Wilco have introduced the reissue of their 2004 album, A Ghost Is Born, with 65 unreleased tracks, comprising alternate variations, demoes, improvisations, and outtakes from the period. Out February 7, 2025, through Nonesuch, the reissue is available in two variations—a 9xCD set and a mammoth 9xLP and 4xCD assortment—each of which embody a 2004 dwell album, from Boston’s Wang Heart, and a hardcover guide of images and liner notes from Bob Mehr. Under, hearken to an alternate model of “Handshake Medicine,” recorded at New York’s Sear Sound in 2003. Discover the digital album’s tracklist beneath.
Within the liner notes, Jeff Tweedy informed Mehr of the LP, “I used to be anxious the album was going to really feel like one thing darkish and never me anymore. However the album was forward of me as an individual. It was the a part of me that I used to be making an attempt to protect—enthusiastic and livid in regards to the world, in addition to open and loving. I reached that within the music, earlier than I may get there emotionally alone.”
