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98-468: Nels Courtney Cline (born January 4, 1956) is an American guitarist and composer. He has been a guitarist for the band Wilco since 2004. In the 1980s he played jazz , often in collaboration with his twin brother Alex , a percussionist. He has worked with musicians in punk and alternative rock such as Carla Bozulich and the Geraldine Fibbers , Mike Watt and Thurston Moore . He leads

196-405: A Peter Sellers film of the same name . The band went through some personnel changes during the recording sessions. Max Johnston left the band because he felt that his role in the band had diminished in favor of Bennett; he had also been replaced by violinist Jesse Greene on one track because the band felt that Johnston was unable to play the part. Bob Egan of Freakwater briefly joined the band in

294-402: A 1990s country rock sound to a current "eclectic indie rock collective that touches on many eras and genres". Wilco received media attention for their fourth album, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2001), and the controversy surrounding it. After the recording sessions were complete, Reprise Records rejected the album and dismissed Wilco from the label. As part of a buy-out deal, Reprise gave Wilco

392-468: A Civil War general, and he voted for Barack Obama twice. He used to say 'If you know better, you can do better.' America-we know better, we can do better." Wilco took 2018 off from touring while Glenn Kotche lived in Finland after his wife Miiri received a Fulbright scholarship. The band announced an end to their performing hiatus and the release of the album Ode to Joy on July 16, 2019. The album

490-518: A capacity crowd at Cicero's Basement Bar in St. Louis , Missouri (the band was billed for the occasion as " Black Shampoo "). During the two hundred-date tour supporting A.M. , Tweedy began to write songs for a second album. The lyrical theme of the songs reflected a relationship between musical artist and a listener; Tweedy chose this topic because he sought to eschew the alternative country fan base. Ken Coomer elaborated: The whole No Depression thing

588-489: A contract. Although Tweedy said that he wanted a more collaborative project than Uncle Tupelo, only his name appeared on the Reprise contract. Tweedy requested songwriting submissions from other members, but only one submission—John Stirratt's "It's Just That Simple"—appeared on A.M. . It was the last song Wilco ever released that was lyrically solely written by a member besides Tweedy. Stylistically similar to Uncle Tupelo,

686-716: A cover version of the Ernest Tubb song "The T.B. is Whipping Me" (released in September 1994 on the Red Hot + Country compilation produced by the Red Hot Organization ), Wilco began recording tracks for A.M. , their first studio album, at Easley studio in June 1994. A demo tape from the recordings was sent to executives at Reprise Records , a subsidiary of Warner Brothers , and the label signed Tweedy to

784-472: A double album at a single album price ($ 17.98 or less). Reprise agreed to this on the terms that they received Wilco's share of the album royalties. It was estimated in 2003 that the band lost almost $ 600,000 on the deal, but Tweedy was satisfied. Being There was well received by critics from several major media outlets, including Rolling Stone . The album reached No. 73 on the Billboard album charts,

882-857: A downloadable version of Bob Dylan 's " I Shall Be Released " that they performed with Fleet Foxes . The MP3 was available as a free download from the band's website in exchange for a promise to vote in the election. The band also made an appearance on The Colbert Report to support presidential candidate Barack Obama . Wilco released a live performance DVD, Ashes of American Flags , on April 18, 2009, to celebrate Record Store Day . In December 2008, Jeff Tweedy, Pat Sansone, Glenn Kotche, and John Stirratt traveled to Auckland , New Zealand to participate in Neil Finn 's 7 Worlds Collide sequel project, The Sun Came Out , joined by Ed O'Brien , Phil Selway , Johnny Marr , KT Tunstall , Liam Finn , and Lisa Germano . They wrote and recorded several new tracks for

980-417: A highly regarded interpreter of other writers’ songs, her Nonesuch debut was distinguished by being her first album to primarily feature self-penned compositions. In the decade that followed, k.d. lang , Randy Newman , Shawn Colvin , and Ry Cooder joined the label as did the rock band Wilco , which released four studio albums on the label, starting with its breakthrough disc Yankee Hotel Foxtrot , which

1078-539: A letter to the editor of the New York Times speaking out against the decision; several noteworthy composers, Elliott Carter and Aaron Copland among them, sent a letter to the vice president of the parent company, Warner Communications, in protest. Sterne was replaced by the founder's younger brother, Keith Holzman, a production chief who, for the next five years, operated the label from Los Angeles. Former Blue Thumb Records founder Bob Krasnow , who assumed

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1176-682: A live double album, and four collaborations: three with Billy Bragg and one with the Minus 5 . Wilco's music has been inspired by a wide variety of artists and styles including Bill Fay , the Beatles , and Television ; in turn the band has influenced music by many modern alternative rock acts. The band continued in the alternative country style of Uncle Tupelo on its debut album A.M. (1995), but has since introduced more experimental aspects to their music, including elements of alternative rock and classic pop. Wilco's musical style has evolved from

