LABEL: OMNIVORE RECORDINGS
VINYL RELEASE DATE:1/14/2022
ALBUM RELEASE DATE: 4/23/2002
VARIANT: BLACK VINYL 2LP

Soundtrack from Academy Award-Nominated actor Ethan Hawkes 2001 film.

The same year of his Oscar-nominated performance in Training Day, Ethan Hawke made his full-length film directorial debut with Chelsea Walls (starring Kris Kristofferson, Uma Thurman, Vincent DOnofrio, Robert Sean Leonard, and more). A fan of Wilco, Hawke approached Jeff Tweedy about scoring the film, and Tweedy agreed.

Around this time, Tweedy had collaborated with musician and producer Jim ORourke (Sonic Youth, Stereolab) for a special live performance. As fate would have it, ORourke had been working Glenn Kotche, and ORourke introducing Tweedy to Kotche would lay the groundwork for the trios work together on the debut album by their band, Loose Fur. Tweedy also asked Kotche to work with him on an improvised soundtrack to the movie he had agreed to score. The relationships moved past Loose Fur and the Chelsea Walls soundtrack. Wilco was in the process of a creative sea change, the result of which would be the modern-day masterpiece, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. Kotche joined Wilco and ORourke mixed Yankee Hotel Foxtrot.

The soundtrack to Chelsea Walls featured improvised instrumentals by Tweedy and Kotche, as well as vocal performances from the films Robert Sean Leonard (whom Hawke met when they both worked on the film Dead Poets Society), Steve Zahn (Reality Bites, That Thing You Do!), jazz legend Little Jimmy Scott, plus contributions from Billy Bragg, and Wilco themselves.

Two decades later, this influential soundtrack returns, not only with two previously unissued bonus tracks, but for the first time as a double-vinyl LP, including an online exclusive colored vinyl variant. (www.omnivorerecordings.com). The bonus tracks include Leonards performance of Wilcos Promising previously only available in the film, and an extended version of Tweedy & Kotches Finale. The packaging contains new photos, new and original liners from Hawke, a remembrance from Kotche, and an interview between Tweedy and Grammy-winning set producer Cheryl Pawelski.

Chelsea Walls is a pivotal piece in the creative development of Tweedy and Wilco as they emerged into one of the most important bands of our time. Critically, it revisits the creative burst that would lead to one of the first true masterpieces of the 21st Century in Yankee Hotel Foxtrot.

TRACKLIST

Opening Titles
Red Elevator
Promising
Franks Dream
When The Roses Bloom Again
Jealous Guy
The Wallman
The Lonely 1
Hello, Are You There?
Softly And Tenderly Jesus Is Calling
Finale
End Credits
Finale (Extended) [Bonus Track]
Promising [Bonus Track]