco revisits A Ghost Is Born in a super-deluxe box set which will be released on February 7, 2025.
This box set will be available from Nonesuch Records on nine CDs or nine vinyls/four CDs, each containing the original 2004 album as well as over 65 previously unreleased demos, alternate takes, a full concert performed that year at the Wang Center in Boston and a 48-page book including notes by rock historian Bob Mehr. You can now listen to a new studio take of “ Handshake Drugs », recorded on November 13, 2003.