1274-531: A popular track for use in movie trailers and commercials. Nonesuch has also recorded the film work of Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood , including writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson ’s Oscar-nominated There Will Be Blood (2007) and The Master (2012). Among other Nonesuch movie soundtrack offerings are Jon Brion ’s score for Anderson’s 2002 film Punch-Drunk Love , Stephin Merritt ’s songs for Pieces of April (2003), Thomas Newman ’s score for

1372-449: A positive score of 79 on Metacritic, while reviewer Josh Modell said that the album is "Wilco's most musically simple and emotionally resonant record in a decade." On Monday, August 14, 2017, Wilco released a single, "All Lives You Say" on their Bandcamp page to benefit the SPLC in memory of Tweedy's father Robert, who died on August 4. Sharing the news Tweedy said, "My dad was named after

1470-639: A recording of Jimi Hendrix performing " Manic Depression " as a defining moment in his decision to become a guitarist. Cline has performed on over 150 albums in jazz, pop, rock, country, and experimental music. He was featured in a cover story by Guitar Player magazine for his work with the rock band Wilco. Cline is married to Yuka Honda of Cibo Matto . Their wedding was in Honda's hometown in Japan in November 2010. They met through Mike Watt when he assembled

1568-666: A significant improvement from A.M. , and placed fourteenth on the Pazz & Jop Critics Poll for 1996. The album's single "Outtasite (Outta Mind)" became the group's first song to enter the Billboard charts, reaching No. 39 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart and No. 22 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. In November 1997, Wilco entered Willie Nelson 's recording studio in Spicewood , Texas to record

1666-404: A subsidiary label of Elektra Records , which Holzman had launched in 1950. In 1970, Holzman sold Elektra and Nonesuch to Kinney National Company , which became Warner Communications and later part of Time Warner's Warner Music Group . In 2004, Warner Music Group became an independently owned, publicly traded company. The 1968 catalogue already listed over 200 albums. During the first years,

1764-568: A third studio album. The album was lyrically inspired by the marital problems of Tweedy and his wife, as well as by twentieth-century literature . Tweedy relied heavily on Bennett to provide music for the singer's "bold, but depressing" lyrics. Wilco recorded several songs, including "Via Chicago" and "She's a Jar", but began working on another project before assembling the tracks into an album. Nora Guthrie contacted singer-songwriter Billy Bragg in spring 1995 about recording some unreleased songs by her father, folk singer Woody Guthrie . Most of

1862-540: A two disc live album recorded at The Vic Theater in Chicago. Released on November 15, 2005, the album received high accolades from Spin , Billboard , and Entertainment Weekly . As of 2007 it has sold over 114,000 copies. Wilco returned to their loft in Chicago to record a sixth studio album in 2006. Influenced by The Byrds and Fairport Convention , the band considered Sky Blue Sky to be less experimental than previous releases. Also unlike on previous albums,

1960-423: A variety of creative fields. As a solo artist, he has also joined the classical ranks of the label, releasing the first of three discs of Bach's Sonatas and Partitas, written for the violin but transposed by Thile for mandolin. Nonesuch has been building a catalog of Broadway cast recordings, including several works by multiple Tony and Grammy Award-winning composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim . The label has released

2058-525: The Village Voice ' s 1995 Pazz & Jop critics poll. Critically and commercially paling in comparison to the reception of Son Volt's album, the Wilco members perceived A.M. to be a failure. Shortly after the release of the album, multi-instrumentalist Jay Bennett joined the band, providing the band with a keyboardist and another guitarist. Wilco made its live debut on November 17, 1994 to

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2156-588: The Oxfam -benefiting album including "You Never Know," "What Could Have Been," "Over and Done," and "Don't Forget Me." Jeff Tweedy co-wrote "Too Blue" with Johnny Marr, and Glenn, John, and Pat play on most tracks on the album. The band stayed in Auckland through January recording for their next album at Finn's own Roundhead Studios . Jim Scott, who was the engineer and mixer for the Neil Finn project, stayed on in

2254-444: The "piece to the puzzle" towards the creation of their fourth studio album. The album was released on May 30, 2000, and was the last release from the sessions. The remainder of the sessions were released in 2012 as Mermaid Avenue Vol. III , also part of Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions . Shortly after the recording sessions for Mermaid Avenue Vol. II , Wilco purchased a studio on Irving Park Road in Chicago, which they named

2352-614: The Billboard classical and world music charts. ) Hurwitz established a jazz roster at the label, which included Zorn, Wayne Horvitz , and the World Saxophone Quartet . He built upon the world music reputation of Nonesuch, represented up to that point by the Explorer Series, with his signing of Brazilian singer and composer Caetano Veloso , who, like Reich and Adams, has maintained an ongoing relationship with

