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The WILCO Book


This is a book about Wilco and the pictorial, literary and musical world it conjures up on record and in performance. Created in collaboration with Jeff Tweedy, Wilco and Tony Margherita, this primarily visual book explores what Wilco does, how it does it, and where it all comes together. The band narrates the book in the form of long captions accompanying a variety of images: a Korean postcard, a Stratocaster, a backstage practice session, and so on. Along the way, central topics such as instruments, touring and recording are covered both in general (i.e., what happens, physically, when a guitar string breaks) and specific to Wilco. Just as the band assembles its disparate talents and inspirations to make music, this book coheres in the end to reveal a 40-minute CD of original, unreleased songs. Just as Wilco experiments with music by turning convention on its head, this book is an utterly new take on the old genre of the rock 'n' roll book. The Wilco Book will look and read like a Wilco record sounds; it's a translation of the band's sensibility from sound into print.


Product details
Publisher: ‎PictureBox, Inc.
Publication date: ‎November 2, 2004
Edition: ‎Har/Com
Language: English
Print length: 160 pages
ISBN-13: 978-0971367036
Item Weight: 2.05 pounds
Dimensions: 8.25 x 1 x 10.25 inches



The Wilco Book is an exploration of the artistic statement presented by the band Wilco. Artwork created by the band, photographer Michael Schmelling, and mixed media artist Fred Tomaselli is interspersed with comments from the band, technicians, and managers, as well as essays by Henry Miller and Rick Moody, and poetry from Bern Porter's collection Found Poetry. Interviews were conducted by PictureBox, who edited and designed the book (which is credited to Wilco and Picturebox with photography by Michael Schmelling). Packaged with the book is a CD of previously unreleased experimental music, which is discussed in the first appendix by Mikael Jorgensen, who produced and played on the sessions before he formally joined Wilco.

Bonus CD track listing
"Pure Bug Beauty" – 7:31
"This is New" – 4:26
"Diamond Claw" – 3:12
"This is New (The Explanation)" – 1:53
"What Good Am I" – 1:23
"Here Comes Everybody" – 2:56
"Hummingbird" – 3:57
"The High Heat" – 2:55
"Doubt" – 1:27
"Barnyard Pimp" – 5:13
"Rottnest" – 1:24
"Hamami" – 2:54