Wilco - Sky Blue Sky (tour edition)

TRACKLISTING: CD1) 1 Either Way, 2 You Are My Face, 3 Impossible Germany, 4 Sky Blue Sky, 5 Side with the Seeds,
6 Shake It Off, 7 Please Be Patient with Me,8 Hate It Here, 9 Leave Me (Like You Found Me), 10 Walken, 11 What Light,
12 On and On and On,
CD2) 1 The Thanks I Get, 2 Let's Not Get Carried Away, 3 One True Vine, 4 TBC (live), 5 TBC (live),

OVERVIEW: To coincide with its forthcoming tour of Europe, Wilco are releasing a special limited edition of its latest acclaimed album Sky Blue Sky. This new edition features previously unreleased material from the original album sessions, including the new single ‘The Thanks I Get’, and two live tracks.  Wilco’s first studio album in three years, Sky Blue Sky, was perhaps one of the most ardently awaited releases of 2007. Sky Blue Sky is as eloquently straightforward as Wilco’s last studio recording, the Grammy-winning A Ghost Is Born, was daringly experimental.  Tweedy’s lyrics deal forthrightly with romantic separation and reconciliation, their bittersweet quality giving way, as the album progresses, to a more uplifting, redemptive mood.  Tweedy quite literally banishes the darkness on the penultimate track, the inspiring, gospel-tinged ‘What Light’ and concludes with a deeply affecting, ‘til-death-do-us-part lullaby, ‘On and On and On’.  There are hints of early-seventies Southern California folk-rock sweetness in the harmonies throughout the band-produced Sky Blue Sky, a bluesy Allman Brothers feel to the guitar/keyboard interplay, and plenty of brash guitar solos that take songs like ‘You Are My Face’ and ‘Shake It Off’ in thrilling, unexpected directions.  Principal songwriter Tweedy cut these tracks in the band’s Chicago studio with members John Stirratt (bass, vocals), Glenn Kotche (drums), Mike Jorgensen (keyboards), Nels Cline (guitars) and Pat Sansone (guitars, keyboards, vocals) - all of whom are also becoming notable performers in their own right.  A Ghost Is Born co-producer Jim O’Rourke returns as music contributor.

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