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Faithless Street (CD)

By: Whiskeytown (Artist)

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Whiskeytown Artist Snapshot:

Along with Uncle Tupelo, Whiskeytown is in many ways the quintessential alt-country band. Flaunting a boozy aesthetic more suited to CBGBs than the Ryman Auditorium, the band nonetheless produced some of the most heartfelt, twang-laden rock songs of the 1990s. With their cult status firmly in place, Whiskeytown parted ways after only four albums, while frontman Ryan Adams went on to have a successful and prolific (though controversial and hit-or-miss) solo career, releasing three albums in 2005 alone.

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DISC 1 for Faithless Street (CD) Album By Whiskeytown (Artist)
1   Midway Park
2   Drank Like A River
3   Too Drunk To Dream
4   Tennessee Square
5   What May Seem Like Love
6   Faithless Street
7   Mining Town
8   If He Can't Have You
9   Black Arrow, Bleeding Heart
10   Matrimony
11   Excuse Me While I Break My Own Heart Tonight - (bonus track)
12   Desperate Ain't Lonely - (bonus track)
13   Hard Luck Story
14   Top Dollar
15   Lo-Fi Tennessee Mountain Angel (For Kathy Poindexter) - (bonus track)
16   Revenge - (bonus track)
17   Empty Baseball Park - (baseball park sessions)
18   Here's To The Rest Of The World - (baseball park sessions)
19   16 Days - (baseball park sessions)
20   Yesterday's News - (baseball park sessions)
21   Factory Girl - (baseball sessions)
 

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Review

Q (9/00, p.135) - Included in Q's "Best Alt.Country Albums Of All Time" - "...The last great alt.country album."
Option (11-12/97, p.138) - "...Whiskeytown writes good songs, the kind you might actually find yourself singing. When they aren't pushing the cornpone...their garage-country has the warm glow of familiarity..."

Title Note

Originally released on Moodfood Records, this remixed reissue contains new artwork and bonus tracks.

Whiskeytown: Ryan Adams, Phil Wandscher (vocals, guitar); Caitlin Cary (vocals, violin); Steve Grothman (bass); Eric "Skillet" Gilmore (drums).

Additional personnel: Bob Ricker (pedal steel); Nicholas Petti (pedal steel, banjo, accordion).

Recorded at the Funny Farm, Apex, North Carolina and at Captured Live!, Durham, North Carolina. Includes liner notes by Caitlin Cary.

Much has been made of Whiskeytown's turbulent, short-lived life and the antics and attitude of its lead singer and songwriter Ryan Adams. But all that falls by the wayside with one listen to the alt-country youngsters' 1996 debut FAITHLESS STREET. Though its antecedents are easy enough to trace (Uncle Tupelo, anyone?), FAITHLESS STREET updates the classic country-rock sound with enough grit and sincerity to make it fresh and vital.

In part this vitality comes from Adams's punk rock background: there is enough muscle and DIY attitude here to spawn any number of front-porch alt-country wannabes. But the real weapon is Adams' songwriting, be it the spiraling melancholy of opener "Midway Park," the waltz-time beauty of the title track, or the serious country perfection of "Matrimony." The musicians--with their weeping pedal steel, steady backbeats, and fierce electric guitars (not to mention Caitlin Cary's fine violin and vocals)--are no slouches either. FAITHLESS STREET deserves a place alongside seminal alt-country albums by Uncle Tupelo and the Jayhawks, which is high praise indeed.

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