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

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572157

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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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LP
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21.00
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075597928815
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News & Reviews

  • Wilco's Jeff Tweedy joined Cheryl Pawelski in conversation at a Recording Academy event in Chicago 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 them the Grammy Award for Best Historical Album in 2023 as compilation producers and writer Bob Mehr the Grammy for Best Album Notes. You can watch their conversation here.

  • Wilco’s 2007 album Sky Blue Sky is now available in a limited-edition two-LP, sky-blue vinyl release; you can take a quick look inside here. The Gold-selling album made year’s best lists from Rolling Stone, Uncut, Mojo, BBC Radio 6 Music, and more. “Near perfect,” said Spin. Featuring the band that was assembled after the release of 2004’s A ghost is born, Sky Blue Sky was the first studio album from a lineup that has remained the same to today: guitarist, singer, and principal songwriter Jeff Tweedy, bassist John Stirratt, percussionist Glenn Kotche, keyboardist Mikael Jorgensen, multi-instrumentalist Pat Sansone, and avant-jazz guitarist Nels Cline.

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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