Wilco

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This Chicago, Illinois USA-based Alternative-Rock Country-Rock band was formed in 1994 following the implosion of the fairly well respected alt-Country band Uncle Tupelo, which broke up right around the time they released their fourth album.
Singer + songwriter Jeff Tweedy then decided to start a new band with fellow Tupelo members, bassist John Stirratt, mandolin + banjo player Max Johnston and drummer Ken Coomer, while his Uncle Tupelo bandmate Jay Farrar went on to form Son Volt.

Wilco, with the newly recruited guitarist Jay Bennett, released in spring 1995 its first album, "A.M."; the record wasn't a great departure from the Tupelo's alt-Country style, for instance the first single, "Box Full Of Letters", doesn't deviate from the standard mid-tempo Country-Rock number.

The following year the quintet issued a double-CD called "Being There"; the double-CD set, which showed the new direction of the band, reched the #73 position on The Billboard Top 200 Albums chart spawning the single "Outtasite (Outta Mind)", it peaked at #22 on The Mainstream Rock Tracks and crossed over into the Modern Rock Tracks Top 40 chart.

March 1999 saw the release of "Summerteeth", this was the first album after the departure of Johnston, who was replaced by guitarist Bob Egan, the disc eventually replicated the chart status of its predecessor.

In the beginning of 2001, some major line-up changes took place, former drummer Ken Coomer and guitarist Jay Bennett both left the fold. Coomer was replaced by Glenn Kotche and multi-instrumentalist Leroy Bach joined Wilco who released its fourth studio effort, "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" in April of 2002 on Nonesuch Records; nevertheless, this CD became their biggest album, selling over half a million copies and peaking at #13 on The Billboard Top 200 chart; it included the sprawling, nonsensical "I Am Trying To Break Your Heart" and the alt-Rock radio minor hit "Heavy Metal Drummer".

Keyboardist Mikael Jorgensen joined the group and Bach amicably left during the sessions for the follow-up album to "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot"; subsequently the Chicago-area band announced the addition of two new members to the roster: multi-instrumentalist Pat Sansone and guitarist Nels Cline. Jeff Tweedy and company rededicated themselves to the art of songwriting and the result was gems like "Handshake Drugs" and "Theologians"; their fifth album, "A Ghost Is Born", was released in June 2004, it peaked at #8 on The Billboard 200 Albums chart and earned them their first Grammy for Best Alternative Music Album.

Wilco's next album, "Sky Blue Sky", released in May 2007, was prefaced by the radio-single track "What Light" and hit #4 on The Billboard 200, their best chart-placing to date.
Exactly one year later the band contributed a brand new song, "Glad It's Over", to the "Heroes" original soundtrack.

June 2009 will see the release of a new studio album, their seventh. The disc, entitled "Wilco (The Album)", features 11 new tracks including "You Never Know".

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A.M.

(1995)

1. I Must Be High
2. Casino Queen
3. Box Full Of Letters
4. Shouldn't Be Ashamed
5. Pick Up The Change
6. I Thought I Held You
7. That's Not The Issue
8. It's Just That Simple
9. Should've Been In Love
10. Passenger Side
11. Dash 7
12. Blue Eyed Soul
13. Too Far Apart

 

Being There

(1996)

DISC #1:
1. Misunderstood
2. Far, Far Away
3. Monday
4. Outtasite (Outta Mind)
5. Forget The Flowers
6. Red-Eyed And Blue
7. I Got You (At The End Of The Century)
8. What's The World Got In Store
9. Hotel Arizona
10. Say You Miss Me

DISC #2:
1. Sunken Treasure
2. Someday Soon
3. Outta Mind (Outta Sight)
4. Someone Else's Song
5. Kingpin
6. (Was I) In Your Dreams
7. Why Would You Wanna Live
8. The Lonely 1
9. Dreamer In My Dreams

 

Summerteeth

(1999)

1. Can't Stand It
2. She's A Jar
3. A Shot In The Arm
4. We're Just Friends
5. I'm Always In Love
6. Nothing'severgonnastandinmyway(again)
7. Pieholden Suite
8. How To Fight Loneliness
9. Via Chicago
10. ELT
11. My Darling
12. When You Wake Up Feeling Old
13. Summer Teeth
14. In A Future Age

 

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

(2002)

1. I Am Trying To Break Your Heart
2. Kamera
3. Radio Cure
4. War On War
5. Jesus, Etc.
6. Ashes Of American Flags
7. Heavy Metal Drummer
8. I'm The Man Who Loves You
9. Pot Kettle Black
10. Poor Places
11. Reservations

 

A Ghost Is Born

(2004)

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

 

Sky Blue Sky

(2007)

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

 

Heroes
[soundtrack]

(2008)

INCLUDES:

- Glad It's Over

 

Wilco (The Album)

(2009)

Tracklisting posted on Wilcoworld.net

1. Wilco (The Song)
2. Deeper Down
3. One Wing
4. Bull Black Nova
5. You And I
6. You Never Know
7. Country Disappeared
8. Solitaire
9. I'll Fight
10. Sonny Feeling
11. Everlasting Everything

 

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