2450-890: The Books , and Vetiver . It also featured non-musical media, such as the Bread and Puppet Theater and comedians Todd Barry , Kristen Schaal , John Mulaney , and Hannibal Buress as well as interactive musical installations by Cline and Kotche. In November 2016, the band also curated their own program during the tenth Anniversary Edition of Le Guess Who? Festival in Utrecht, The Netherlands. This curated program includes performances by amongst others Tortoise , Bassekou Kouyaté , Lee Ranaldo , Fennesz , Steve Gunn , William Tyler , and The Cairo Gang . Wilco's contract with Nonesuch ended in 2010 and they formed their own label. Wilco announced via their web site and Twitter page on January 27, 2011 that

2548-538: The Bottle Rockets to perform, who appears on many of the tracks for Wilco's debut album, A.M. . The group considered retaining the Uncle Tupelo name but decided to call themselves "Wilco" after the military and commercial aviation radio voice abbreviation for "will comply", a choice which Tweedy has said is "fairly ironic for a rock band to name themselves." After collaborating with Syd Straw on

2646-661: The HBO mini-series Angels in America (2007), and Carter Burwell ’s score for the Coen brothers ’ True Grit (2010). The relationship with the Coens has continued with the 2013 release of the soundtrack to Inside Llewyn Davis , produced by T Bone Burnett and the Coen brothers. In the late 1990s, after Elektra underwent restructuring at the executive level, Nonesuch was shifted under

2744-653: The Last Persecution , The Minus 5's Down with Wilco was released in 2003. Keyboardist Mikael Jorgensen , who had engineered Down with Wilco , joined Wilco in 2002 as they toured in support of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot . In November 2003, Wilco traveled to New York City to record their fifth album. The album was produced by Jim O'Rourke, who mixed Foxtrot and was a member of Wilco side project Loose Fur. Unlike Summerteeth and Yankee Hotel Foxtrot , A Ghost Is Born featured songs that were created with Pro Tools before ever performing them live. The album featured

2842-547: The Nels Cline Singers, Nels Cline Trio, and the Nels Cline 4. Cline was named the 82nd greatest guitarist of all time by Rolling Stone magazine in November 2011. Cline began to play guitar at age 12 when his twin brother Alex Cline started playing drums. The brothers developed together musically, playing in a rock band called Homogenized Goo. Both graduated from University High School . Cline cites hearing

2940-487: The Pazz & Jop critics poll for 1998. After the album was released, Bob Egan was replaced by multi-instrumentalist Leroy Bach . After the completion of the Mermaid Avenue sessions, Wilco returned to Spicewood to complete their third studio album, Summerteeth . Unlike previous Wilco and Uncle Tupelo recordings, the album featured a lot of overdubbing with Pro Tools . Stirratt and Coomer were concerned with

3038-885: The Voyager spacecraft. In 2008, one of the first Explorer Series albums, Music from the Morning of the World (1967), comprising early field recordings that the British musicologist David Lewiston had made in Bali in 1966, was added to the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress. Many of the original analog recordings of the Nonesuch Explorer Series albums were remastered during

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3136-539: The Wilco Loft. The band recorded tracks in the studio in early 2000 for a fourth studio album. In May 2000, Jeff Tweedy requested to perform with Jim O'Rourke at a festival in Chicago; Tweedy was a fan of O'Rourke's Bad Timing . O'Rourke introduced Tweedy to drummer Glenn Kotche , and the trio enjoyed working together so much that they decided to record an album as a side project named Loose Fur . Wilco had recorded an entire album of music at this point, but Tweedy

3234-475: The album could not be properly judged just on the first listening. The NPR review also had a positive take on the record. While the NPR reviewer stated that the recording "isn't groundbreaking," they praised its "coherent musical expression" and emphasis on "solid songcraft without pretense" which created a "satisfying and melodically sound album." In anticipation of the 2008 US presidential election , Wilco released

3332-419: The album placed eighth on the Pazz & Jop critics' poll for 1999. After the release of Summerteeth , the band resumed the Mermaid Avenue sessions. Although they had recorded enough material for a second release in 1998, Wilco recorded a few new songs for Mermaid Avenue Vol. II . "Someday Some Morning Sometime," featuring a vibraphone filtered through a space echo , was identified by Tweedy as being

3430-409: The album should be accessible to a general listener, or attempt to cover new musical ground. Unbeknownst to Bennett, Tweedy invited O'Rourke to remix "I Am Trying to Break Your Heart", and the results impressed the other band members—even Bennett. Tensions grew between Bennett and O'Rourke because Bennett wanted to mix every song on the album. O'Rourke cut the contributions of other members on several of

3528-457: The album was released in the spring of 2002. When it was released, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot reached number thirteen on the Billboard 200 , Wilco's highest chart position to that date. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot sold over 590,000 copies, and to date remains Wilco's best-selling album. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot was met with extensive critical acclaim: it topped 2002's Pazz & Jop critics' poll and

3626-477: The album's "breezy atmosphere and pacing," and noted that it is not "easily judged upon first listen." Overall, Hernandez mentioned that it "may be no masterpiece, but at worst it's a more than worthy entry into Wilco's laudable catalogue." Reviewer Greg Locke praised the record as "one of the best albums of the year," calling it a "timeless record, full of sweet, hopeful sophistication and class" and "a lean, mean, soulful album." Like Hernandez, Locke acknowledged that

