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 a similar landgrab before them with their cover of the Stooges “I Wanna Be Your Dog”, but Whiskeytown take it a [...]

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: Whiskeytown :: Drank Like A River —> Just One More Time
MP3: Whiskeytown :: Yesterday’s News —> Waiting To Derail
MP3: [...]

“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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]