Wilco’s A Ghost Is Born album was released when Jeff Tweedy and his band were at their creative peak, and to celebrate the album’s initial release, the band have prepared a deluxe 20th anniversary edition that will be released as a box set.
The box set is available in two configurations, either a 9xLP, 4xCD combo or a 9xCD set. Those discs contain the original album, alternate takes, outtakes, demos, a full-length recording of Wilco’s 2004 concert at Boston’s Wang Center, and the band’s “fundamentals” workshop sessions.
Altogether it includes 65 previously unreleased tracks, including the alternate recording of “Handshake Drugs” released recently. (That one was tracked at New York’s Sear Sound studio on 11/13/03.) There’s also a 48-page hardcover book with new liner notes by Bob Mehr, author of the great Replacements biography Trouble Boys and a Grammy-winner for his prior liner notes work.
Nonesuch Records will release Wilco’s A Ghost Is Born 20th anniversary box set on February 7, 2025, which can be pre-ordered here.