3724-494: The album. In December 2015, Star Wars was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album . On July 14, 2016, the band released a new single, titled "Locator", as a free download. Four days later, the band released another new single, titled "If I Ever Was a Child", and announced that their tenth album, Schmilco , would be released on September 9. Schmilco earned generally favourable reviews, earning

3822-483: The band as they wrote and produced the record. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is Wilco's most successful release to date, selling over 670,000 copies. Wilco won two Grammy Awards for their fifth studio album, 2004's A Ghost Is Born , including Best Alternative Music Album . Wilco released their thirteenth studio album, Cousin , in September 2023. Wilco was formed following the breakup of the influential alternative country music group Uncle Tupelo . Singer Jay Farrar quit

3920-646: The band freely distributed a cover of Woody Guthrie's " The Jolly Banker ", downloadable from their website. It was recorded at the Wilco loft in February of that year, at the suggestion of Guthrie's daughter, Nora . Those downloading the album were encouraged to donate to the Woody Guthrie Foundation . Feist returned to accompany on the track, playing the Garden Weasel . The track eventually became unavailable for download. In October 2011,

4018-440: The band in 1994 because of a soured relationship with co-singer Jeff Tweedy . Both Tweedy and Farrar immediately sought to form bands after the breakup, with Farrar organizing Son Volt . Tweedy's new band included all current members of Uncle Tupelo lineup sans Farrar, including bassist John Stirratt, drummer Ken Coomer , and multi-instrumentalist Max Johnston . He even enlisted Uncle Tupelo guest guitarist Brian Henneman of

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4116-497: The band streamed it in MPEG-4 form on Apple 's website. Wilco decided to substantially change their lineup after Bach's departure adding Pat Sansone of The Autumn Defense , and avant-garde guitarist Nels Cline to the lineup. Just as the band was about to tour to promote the album, Tweedy checked himself into a rehabilitation clinic in Chicago for an addiction to opioids . As a result, tour plans for Europe were canceled, and

4214-605: The biggest-selling disc in the label's history and spawned many successful solo recordings from the stars of those original Ry Cooder -led sessions in Havana, Cuba. In 1994, Hurwitz hired David Bither, the Senior Vice President and General Manager of Elektra Records, to head the international department at Nonesuch Records. But Bither quickly showed a far greater interest and talent in A&;R and, soon after coming to

4312-530: The book by Michael Cunningham . Mishima was also the first Nonesuch album from now longtime Nonesuch artists Kronos Quartet . Kronos went on to collaborate with British composer Clint Mansell on his scores for the Darren Aronofsky films Requiem for a Dream (2000), The Fountain (2006), and Noah (2014); the Requiem soundtrack included the piece " Lux Aeterna ," which subsequently became

4410-732: The cast recordings of several Broadway revivals of Sondheim's musicals. Among them are the 1998 production of Gypsy (music by Jule Styne , lyrics by Sondheim); 2002's Into the Woods ; 2010's A Little Night Music ; and Irish director John Doyle's reimaginings of Sweeney Todd (2006) and Company (2007). The label also released the soundtrack to Tim Burton ’s film adaptation of Sweeney Todd , starring Johnny Depp , in 2007. Nonesuch has also released recordings of less well-known Sondheim works like Saturday Night (his first) and The Frogs , as well as first recordings of his new musical Bounce and its later incarnation, Road Show . From

4508-719: The chairmanship of Elektra Records in 1983, brought in the 34-year-old Bob Hurwitz in 1984, at the time the head of the US division of the Warner Bros. Records -distributed jazz label ECM Records , to run Nonesuch Records. Within the first two years under Hurwitz's leadership, Nonesuch released albums by such "new music" pioneers as Steve Reich ( The Desert Music , 1985), John Adams ( Harmonielehre , 1986), Philip Glass ( Mishima , 1985), John Zorn ( The Big Gundown , 1985), and Kronos Quartet ( Kronos Quartet , 1986). (Kronos Quartet's 1992 album Pieces of Africa topped both

4606-434: The commercial release of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot , Wilco agreed to support R.E.M. collaborator Scott McCaughey for an album release by The Minus 5 . They scheduled a recording session for September 11, 2001, but were distraught about the 9/11 terrorist attacks that day. Later that day, Wilco and McCaughey agreed to "create something good in the world right now" and record some material. Influenced by Bill Fay 's Time of

4704-427: The creation of A Ghost Is Born . The book also contains writings and drawings from band members, as well as a CD with demos from the A Ghost Is Born recording sessions. Also that year, Chicago Tribune music critic Greg Kot released a biography of the band entitled Wilco: Learning How to Die . The new six-piece Wilco lineup, which has remained intact ever since, debuted on Kicking Television: Live in Chicago ,

