“A new kind of rock’n’roll”
Together, ROBBIE ROBERTSON, RICK DANKO, GARTH HUDSON, RICHARD MANUEL and LEVON HELM forged a vision of American music, one steeped in its rich cultural history, and whose profound and far-reaching influence can still be felt today. Fifty years on from the release of The Basement Tapes, Uncut invites compatriots, aficionados and heads – including JASON ISBELL, RICHARD THOMPSON, LUCINDA WILLIAMS, ELVIS COSTELLO, VAN MORRISON, MARGO PRICE and STURGILL SIMPSON – to celebrate THE 30 GREATEST SONGS OF THE BAND.

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Decibels Per Minute
Emerging from a period of intense upheaval, uncertainty, addiction and recovery, A GHOST IS BORN was a Grammy-winning artistic triumph, driven by WILCO’s increasingly adventurous sonic shape-shifting and the daunting tribulations of the band’s chief architect, JEFF TWEEDY. As an expanded reissue shines new light on their creative processes, Uncut travels to Wilco HQ in Chicago to unearth the album’s secret history – via outtakes, alternate versions and abandoned recordings. “If you don’t have any kind of struggle in your life, how do you learn anything?” Tweedy aks Stephen Deusner