While visiting family last week in North Carolina I ran across an old CD-R I’d left there 8 or so years ago, a Whiskeytown bootleg of late 90s studio demos entitled […]
Category: Whiskeytown
Under The Covers :: Nervous Breakdown
If you were to pose the question of what makes for a good cover I would cite Whiskeytown’s late ’90s re-tooling of Black Flag’s “Nervous Breakdown.” Yes, the group’s alt.country forbears Uncle Tupelo pulled […]
Whiskeytown :: Bottom Of The Hill, San Francisco
Whiskeytown :: Bottom Of The Hill, San Francisco – 9.13.1997 Download: MP3: Whiskeytown :: Excuse Me While I Break My Own Heart MP3: Whiskeytown :: 16 Days –> Highway 145 MP3: Whiskeytown :: Midway Park –> Too Drunk To Dream MP3:
Grieving Angel (or, What Happened to alt.Country)
“I saw the writing on the wall, with the Americana movement…I started to see country-western reproduction shirts at the Gap, and once something gets that big, it’s over.” – Darin […]
Whiskeytown :: Stranger’s Almanac (Reissue)
Come March 4th, Whiskeytown’s second album, 1997’s Strangers Almanac , is getting the deluxe, two disc reissue treatment. This marks the first Whiskeytown release since the posthumous 2001 release of Pneumonia , the […]
The Freightwhaler Sessions
Sometime in early 1996, Whiskeytown members Ryan Adams and drummer Skillet Gilmore took some time off after the Faithless Street album to form the short lived alt.country outfit Freightwhaler. Also on board were: Chris Laney (bass); Sloane Doggett (guitar); and Nicholas Petti (pedal steel). These studio-demo recordings are a must have for those interested in early Whiskeytown and/or the burgeoning mid ’90s indie/alt/country scene.