Wilco (the album) Picture Disc

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Wilco (the album) (the picture disc) melds the 2009 album's acclaimed music with the whimsy of the original photography on one vinyl disc. The band's seventh studio album "is all about a great band playing great original music on an album filled with great songs," says NPR. The Independent gave a perfect five stars to this "magnificent" album.

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Wilco's seventh studio album Wilco (the album), first released on Nonesuch in 2009, was released as a picture disc LP on October 26, 2018. Wilco (the album) (the picture disc) melds the album's acclaimed music with the whimsy of the original photography by Autumn de Wilde and graphic design by Jeff Tweedy and Lawrence Azerrad, all on a single vinyl disc. The picture disc is pressed in a limited-edition run of 3,000 pieces. 

Wilco (the album), which features a vocal duet with Feist on the song "You And I," received international critical acclaim upon its release and was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Americana Album. Pitchfork said, "This is the work of veterans unafraid to express mature emotions with an appropriate level of musical depth and nuance." The album "is all about a great band playing great original music on an album filled with great songs," said NPR. The Independent gave it a perfect five stars and called it "magnificent."

ProductionCredits

PRODUCTION CREDITS
Produced by Wilco and Jim Scott
Recorded by Jim Scott
Additional engineering by Jordan Stone, TJ Doherty, and Jason Tobias
Recorded at Roundhead Studios, Auckland, New Zealand, and The Loft, Chicago
Mixed by Jim Scott with Kevin Dean at PLYRZ Studios, Santa Clarita, CA
Mastered by Bob Ludwig at Gateway Mastering, Portland, ME

All songs written by Jeff Tweedy except "Deeper Down" (Tweedy/Sansone)

Leslie Feist appears with courtesy of Polydor, a Universal Music France division

Photography: Autumn de Wilde
Original Album Graphic Design: Jeff Tweedy and Lawrence Azerrad

Nonesuch Selection Number

572157

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Album Status
Artist Name
Wilco
MusicianDetails

MUSICIANS
Wilco are Jeff Tweedy, John Stirratt, Glenn Kotche, Mikael Jorgensen, Nels Cline, and Pat Sansone
Wilco played rock band and non-rock band instruments and sang.
With Leslie Feist, vocals (5); Dave Max Crawford, trumpet (11); and Jason Tobias, slide cimbalom (2)

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Label
LP
Price
21.00
UPC
075597928815
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News & Reviews

  • Record Store Day, the annual celebration of independent record stores, will take place on Saturday, April 22, 2023, and included among the special releases on that day are the previously unreleased full-length live recording of The Black Keys' very first show at Beachland Tavern in Cleveland in 2002, on tangerine-colored vinyl; the first-ever vinyl release of The Magnetic Fields’ 2004 Nonesuch debut album, i, on gold-colored vinyl; and an alternate version of Wilco's landmark album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, featuring unique performances of all eleven songs, originally released as a bonus CD with the September 2022 issue of Uncut.

  • Congratulations to all the winners at tonight's Grammy Awards, including Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway, whose debut album, Crooked Tree, won Best Bluegrass Album; Wilco, Best Historical Album (compilation producers Cheryl Pawelski & Jeff Tweedy and mastering engineer Bob Ludwig) and Best Album Notes (Bob Mehr) for the 20th anniversary super deluxe edition of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot; Taj Mahal & Ry Cooder, Best Traditional Blues Album for GET ON BOARD: The Songs of Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, with Joachim Cooder; and Caroline Shaw & Attacca Quartet, Best Chamber Music / Small Ensemble Performance for Evergreen.

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    Wilco's seventh studio album Wilco (the album), first released on Nonesuch in 2009, was released as a picture disc LP on October 26, 2018. Wilco (the album) (the picture disc) melds the album's acclaimed music with the whimsy of the original photography by Autumn de Wilde and graphic design by Jeff Tweedy and Lawrence Azerrad, all on a single vinyl disc. The picture disc is pressed in a limited-edition run of 3,000 pieces. 

    Wilco (the album), which features a vocal duet with Feist on the song "You And I," received international critical acclaim upon its release and was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Americana Album. Pitchfork said, "This is the work of veterans unafraid to express mature emotions with an appropriate level of musical depth and nuance." The album "is all about a great band playing great original music on an album filled with great songs," said NPR. The Independent gave it a perfect five stars and called it "magnificent."

    Credits

    MUSICIANS
    Wilco are Jeff Tweedy, John Stirratt, Glenn Kotche, Mikael Jorgensen, Nels Cline, and Pat Sansone
    Wilco played rock band and non-rock band instruments and sang.
    With Leslie Feist, vocals (5); Dave Max Crawford, trumpet (11); and Jason Tobias, slide cimbalom (2)

    PRODUCTION CREDITS
    Produced by Wilco and Jim Scott
    Recorded by Jim Scott
    Additional engineering by Jordan Stone, TJ Doherty, and Jason Tobias
    Recorded at Roundhead Studios, Auckland, New Zealand, and The Loft, Chicago
    Mixed by Jim Scott with Kevin Dean at PLYRZ Studios, Santa Clarita, CA
    Mastered by Bob Ludwig at Gateway Mastering, Portland, ME

    All songs written by Jeff Tweedy except "Deeper Down" (Tweedy/Sansone)

    Leslie Feist appears with courtesy of Polydor, a Universal Music France division

    Photography: Autumn de Wilde
    Original Album Graphic Design: Jeff Tweedy and Lawrence Azerrad