Recorded over the course of a four-night span from May 4-7, 2005 at the intimate Vic Theatre in the band's hometown of Chicago, Wilco's Kicking Television is one of the best live albums you will ever have the pleasure of experiencing. Coming after the release of the group's A Ghost Is Born album, the run of concerts put on display the sextet's peerless chemistry and virtuosic talents of guitarist Nels Cline, who hadn't yet played on a studio album. This incredible document gives full credence to why Wilco is often referred to as the best rock band in America.
Drawing from early and mid-period records as well as featuring a handful of Woody Guthrie covers and rarities, Kicking Television functions as a blueprint of what it feels like to be at a life-altering Wilco concert. The band's seamless blend of rock, Americana, blues, folk, country, and artful noise resides at a musical epicenter that perfectly balances traditional and modern sounds. A bevy of instruments--mallets, brushes, treated guitars, exotic percussion devices--complement the group's standard set-up and lead to a courageous mixture of blissful melody, poignant emotion, and passionate expressiveness that improve upon the studio versions of the material.
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Available for a limited time on this gorgeous 180g 4LP box set, which features 8 previously unreleased tracks ("Another Man's Done Gone," "How to Fight Loneliness," "Theologians," "Kamera," "Just A Kid," "Monday," "Outtasite (Out of Mind)," "I'm a Wheel") not available on the CD edition as well as a poster and large booklet. Due to the expert remastering by Bob Ludwig and meticulous vinyl pressing at RTI, the music sounds unbelievably lively, dynamic, spacious, and warm. Hear what it was like to be inside the Vic as history went down.
Do not miss out on this truly amazing set, a music and sonic blockbuster!
Recorded over the course of a four-night span from May 4-7, 2005 at the intimate Vic Theatre in the band's hometown of Chicago, Wilco's Kicking Television is one of the best live albums you will ever have the pleasure of experiencing. Coming after the release of the group's A Ghost Is Born album, the run of concerts put on display the sextet's peerless chemistry and virtuosic talents of guitarist Nels Cline, who hadn't yet played on a studio album. This incredible document gives full credence to why Wilco is often referred to as the best rock band in America. 
