“I dreamed about killing you again last night, and it felt alright to me.” That’s a hell of a way to begin a song, and a hellish way. The 1996 double-LP Being There had established Wilco as arguably the most talented and ambitious band in alt-country and helped Tweedy escape his reputation as Farrar’s plucky sidekick. He’d married his longtime girlfriend, Sue Miller, the owner of Chicago music venue Lounge Ax, and together they were raising a young son. Rather than sabotaging his music career, the breakup of Uncle Tupelo - his massively influential country-punk partnership with childhood friend Jay Farrar had liberated him to pursue a vision entirely his own. Tweedy wrote the songs that became Summerteeth at what should have been the happiest time in his life. It’s the most gorgeously ornate album Wilco ever made, and also the most disturbing. Summerteeth exists as part of that lineage. Summerteeth, released 20 years ago this week, is Wilco’s contribution to a common trope in pop music history: The prettiest songs are often about the ugliest subjects. (The general vinyl box will also be limited to 6500 copies.) The band’s official store will also sell a limited colour-vinyl edition of the LP box, topping out at 2000 copies. The deluxe Summerteeth features revisited cover artwork with metallic foil packaging by the band’s Grammy-winning art director Lawrence Azerrad. 8 on the Village Voice‘s annual Pazz & Jop poll that year.
While Summerteeth didn’t outsell Being There, it was critically lauded, making No. Most of the tunes were written by Jeff Tweedy and company in the studio, and for the first time, the band achieved their desired sound with overdubs. Recorded through 19 in Willie Nelson’s Texas recording studio and Chicago’s Kingsize Soundlabs – during which, separately, Wilco recorded and released Mermaid Avenue with Billy Bragg, consisting of unused Woody Guthrie lyrics – the follow-up to 1996’s Being There was markedly different from anything Wilco had ever released. A “Slow Rhodes Version” of the title track, included on the outtakes set, Each set features an unreleased live show as well: the CD featuring an extended, soundboard-sourced set at Colorado’s Boulder Theatre recorded on November 1st, 1999 (well into the band’s tour to promote the album), while the LP includes a Tower Records gig in Chicago the week of Summerteeth‘s release, broadcast on radio station WXRT-FM and labeled here as An Unmitigated Disaster.
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The 5-LP vinyl version will not include the Colorado show instead, it will feature “a special, exclusive performance from early 1999 titled ‘An Unmitigated Disaster,’ a previously unreleased live in-store performance at Tower Records on March 11th, 1999, just two days after the album was released.” (Quote via press release.) The show will only be available in the LP set.īoth physical and digital formats feature a brand-new remaster of the original album by Bob Ludwig, plus two dozen previously unreleased demos, outtakes and alternate versions. Sourced from an uncirculated soundboard recording, it features band members Jeff Tweedy, John Stirratt, Ken Coomer and Jay Bennett.” (Press release.) The four-CD version included a remastered version of the original album and “an entire disc of unreleased studio outtakes, alternate versions and demos that chart the making of the album from song writing demos to alternate studio arrangements to finished masters.” (Quote via press release.) The remaining two discs will be dedicated to a never-before-released live show: “The concert took place late in the Summerteeth tour, on November 1st, 1999 in Colorado at The Boulder Theatre, when the new songs had been road-tested and the band was in top form. The updated and expanded edition will come in a four-CD or five-LP set. Wilco have announced that their third LP, 1999’s Summerteeth, will be receiving the Deluxe Edition treatment, set for a November. A 4CD and 5LP edition of the 1999 release, packed with unreleased material, will be issued November 6th.
Wilco’s third album “ Summerteeth” is Rhino Record’s latest offering in 2020’s holiday box set season.
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