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Down with Wilco

album by The Minus 5

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ5303059 ↗
Source-derived summary

Down with Wilco is the fifth album by American rock band the Minus 5. Produced by Scott McCaughey and Jeff Tweedy, it is a collaboration between McCaughey and Wilco, recorded at SOMA Studios Chicago in September and December 2001. Released on Yep Roc in 2003, it also features contributions from Peter Buck of R.E.M., Ken Stringfellow of the Posies, Sean O'Hagan of the High Llamas, with Jessy Greene providing strings. The double-vinyl version adds five songs not included on the CD.

Track listing

All songs written by Scott McCaughey, except as indicated.

Editorial summary

“Down with Wilco” enters the record as album by The Minus 5. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Down, Wilco and album can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2001, 2003—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2003. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Down, Wilco and album.
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Why this record matters

“Down with Wilco” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Down, Wilco and album provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5303059. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2001 and 2003.

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Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Down with Wilco” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.