Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

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On its Nonesuch debut, Wilco 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.” As the New York Times put it, Jeff Tweedy’s songs "unfold in richly enigmatic arrangements.”

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On its Nonesuch debut, Wilco 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.” As the New York Times put it, Jeff Tweedy’s “songs about love, America, apocalypse, and self-invention unfold in richly enigmatic arrangements.”

ProductionCredits

PRODUCTION CREDITS
Produced by Wilco
Recorded at The Loft, Chicago. Additional recording at CRC and Soma E.M.S., Chicago.
Engineers: Jay Bennett and Chris Brickley
Additional engineering by Jim O’Rourke and Jonathan Parker
Mixed by Jim O’Rourke at Soma E.M.S.
Mastered by Steve Rooke at Abbey Road Studios, London

All words written by Jeff Tweedy. Music written by Jeff Tweedy with Jay Bennett except
Tracks 1, 7, 11 music by Jeff Tweedy. All tracks published by Words Ampersand Music
(Warner Tamerlane Publishing Co., BMI) and You Want a Piece of This Music (Bug Music,
ASCAP), except tracks 1, 7, 11 published solely by Words Ampersand.
Horn and String Arrangements by John Stirratt and Jeff Tweedy

Photography: Sam Jones
Art Direction and Design: Lawrence Azerrad

Nonesuch Selection Number

79669

Number of Discs in Set
1disc
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184
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463
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0
Album Status
Artist Name
Wilco
MusicianDetails

MUSICIANS
Wilco was Jeff Tweedy, John Stirratt, Leroy Bach, Glenn Kotche, and Jay Bennett with: Craig Christiansen, Ken Coomer, Jessy Greene, Fred Lonberg-Holm, and Jim O'Rourke.

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UPC/Price
Label
CD+MP3
UPC
075597966923BUN
Label
MP3
Price
9.00
UPC
075597966961
Label
2LP+MP3
UPC
075597950915
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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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  • About This Album

    On its Nonesuch debut, Wilco 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.” As the New York Times put it, Jeff Tweedy’s “songs about love, America, apocalypse, and self-invention unfold in richly enigmatic arrangements.”

    Credits

    MUSICIANS
    Wilco was Jeff Tweedy, John Stirratt, Leroy Bach, Glenn Kotche, and Jay Bennett with: Craig Christiansen, Ken Coomer, Jessy Greene, Fred Lonberg-Holm, and Jim O'Rourke.

    PRODUCTION CREDITS
    Produced by Wilco
    Recorded at The Loft, Chicago. Additional recording at CRC and Soma E.M.S., Chicago.
    Engineers: Jay Bennett and Chris Brickley
    Additional engineering by Jim O’Rourke and Jonathan Parker
    Mixed by Jim O’Rourke at Soma E.M.S.
    Mastered by Steve Rooke at Abbey Road Studios, London

    All words written by Jeff Tweedy. Music written by Jeff Tweedy with Jay Bennett except
    Tracks 1, 7, 11 music by Jeff Tweedy. All tracks published by Words Ampersand Music
    (Warner Tamerlane Publishing Co., BMI) and You Want a Piece of This Music (Bug Music,
    ASCAP), except tracks 1, 7, 11 published solely by Words Ampersand.
    Horn and String Arrangements by John Stirratt and Jeff Tweedy

    Photography: Sam Jones
    Art Direction and Design: Lawrence Azerrad