4802-444: The creative process for the purpose of exploration or redemption, or whatever it is you're looking for. During 1999, Warner Brothers was looking to help repay a $ 16 billion debt acquired during the recent merger of parent company Warner Communications with Time Inc. As a result, Warner's imprints were under pressure to produce musical acts that would yield hit records. The head of Reprise, Howie Klein , who had previously authorized

4900-657: The entirety of the album on its website prior to release. The album hit the charts at a career-high No. 4 with sales of 99,000 on the Billboard Top 200 Album chart as well as the No. 2 spot on Billboard's Top Rock Albums chart. It marked Wilco's third top 10 album on the U.S. pop chart. The album's first single "You Never Know" reached the No. 1 spot on the AAA Chart, their first No. 1 in twelve years. Beginning in April 2009,

4998-625: The first electronic work to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1970. Under Sterne, Nonesuch helped spark a ragtime revival in the United States with the release of a series of Scott Joplin piano rags performed by Joshua Rifkin . Sterne also launched the groundbreaking Explorer Series, building the foundation for the field of world music. Sterne's abrupt termination in December 1979 prompted some two dozen Nonesuch artists to write

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5096-441: The focus was clearly set on early music, i.e. music that was composed before 1800. Some artists were frequently appearing: There was some later music as well. Günter Wand conducted Ludwig van Beethoven 's Missa solemnis , Carl Schuricht conducted Anton Bruckners 7th Symphony , and Pierre Boulez with Orchestre National de la R.T.F played The Rite of Spring . Teresa Sterne led Nonesuch Records from 1965 until 1979; she

5194-543: The group Floored by Four . Cline joined Honda as a guest guitarist in the Yoko Ono Plastic Ono band for their tour in 2010. Cline joined Honda and her band Cibo Matto at the 2015 Solid Sound Festival. With Acoustic Guitar Trio With Banyan With Quartet Music With Wilco With other bands Wilco Wilco is an American rock band based in Chicago . The band was formed in 1994 by

5292-635: The label for decades. Among Nonesuch world-music successes during the 1980s was the release of Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares , a recording of the Bulgarian State Television female choir, and the American debut of the Gipsy Kings , which was certified platinum with over one million in sales. Nonesuch enjoyed even greater success on the world music front in the late 1990s with the release of Buena Vista Social Club , which became

5390-421: The label with Hurwitz in 2016 and sole president in 2017. Kris Chen, formerly of XL Recordings, was hired as senior vice president in September 2016. In March 2017, it was announced that the band Fleet Foxes would make its Nonesuch debut with the release of Crack-Up , its first album in six years, that June. In the late 1960s, the Explorer Series made the label a pioneer in the field of world music before

5488-524: The label's regret over Wilco. We are living in the golden age of that being such a public mistake. The people on Warners said, "we'll never have a band like Wilco feel we don't believe in them again." They'd tell me that it would never happen to us. And what a great day for me! As the band searched for a new label to release the album, they decided to stream it on their official website to discourage illegal trading of low-quality MP3s . The band signed with Nonesuch Records , another Time Warner subsidiary, and

5586-488: The label, as well as iconoclastic folk interpreter Sam Amidon . The Chocolate Drops, a group exploring the African-American roots of old-time music, won a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album for its Nonesuch debut, Genuine Negro Jig . Mandolinist and composer Chris Thile of Punch Brothers was named a 2012 MacArthur Fellow , receiving one of 23 “genius” grant awards to extraordinary practitioners in

5684-466: The label, made a number of important signings that expanded the company's musical landscape while holding to the same ideals that had been long established from the company's earliest days. Bither's first signing, Emmylou Harris , signaled a new direction for the label. Harris, previously signed to Warner Bros. Records and Elektra Records, whose 2000 album Red Dirt Girl garnered a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album . Though she had long been

5782-403: The masters for a reported $ 50,000" after Wilco was "unwilling to change the album to make it more 'commercially viable'." In a last-minute decision, the label freed Wilco from their contract and gave them the album at no charge. Curbing the negative publicity, Warner Music Group began to invest more in bands including The Flaming Lips . Lead singer Wayne Coyne remarked: We are benefiting from

5880-402: The most notable achievements of Sterne's time at the label were the release of George Crumb 's Ancient Voices of Children , inspired by the poems of Federico García Lorca , which sold more than 70,000 units; the recording of new works by Elliott Carter , including his first and second string quartets; and the commissioning and release of Charles Wuorinen 's Time's Encomium , which became

5978-478: The music on A.M. was considered to be straightforward alternative country rock in what Tweedy later described as "trying to tread some water with a perceived audience." A.M. peaked at number twenty-seven on the Billboard Heatseekers chart, considerably lower than the debut album of Jay Farrar's new band, Son Volt . The album was met with modest reviews though it would rank thirty-fourth in

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6076-467: The new label will be called dBpm Records (Decibels per Minute) and will be run out of the offices of their manager, Tony Margherita, in Easthampton, Massachusetts . Wilco's released their eighth studio album, The Whole Love , on September 27, 2011. The first single of the album is titled "Art of Almost". The B-Side to "I Might" is a cover of Nick Lowe's 1977 song " I Love My Label ". The single

