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WILCO / YANKEE HOTEL FOXTROT - This 7-LP Deluxe Edition of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Wilco's 2002 Nonesuch debut, includes the original album, remastered for it's 20th anniversary in 2022, plus 39 previously unreleased tracks-InchThe Unified Theory of EverythingInch alternate album versions plus bonus tracks, a live 2002 concert recording, and a September 2001 radio performance. The set also includes a booklet with an in-depth essay by journalist/author Bob Mehr. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot was widely acclaimed as one of 2002's best albums, appearing in year-end lists of Mojo, NME, Q, Rolling Stone, and Uncut, among many others. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot also was featured in multiple decade-end lists, with Rolling Stone naming it #3 Album of the 2000s, as well as many Greatest Albums of All Time lists, including in the NME. Among Yankee's inspirations was a recording Tweedy bought at Tower Records in the late 1990s, The Conet Project Recordings of Shortwave Numbers Stations. As Bob Mehr points out in his new album note, the record got Inchdeep under Tweedy's skin. Inch Tweedy said in his 2017 memoir, Let's Go (So We Can Get Back), InchIt was as fascinating to me as anything being made by actual musicians using actual instruments... I wanted to know why it was so hypnotic to me. Why could I listen to hours of this stuff, even though I had no clue what any of them were saying. That question became the foundation for Yankee Hotel Foxtrot... The way people communicated or ultimately failed to communicate. Inch The album takes it's title from a haunting recording of a woman repeating those words that is included in The Conet Project; that recording is sampled in the penultimate song on Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, InchPoor Places. InchConceptually, Tweedy had decided to focus on a big idea for the next album the state of America. His lyrics-often distilled from scribbled pages of free verse or
