Whiskeytown - Strangers Almanac [Deluxe Edition] [2008]

Disc: 1
1. Inn Town
2. Excuse Me While I Break My Own Heart Tonight
3. Yesterday's News
4. 16 Days
5. Everything I Do
6. Houses On The Hill
7. Turn Around
8. Dancing With The Women At The Bar
9. Waiting To Derail
10. Avenues
11. Losering
12. Somebody Remembers The Rose
13. Not Home Anymore
14. Houses On The Hill
15. Nurse With The Pills
16. I Don't Care What You Think About Me
17. Somebody Remembers The Rose
18. Turn Around

Disc: 2
1. Indian Gown
2. 16 Days
3. Somebody Remembers The Rose
4. Avenues
5. Excuse Me While I Break My Own Heart Tonight
6. Houses On The Hill
7. My Heart Is Broken
8. I Still Miss Someone
9. Kiss And Make Up
10. Barn's On Fire
11. Dancing With The Women At The Bar
12. Dreams
13. Breathe
14. Wither I'm A Flower
15. Luxury Liner
16. Theme For A Trucker
17. Streets Of Sirens
18. Turn Around
19. 10 Seconds
20. Ticket Time
21. Rain Won't Help You When It's Over


Album Description
Whiskeytown, the highly acclaimed alt-country outfit, launched the careers of the highly acclaimed singer-songwriter-guitarist Ryan Adams as well as that of fiddler-singer-songwriter Caitlin Cary. Their 1997 major label debut, Strangers Almanac, is to be re-issued in the prestigious deluxe edition format.

Comprising two CDs, Disc one features the original album plus five previously unreleased live public radio performances.

Disc Two features 17 previously unreleased recordings from the pre-production sessions for the album, commonly referred to as the Barn's On Fire sessions.

Intimate acoustic demos of "16 Days," "Avenues" and "Excuse Me While I Break My Own Heart," are included plus several original songs making their premieres in the Whiskeytown catalog: "Kiss & Make-Up," "Indian Gown," "Barn's On Fire," "Streets Of Sirens," "Breathe," "Nurse With The Pills" and "10 Seconds."

Also included are covers of Fleetwood Mac's "Dreams," Gram Parsons' "Luxury Liner," Johnny Cash's "I Still Miss Someone" and an early version of the True Believers' "The Rain Won't Help You When It's Over."