Archive for the 'Whiskeytown' Category

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

“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 Wald, Big Ditch Road.
“Do you mean Gram Parsons is dead?” - Larry Oster-Burg (Michael Shannon), Grand Theft Parsons
Historical periods, art movements, ice ages; you’re never […]

Sunday, January 27th, 2008

Come March 4th, Whiskeytown’s second album, 1997’s Stranger’s Almanac, is getting the deluxe, two disc, reissue treatment. This marks the first Whiskeytown release since the post-humous 2001 release of Pneumonia, the band’s final studio album. No Depression dot net has the details — check it out:
“Disc One of the two-disc set will feature […]

Saturday, August 18th, 2007

I recently stumbled upon this old, rough, Whiskeytown demo, from 1995, while gently resurrecting an old hard drive that I hadn’t fired up in a roughly a year and half (also see: upcoming National post).
This version of the song can be found on the Drunken Confessions bootleg collection that gathers up old, rare, […]