Label: Nonesuch

Reissued 2/7/2025, Originally released 2004

Nonesuch releases a deluxe edition of Wilco’s 2004 Grammy Award–winning album A Ghost Is Born on February 7, 2025. The box set comprises either nine vinyl LPs and four CDs or nine CDs—including the original album, alternates, outtakes, and demos, charting the making of A Ghost Is Born—plus the complete 2004 concert recording from Boston’s Wang Center and the band’s “fundamentals” workshop sessions. It includes sixty-five previously unreleased music tracks as well as a forty-eight-page hardcover book with previously unpublished photos and a new liner note by Grammy-winning writer Bob Mehr. An alternate version of “Handshake Drugs,” recorded during the studio sessions at New York’s Sear Sound, twenty-one years ago this month, on November 13, 2003, is available now.

Track Listing:

1. At Least That’s What You Said
   
2. Hell Is Chrome
   
3. Spiders (Kidsmoke)
   
4. Muzzle Of Bees
   
5. Hummingbird
   
6. Handshake Drugs
   
7. Wishful Thinking
   
8. Company In My Back
   
9. I’m A Wheel
   
10. Theologians
    
11. Less Than You Think
    
12. The Late Greats
    
13. At Least That’s What You Said (8/13/02 SOMA-Chicago)
    
14. Hell Is Chrome (10/5/03 SOMA-Chicago)
    
15. Spiders (Kidsmoke) (9/28/03 SOMA-Chicago)
    
16. Muzzle Of Bees (7/15/03 SOMA-Chicago)
    
17. Hummingbird (2/8/02 SOMA-Chicago)
    
18. Handshake Drugs (11/13/03 Sear Sound-NYC)
    
19. Wishful Thinking (11/1/03 Sear Sound-NYC)
    
20. Company In My Back (2/8/03 Hothouse-St. Kilda, Melbourne)
    
21. I’m A Wheel (August, 2002 SOMA-Chicago)
    
22. Theologians (3/19/03 SOMA-Chicago)
    
23. Less Than You Think (11/11/03 Sear Sound-NYC)
    
24. The Late Greats (7/19/03 SOMA-Chicago)
    
25. Kicking Television (3/18/03 SOMA-Chicago)
    
26. The High Heat (2/5/02 SOMA-Chicago)
    
27. Panthers (March, 2003 SOMA-Chicago)
    
28. Diamond Claw (3/21/03 SOMA-Chicago)
    
29. Bob Dylan’s 49th Beard (June, 2002 SOMA-Chicago)
    
30. More Like The Moon (2/8/02 SOMA-Chicago)
    
31. Improbable Germany (10/7/03 SOMA-Chicago)
    
32. Handshake Drugs (First Version - 6/26/02 SOMA-Chicago)
    
33. Hummingbird (February, 2002 SOMA-Chicago)
    
34. The High Heat (2/4/02 SOMA-Chicago)
    
35. Spiders (Kidsmoke) (February, 2002 SOMA-Chicago)
    
36. Diamond Claw (March, 2003 SOMA-Chicago)
    
37. Muzzle Of Bees (October, 2003 Sear-NYC)
    
38. Like A Stone (11/10/03 Sear Sound-NYC)
    
39. Leave Me (Like You Found Me) (6/26/02 SOMA-Chicago)
    
40. Losing Interest (11/11/03 Sear Sound-NYC)
    
41. Old Maid (6/26/02 SOMA-Chicago)
    
42. Spiders (Kidsmoke) (August, 2002 SOMA-Chicago)
    
43. Panthers (October, 2003 Sear-NYC)
    
44. Muzzle Of Bees (7/16/03 SOMA-Chicago)
    
45. Diamond Claw (10/9/03 SOMA-Chicago)
    
46. Losing Interest (7/20/03 SOMA-Chicago)
    
47. Spiders (Kidsmoke) (October, 2003 SOMA-Chicago)
    
48. The Thanks I Get (6/26/02 SOMA-Chicago)
    
49. Two Hat Blues (March, 2003 SOMA-Chicago)
    
50. Improbable Germany (January, 2002 Pre-Production Loft session)
    
51. Muzzle Of Bees (Live at Wang Center-Boston, MA 10/1/04)
    
52. Company In My Back (Live at Wang Center-Boston, MA 10/1/04)
    
53. I Am Trying To Break Your Heart (Live at Wang Center-Boston, MA 10/1/04)
    
54. A Shot In The Arm (Live at Wang Center-Boston, MA 10/1/04)
    
55. Hell Is Chrome (Live at Wang Center-Boston, MA 10/1/04)
    
56. Handshake Drugs (Live at Wang Center-Boston, MA 10/1/04)
    
57. Jesus, Etc. (Live at Wang Center-Boston, MA 10/1/04)
    
58. Hummingbird (Live at Wang Center-Boston, MA 10/1/04)
    
59. I’m Always In Love (Live at Wang Center-Boston, MA 10/1/04)
    
60. At Least That’s What You Said (Live at Wang Center-Boston, MA 10/1/04)
    
61. Ashes Of American Flags (Live at Wang Center-Boston, MA 10/1/04)
    
62. Theologians (Live at Wang Center-Boston, MA 10/1/04)
    
63. I’m The Man Who Loves You (Live at Wang Center-Boston, MA 10/1/04)
    
64. Poor Places (Live at Wang Center-Boston, MA 10/1/04)
    
65. Spiders (Kidsmoke) (Live at Wang Center-Boston, MA 10/1/04)
    
66. She’s A Jar (Live at Wang Center-Boston, MA 10/1/04)
    
67. A Magazine Called Sunset (Live at Wang Center-Boston, MA 10/1/04)
    
68. Kingpin (Live at Wang Center-Boston, MA 10/1/04)
    
69. The Late Greats (Live at Wang Center-Boston, MA 10/1/04)
    
70. I’m A Wheel (Live at Wang Center-Boston, MA 10/1/04)
    
71. Via Chicago (Live at Wang Center-Boston, MA 10/1/04)
    
72. California Stars (Live at Wang Center-Boston, MA 10/1/04)
    
73. Christ For President (Live at Wang Center-Boston, MA 10/1/04)
    
74. Fundamental 1 
    
75. Fundamental 2
    
76. Fundamental 3 
    
77. Fundamental 4
    
78. Fundamental 5 
    
79. Fundamental 6
    
80. Fundamental 7

9xCD (1-80) Box Set

9xLP (1-73) / 4xCD (74-80) Box Set 

2xCD (1-31)

2xLP (1-12)