6174-415: The new mixes on the album. The two parties were unable to establish a promotional tour and quarreled over royalties and guest musician fees. Despite these conflicts, the album was released on June 23, 1998, and sold over 277,000 copies. The album received rave reviews from Robert Christgau and Rolling Stone , and was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album . It also placed fourth on

6272-626: The next generation of composers, Adam Guettel has made three recordings for Nonesuch: the cast recording of his first musical, Floyd Collins (1996), the Original Cast Recording of his Tony Award-winning The Light in the Piazza ; and his song cycle Myths and Hymns (earlier mounted off Broadway under the title Saturn Returns ). Among the champions of Adam Guettel's work is five-time Tony Award-winning singer and actress Audra McDonald , who has showcased his compositions, among

6370-672: The original recording of his collaboration with Fatboy Slim , Here Lies Love . That recounting of the life and loves of former Filipino leader Imelda Marcos , was turned into an Off-Broadway musical at The Public Theater in the spring of 2013. Among more recent Nonesuch signings, the most commercially successful has been The Black Keys , the former Akron, Ohio-based duo who parlayed cult status as no-frills blues rockers into an arena-sized following and received multiple Grammy Awards for their 2010 album Brothers and their 2012 release El Camino . Forward-thinking traditional groups Carolina Chocolate Drops and Punch Brothers also joined

6468-409: The president of Reprise Records. David Kahne became the interim head of Reprise. Kahne assigned Mio Vukovic to monitor the progress of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and to offer suggestions. Music journalist Greg Kot claims that Vukovic disliked the album and was unhappy that Wilco ignored his suggestions. He brought the album to Kahne, who felt that there was no single on the album. In June 2001, the album

6566-410: The production, since it reduced their involvement in the music. According to Stirratt: The story of Summerteeth is Jay bought a Mellotron and he was going to use it, no matter what. It was lovely, but it was overdone. Once they got going on the overdubs, they didn't stop. And nobody in the band stepped up to stop the madness ... It reminds me of Heart of Darkness , where you knowingly extend

6664-402: The record comes off at times as dull, and forced." A review in allaboutjazz also had mixed comments. While praising the album as "deceptively insinuating, almost intoxicating to listen to" and noting its "impeccable sound quality," the review said that " Sky Blue Sky becomes the first Wilco album that sounds too careful for its own good." Pabs Hernandez, a reviewer for Lost at Sea , praised

6762-466: The record if I didn't think it was great ... I wanted to make an album about identity, and within that is the idea of a higher power, the idea of randomness, and that anything can happen, and that we can't control it. Leroy Bach left the band immediately after the album's completion to join a music theatre operation in Chicago. Like Yankee Hotel Foxtrot , Wilco streamed the album online before its commercial release. Instead of using their own web page,

6860-413: The release date for the album was set back several weeks. A Ghost Is Born was released on June 22, 2004, and became Wilco's first top ten album in the U.S. The album earned Wilco Grammy Awards for Best Alternative Music Album and Best Recording Package in 2005. It also placed thirteenth on 2004's Pazz & Jop Critics Poll. In 2004, the band released The Wilco Book , a picture book detailing

6958-616: The release of Being There as a double album, was willing to let Wilco produce Summerteeth without label input. When Klein played the album for Reprise's A&R department, however, they demanded a radio single for the album. Wilco agreed to do this "once and once only" and recorded a radio-friendly version of "Can't Stand It" at the request of David Kahne , the head of the A&R department. The single version of "Can't Stand It" failed to cross over from Triple-A radio to alternative rock stations. The album sold only 200,000 copies, significantly less than Being There despite critical acclaim;

7056-513: The remaining members of alternative country group Uncle Tupelo after singer Jay Farrar 's departure. Wilco's lineup changed frequently during its first decade, with only singer Jeff Tweedy and bassist John Stirratt remaining from the original incarnation. Since early 2004 the lineup has been unchanged, consisting of Tweedy, Stirratt, guitarist Nels Cline , multi-instrumentalist Pat Sansone , keyboard player Mikael Jorgensen , and drummer Glenn Kotche . Wilco has released thirteen studio albums,

7154-417: The rights to the album for free. After streaming Foxtrot on its website, Wilco sold the album to Nonesuch Records in 2002. Both record labels are subsidiaries of Warner Music Group , leading a critic to say the album showed "how screwed up the music business is in the early twenty-first century." The event was immortalized in the documentary I Am Trying to Break Your Heart ; director Sam Jones followed

7252-406: The same capacity for the Wilco sessions. Nels Cline and Mikael Jorgensen later added overdubs to the tracks at the band's Chicago Loft. Wilco released their seventh album, Wilco (The Album) , on June 30, 2009. In March 2009, it was announced that singer-songwriter Feist would make a guest appearance on the new album, on the track "You and I". As with their previous three albums, Wilco streamed

