Strangers Almanac

構成数 : 1枚
合計収録時間 : 00:51:40
Whiskeytown: David Ryan Adams (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, banjo, piano, percussion); Phil Wandscher (vocals, electric guitar, organ, percussion); Caitlin Cary (vocals, violin); Jeff Rice (bass); Steven Terry (vocals, drums, percussion). Additional personnel: Alejandro Escovedo (vocals); Rick Latina (pedal steel guitar); Greg Leisz (pedal & lap steel guitars, mandolin); John Ginty (piano, Wurlitzer electric piano, Hammond B-3 organ, church keys); Kurt Bisquera, Jim Scott (percussion). The Pocket Horns: Dan Navarro (trumpet); Crecencio Gonzalez (trombone). Recorded at Woodland Studios, Nashville, Tennessee and Ocean Way Studios, Hollywood, California. Personnel: Jeremy Wilson (vocals, guitar); Ryan Adams (vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, banjo, piano, percussion); Phil Wandscher (vocals, electric guitar, organ, percussion); Caitlin Cary (vocals, violin); Steven Terry (vocals, drums, percussion); Ric Johnston, Alejandro Escovedo (vocals); Patrick Gundran (guitar); Greg Leisz (lap steel guitar, mandolin); Jim Goodwin (alto saxophone); Dan Navarro (trumpet); Crecencio Gonzalez (trombone); John Ginty (piano, electric piano, Wurlitzer organ, keyboards); Jeff Rice (bass guitar); Richard Stuverud (drums); Curt Bisquera, Jim Scott (percussion). Audio Mixer: Jim Scott . Recording information: 1998. Photographers: Marina Chavez; Mark Williams . Unknown Contributor Role: Pocket Horns. STRANGERS ALMANAC was Whiskeytown's penultimate album. The band is still steeped in the sounds of country and Gram Parsons-inspired country-rock here, but one can hear the music moving toward the pop of their final effort PNEUMONIA. Everything still centers around the voice and excellent songwriting of Ryan Adams (who was still only 22 at the time of this album's release). The song "16 Days," for example, with its breezy, open-road, country vibe and the lovely interlocking harmonies between Adams and violinist Caitlin Cary, was released as a single, and rightfully so. There is also the beautiful, melancholic weeper "Dancing With the Women at the Bar," and a revisitiation of "Excuse Me While I Break My Own Heart Tonight," which appeared on the band's debut. Adams's talent shines so brightly here, in fact, that it is little wonder he would soon be pursuing a solo career (the internal tensions in the band would hasten its dissolution as well), but STRANGERS ALMANAC captures this fine, short-lived, alt-country band in full effect.
録音 : ステレオ (Studio)