Note: Please be aware of High School Muggles who will eat their lunch in the area, as well as nearby golfing muggles.
Whiskeytown will be mostly remembered as a vehicle for Ryan Adams' (following this record he went on to his solo career), but Whiskeytown was more a band then most reliezed. By 1999 Whiskeytown had been slimmed to 3 members, Adams, Caitlin Cary, and Mike Daly, 1997's Strangers Almanac featured 5 members and was the last to feature founding member Phil Wandscher. This change ushered in a great change in sound. Adams was fond of saying what he envisioned for this album, "those Woodstock albums, like The Band made in the '60s." With Ethan Johns, son of legendary producer Glyn Johns as producer, was was Whiskeytown's “cleanest” record, but not slick, polished but with a little dirty left on the tape. It is a Whiskeytown album after all. Pneumonia sat on the shelf for nearly two years and it was said that over 100 songs were recorded during the 3 years due merger between Polygram and Universal, which ultimately put the album's release in limbo and caused the breakup of the band. The album was bootlegged heavily and gained a reputation as a great "lost" record from fans, before getting released by Lost Highway Records as something of an appetizer for Ryan Adams' breakthrough 2001 album Gold. With good reason, with classics like “Don't Be Sad (co-written with James Iha, ex-guitarist of the Smashing Pumpkins), Bar Lights and The Ballad Of Carol Lynn, front the back, it is a perfect record. Oh, and don't forget "Easy Hearts" listen and you will understand...
Essential Tracks:
The Ballad of Carol Lynn
Reasons to Lie
Don't Be Sad
Sit & Listen to the Rain
My Hometown
Easy Hearts
Bar Lights
This cache is dedicated to Geojorg who gave me the container. When I asked what kind of music I should make this RSA Playlist she said, “Country,” Sorry Geojorg is what you get...