7350-408: The same price as a trade paperback", which would be half the price of a normal LP. To achieve this, he licensed European recordings of classical music as it would be too expensive to record new material. Originally the label concentrated heavily on chamber and baroque music , often with (then) unique repertory, and typically sold at less-than-premium prices. Upon its formation, Nonesuch operated as

7448-687: The scores of Philip Glass . His first Nonesuch recording, the soundtrack to Paul Schrader ’s Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters in 1984, began a decades-long relationship with the label that would include several stand-out soundtracks, like those of Godfrey Reggio ’s wordless films Powaqqatsi and Koyaanisqatsi , the Errol Morris documentary The Thin Blue Line , Martin Scorsese ’s 1997 film Kundun , and The Hours , based on

7546-521: The song "Less Than You Think", which included a fifteen-minute track of electronic noises and synthesizers, which Tweedy called "the track that everyone will hate". Tweedy justified the inclusion of the song: I know ninety-nine percent of our fans won't like that song, they'll say it's a ridiculous indulgence. Even I don't want to listen to it every time I play through the album. But the times I do calm myself down and pay attention to it, I think it's valuable and moving and cathartic. I wouldn't have put it on

7644-559: The songs were created as collaborations. Wilco streamed the album online on March 3, 2007, and offered the song "What Light" as a free MP3 download. Further publicizing the album, Wilco licensed several songs from the Sky Blue Sky recording sessions for use in a Volkswagen advertising campaign. The move was criticized by both critics and fans; Wilco responded by noting that they had previously done advertising campaigns with Apple Inc. and Telefónica Móviles (Movistar) . The album

7742-472: The songs were written by Guthrie when he performed them on tour, so he decided to record the album with another band. Bragg contacted Tweedy and Bennett about co-recording the album while Wilco was on the European segment of their Being There tour. Bragg was particularly fond of Being There because their influences extended farther back than the 1950s. Although Tweedy was indifferent to the offer, Bennett

7840-520: The songs were written late in Guthrie's life when he was unable to record due to the motor impairments of Huntington's disease . By the 1990s, Woody Guthrie had become a "relic" to the MTV generation , and Nora sought to establish a different legacy for the musician. To Nora, Bragg was "the only singer I knew taking on the same issues as Woody." Bragg was concerned, however, that his fans would not realize that

7938-610: The songs; some songs, such as "Poor Places", only featured the Loose Fur trio. The album was completed in 2001, and Bennett was dismissed from the band immediately afterwards. The recording of the album was documented by Sam Jones and released in 2002 as the film I Am Trying to Break Your Heart: A Film About Wilco . Time Warner, which owned Warner Bros. Records, merged with America Online in 2001, leading to more pressure on Warner's record labels to cut costs. Over 600 employees of Warner Music Group were fired, including Howie Klein,

8036-864: The studio to take part in Beck's Record Club project, covering Skip Spence 's Oar album. The first song "Little Hands" was posted on Beck's website on November 12, 2009. On April 6, 2010, Wilco announced during their Boston performance that they would be headlining and curating a festival in North Adams , Massachusetts , dubbed Solid Sound Festival. The event ran at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art from August 13–15, and featured various Wilco side projects, including The Autumn Defense, Pronto, The Nels Cline Singers , and Jeff Tweedy solo. Other bands who appeared included Mavis Staples , Avi Buffalo , Outrageous Cherry , Richard Bishop ,

8134-547: The studio, playing pedal steel guitar on "Far, Far Away" and "Dreamer in My Dreams", and then became an official member in September 1996. Unlike the A.M. recording sessions, the band had no desire to produce a hit song from their second effort. The recording sessions produced nineteen songs, too many for a single album release. Tweedy was concerned about the high retail price that a double album would be sold for (at least $ 30), so he asked Reprise Records to release it as

8232-614: The term had even been coined. The series, which Nonesuch released from 1967 to 1984, consisted of field recordings made primarily in Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, Central and South America, and Eastern Europe. For American non-travelers, it was the first exposure to musical idioms such as music produced by a gamelan . In 1977, a few of the recordings were chosen for the Voyager Golden Record , and sent into outer space aboard

8330-550: The umbrella of Warner Music International. In the early 2000s, Nonesuch briefly operated under Atlantic Records , and has operated under Warner Bros. Records since in 2004. In September 2015, it was announced that Bob Hurwitz would step down as president of Nonesuch Records. After serving as co-president of the label with David Bither in 2016, Hurwitz became the chairman emeritus on January 1, 2017, when Bither became sole president. David Bither, who had served as senior vice president of Nonesuch for 20 years, became co-president of

8428-492: The website began streaming the track via a plugin . On May 25, 2009, former band member Jay Bennett died in his home in Urbana, Illinois . In a prepared statement, Jeff Tweedy said that he was "deeply saddened" by Bennett's death. Feist and Wilco performed "You and I" on Late Show with David Letterman on July 14, 2009. In June during their West Coast tour, Wilco joined Beck , Feist, Jamie Lidell and James Gadson in

