Wilco's Jeff Tweedy joined Cheryl Pawelski for a conversation moderated by Justin Roberts at the Rhapsody Theater in Chicago on February 27—an Up Close & Personal session of the Recording Academy's Midwest Chapter celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the band's groundbreaking album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. The super deluxe anniversary edition of the album, released in September 2022, earned Tweedy and Pawelski the Grammy Award for Best Historical Album in 2023 as compilation producers and writer Bob Mehr the Grammy for Best Album Notes.

"I go backwards and try to reconstruct how things happen," Pawelski says of her process for working on a project like the Yankee Hotel Foxtrot anniversary edition, "and it's always incomplete and I don't know what I'm missing, so it's extra fun."

You can watch their conversation here:

The 11-LP Super Deluxe Edition of Wilco’s 2002 Nonesuch debut comprises the original album, remastered for its 20th anniversary in 2022, plus 82 previously unreleased tracks. Includes demos, drafts, and instrumentals, charting the making of the album; a live 2002 concert recording; and a September 2001 radio performance and interview. The box set also includes a new book featuring an interview with Jeff Tweedy, Glenn Kotche, and Jim O’Rourke; an in-depth essay by Mehr; and previously unseen photos of the band making the album in their Chicago studio. On Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, the band delivers a thrillingly experimental work that scored a perfect 10 on Pitchfork, which hailed the album as “complex and dangerously catchy, lyrically sophisticated and provocative, noisy and somehow serene … simply a masterpiece.” Uncut called it “a stone-cold classic.” You can get it here.