Wilco releasing deluxe Sky Blue Sky

It’s cosmopolitan courtesy, when visiting foreign lands, to do as the natives do. Sometimes, this means eating monkey brains. For Wilco, poised to embark on a half-canceled European tour, it means pulling an Elvis Costello by going deluxe with a special “tour edition” of Sky Blue Sky, the band’s latest release on Nonesuch Records. True, England itself will miss out on the live experience because of “scheduling conflicts,” but the expanded record will be available throughout the UK (and elsewhere in Europe).

NME writes that the new Sky Blue Sky is due Nov. 12, and features five bonus tracks – all of which will be free to those who live outside the UK and already own the regular old home-country version. Not exactly sure how that’s going to work, but hopefully there is a secret code, undetectable by low-quality pirated .mp3s, buried in one of the tracks. Like, a series of notes just shy of bat call frequency. And you have to translate those notes into number (A = 1, etc.), and then subtract the resulting figure from the number of birds on the album cover.

Anyway, here are the bonus tracks, followed by a list of upcoming and sort-of-far off dates:

Sky Blue Sky deluxe:
1. The Thanks I Get
2. Let's Not Get Carried Away
3. One True Vine
4. Impossible Germany (live)
5. Hate It Here (live)

November
6 - Brussels, Belgium @ Cirque Royal
8 - Barcelona, Spain @ Razzmatazz
9 - Madrid, Spain @ Riviera
10 - Zaragoza, Spain @ Sala Oasis
11 - Bilbao, Spain @ Euskalduna
14 - Dublin, Ireland @Vicar Street
15 - Dublin, Ireland @ Vicar Street
18 - Sydney, Australia @ Enmore Theatre

March, 2008
19 - Brisbane, Australia @ The Tivoli
20 - Byron Bay, Australia @ East Coast Blues Festival
22 - Auckland, New Zealand @ New Zealand Festival
23 - Wellington, New Zealand @ Front Room
26 - Melbourne, Australia @ Palace Theatre

Related links:
WilcoWorld.net
Wilco on MySpace
Nonesuch.com

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