A new album had yet to be recorded ... The soaring, intricately shaped towers seen on the front cover of Wilco’s Yankee Hotel ...

which almost deep-sixed this album. “I miss the innocence I’ve known/Playing Kiss covers/Beautiful and stoned,” Tweedy sings in the chorus. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is his sweet revenge.

Most notably, the album’s artwork seemed like an ominous prediction of the events to come in hindsight. The front of ‘Yankee Hotel Foxtrot ... the absence of the cover’s twin towers ...

There are many ways Yankee Hotel Foxtrot could have failed. Wilco could have imploded and never released their fourth album. Or they might have released one of the many permutations of the album ...

“Yankee Hotel Foxtrot” looms large as one of ... After performing the album, Wilco played a number of covers and capped off the night with a series of unreleased outtakes from the album.

Myth, it has been said, is the buried part of every story. On April 23rd, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot finally emerges ... Myth, it has been said, is the buried part of every story. On April 23rd, Yankee ...