8526-551: The works of a number of other contemporary composers, on her 1998 Nonesuch solo debut album, Way Back to Paradise , and later recordings How Glory Goes (2000), Build a Bridge (2006), and Go Back Home (2013). Her 2002 album Happy Songs featured music of the 1930s and ’40s by songwriters like Harold Arlen, Irving Berlin, and the Gershwins. As with its catalog of Broadway cast recordings, Nonesuch has assembled an equally selective roster of movie soundtracks, chief among them

8624-441: Was enthused about recording songs with one of his idols—Bennett's previous band Titanic Love Affair was named after a Billy Bragg lyric. A recording contract between Bragg and Wilco was signed after a show at Shepherd's Bush Empire . Bragg mostly recorded the politically charged lyrics, while Tweedy preferred to record lyrics that showcased Guthrie as a "freak weirdo." The recording of Mermaid Avenue began on December 12, 1997, and

8722-408: Was funny to us because people seemed to forget that Jeff was a bigger punk-rock fan than a country fan. It led to things like us all switching instruments on "Misunderstood," where I'm playing guitar. Wilco recorded a number of songs with this theme, including "Sunken Treasure" and "Hotel Arizona." Wilco also recorded a number of songs in the style of A.M. Wilco named the album Being There after

8820-468: Was named one of the 100 greatest albums of all time by Q Magazine . Rolling Stone rated it at 493 of their 500 Greatest Albums of all Time, in May 2012. In the 2020 reboot of the list, its ranking was raised to #225. In September 2022 the band released a variety of reissues of the album, including an 11-LP "Super Deluxe" version. The reissue won a Grammy for Best Historical Album. While waiting for

8918-466: Was rejected by Reprise and Wilco was asked to leave the label. Wilco managed to negotiate a buy-out from Reprise. Music journalist Greg Kot claims that instead of financial compensation, the band agreed to leave the label with the master tapes of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot . The label was already receiving bad publicity for its treatment of the band and were willing to accommodate Wilco's request. However, AllMusic claims "Warner/ Reprise agreed to sell them

9016-437: Was released on May 15, 2007, and was a commercial success: it sold over 87,000 copies in its first week and peaked in the top five in the U.S. album charts. It was a top forty hit in seven other countries. Reviewer James Brubaker says that Wilco "shine[s] on a handful of the songs" on Sky Blue Sky , such as the "light, and straightforward" songs. While he calls it a "great traditional rock and folk album at times,...the rest of

9114-401: Was released on Nonesuch after it was rejected by Reprise Records . Laurie Anderson has put out three discs with the label, and Nonesuch reissued her seminal Big Science album, an avant-garde project that became an unlikely pop hit in 1982. David Byrne released a solo album, Grown Backwards , on the label, as well as a live concert album with Caetano Veloso, Live at Carnegie Hall, and

9212-495: Was released on October 4, 2019 and received generally positive reviews with Will Hermes of Rolling Stone calling it their "best in years" and delivers "something like love shines through, and it winds up sounding joyful indeed, in a hard-won way." The album won the Grammy Award for best Special Limited Edition Package. Nonesuch Records Nonesuch was founded in early 1964 by Jac Holzman to produce "fine records at

9310-658: Was responsible not only for all of the artists & repertory decisions but also for overseeing the increasingly distinctive look of the record jackets. Sterne oversaw several firsts for the label, including early electronic releases. Nonesuch commissioned Morton Subotnick 's 1967 album Silver Apples of the Moon (made on the Buchla 100 ), and in 1966 released a 2-LP set of Moog sounds with 16-page booklet called The Nonesuch Guide to Electronic Music by Beaver & Krause (which spent 26 weeks in Billboard's Top 100 chart). Among

9408-425: Was shown at the Wilco's 2011 Solid Sound Festival at MassMoca and was met by positive reviews. The entire album was streamed live on Wilco's official website for 24 hours between September 3 and 4, 2011. Wilco's released their ninth studio album, Star Wars , on July 16, 2015 as a surprise free download . In October 2015, Wilco announced that they would embark on a U.S. tour beginning in early 2016 in support of

9506-540: Was the topic of BBC 's Man in the Sand documentary film. Tempers flared between Bragg and Wilco after the album was completed. Bennett believed that Bragg was overproducing his songs, a sharp contrast to Wilco's sparser contributions. Bennett called Bragg about the possibility of remixing Bragg's songs, to which Bragg responded "you make your record, and I'll make mine..." Eventually Bragg sent copies of his recordings to Chicago for Bennett to remix, but Bragg refused to use

9604-540: Was unhappy with the drum parts. He enjoyed Kotche's contributions to Loose Fur so much that Tweedy brought him into the studio to re-record some demos. Some believe that Tweedy sought to make Wilco sound like Loose Fur after officially replacing Ken Coomer with Kotche in January 2001. Although Bennett sought to be the mixer and engineer for Yankee Hotel Foxtrot , Tweedy was unsure of Bennett's abilities compared to O'Rourke. Tweedy and Bennett frequently argued over whether

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