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WILCO - SKY BLUE SKY (DELUXE LIMITED EDITION CD +

WILCO - SKY BLUE SKY (DELUXE LIMITED EDITION CD + DVD-V)

The Limited Edition Deluxe Version Of Wilco's Sky Blue Sky

The Deluxe Edition includes a bonus DVD, which contains more than 45 minutes of footage of the band performing songs from Sky Blue Sky. The DVD also contains interview segments with all six band members. The film was directed by Christoph Green and Fugazi’s Brendan Canty, the creators of the Jeff Tweedy solo concert film, Sunken Treasure: Live in the Pacific Northwest, as well as the acclaimed documentary series, Burn to Shine.

Wilco’s first studio album in three years, Sky Blue Sky, has been perhaps the most ardently awaited release of ’07. Eager fans had taken to shouting out pleas for information to bandleader Jeff Tweedy during his recent solo acoustic tour, and the web chatter has been virtually deafening. Critic Katie Toms of London’s The Observer addressed fan speculation in an advance review, declaring, with unalloyed delight: “Boy, was it worth the wait.... Simple and soothing, yet rich and rewarding, this is an album you unknowingly yearn for, like a cool hand on a hot forehead. A great album from a band in their prime.” 

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”—the album’s first single—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. This is especially good news for the crowds that will fill the Bonnaroo Festival in Manchester, Tennessee, this June, where the band plays the first U.S. date of its 2007 world tour in support of Sky Blue Sky. 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.   

Wilco Sky Blue Sky Deluxe Edition Track Listing   

CD:
Either Way
You Are My Face
Impossible Germany
Sky Blue Sky
Side with the Seeds
Shake It Off
Please Be Patient with Me
Hate It Here
Leave Me (Like You Found Me)
Walken
What Light
On and On and On

DVD:
Intro
Sky Blue Sky
Impossible Germany
Please Be Patient With Me
Shake It Off
Walken
What Light
Side With The Seeds
Hate It Here
Credits