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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 \u003cem\u003eA Ghost Is Born\u003c\/em\u003e – plus the complete 2004 concert recording from Boston’s Wang Center and the band’s “fundamentals” workshop sessions.  It includes 65 previously unreleased music tracks as well as a 48-page hardcover book with previously unpublished photos and a new liner note by Grammy-winning writer \u003cstrong\u003eBob Mehr\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Ghost Is Born\u003c\/em\u003e was released commercially on June 22, 2004, debuting at No. 8 on the Billboard chart. The album, which Mehr calls ‘an eclectic array of dark ballads, upbeat pop songs, Krautrock chug, noise rock freakouts, and roots rock abandon,’ was widely acclaimed as one of 2004’s best, appearing in year-end lists of Mojo, NPR, NME, the Associated Press, The Wire, Rolling Stone, the Village Voice, and Uncut, among many others.  The album earned the band its first Grammy, for Best Alternative Music Album.  The album also won a Grammy for Best Recording Package.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor the \u003cem\u003eA Ghost Is Born\u003c\/em\u003e recording, \u003cstrong\u003eWilco\u003c\/strong\u003e was \u003cstrong\u003eJeff Tweedy\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eJohn Stirratt\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eLeroy Bach\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eGlenn Kotche\u003c\/strong\u003e, and \u003cstrong\u003eMikael Jorgensen\u003c\/strong\u003e; \u003cstrong\u003eJim O’Rourke\u003c\/strong\u003e, who mixed the band’s previous release \u003cem\u003eYankee Hotel Foxtrot\u003c\/em\u003e, co-produced the album with Wilco. 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That’s why, 20 years later, we’re still here and still going.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWilco first began sessions for what would become \u003cem\u003eA Ghost Is Born\u003c\/em\u003e in early 2002 at Chicago’s \u003cstrong\u003eSoma E.M.S.\u003c\/strong\u003e, where they had mixed \u003cem\u003eYankee Hotel Foxtrot\u003c\/em\u003e.  Much of the album was tracked live in the studio with \u003cstrong\u003eO’Rourke\u003c\/strong\u003e and engineer \u003cstrong\u003eChris Shaw\u003c\/strong\u003e.  They also reunited there with engineer and soon-to-be-bandmate \u003cstrong\u003eMikael Jorgensen\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt Soma, the band began sketching out music using Tweedy’s notebooks of lyrics, poetry, and prose. Mehr notes: ‘In between more traditional song tracking, the group would engage in a series of conceptual improvisations in the studio.  These musical experiments, broadly known as ‘\u003cem\u003eFundamentals\u003c\/em\u003e’… were part of what Kotche said was ‘an attempt to search for a new group identity. To see what we could make this band into.’’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the fall of 2003, the band relocated to New York to finish recording at \u003cstrong\u003eSear Sound\u003c\/strong\u003e.  “It seemed like the band needed to get out of Chicago, get out of the working mode they’d been in, and only be thinking about making a record,” O’Rourke told Mehr.  There, playing together in the corner of a large studio, the album began to take its final shape.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEmerging from a period of addiction and rehab, Tweedy discussed how he feels about \u003cem\u003eA Ghost Is Born\u003c\/em\u003e in retrospect.  As he told Mehr, “I was worried the album was going to feel like something dark and not me anymore.  But the album was ahead of me as a person.  It was the part of me that I was trying to preserve – enthusiastic and furious about the world, as well as open and loving.  I reached that in the music, before I could get there emotionally on my own.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Ghost Is Born\u003c\/em\u003e was the second Wilco release on Nonesuch Records, preceded by the landmark \u003cem\u003eYankee Hotel Foxtrot\u003c\/em\u003e. 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