Stranger's Almanac

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Stranger's Almanac
Stranger's Almanac cover
Studio album by Whiskeytown
Released July 29, 1997
March 4, 2008 (deluxe)
Recorded Woodland Studios, Nashville
Ocean Way Studios, Hollywood
Genre Alternative Country
Length 51:40
Label Geffen Records
Outpost Records
Producer Jim Scott
Professional reviews
Whiskeytown chronology
In Your Wildest Dreams
(1997)		 Strangers Almanac
(1997)		 Faithless Street
(1998)

Stranger's Almanac (or Strangers Almanac, as listed on the album's sleeve) is an album by the alternative country band Whiskeytown, released on July 29, 1997. Stranger's Almanac was reissued as a deluxe edition with bonus tracks and an additional disc of previously unreleased material on March 4, 2008.[1]

Contents

[edit] Track listing

All songs written by Ryan Adams, except where noted.

  1. "Inn Town" - 5:51 (Adams/Wandscher)
  2. "Excuse Me While I Break My Own Heart Tonight" - 3:14
  3. "Yesterday's News" - 2:49 (Adams/Wandscher)
  4. "16 Days" - 3:54
  5. "Everything I Do" - 4:31 (Adams/Wandscher)
  6. "Houses on the Hill" - 2:38
  7. "Turn Around" - 5:16 (Adams/Cary)
  8. "Dancing with the Women at the Bar" - 4:38 (Adams/Cary)
  9. "Waiting to Derail" - 3:54
  10. "Avenues" - 2:31
  11. "Losering" - 4:00
  12. "Somebody Remembers the Rose" - 2:30 (Adams/Wandscher)
  13. "Not Home Anymore" - 5:54

[edit] Deluxe edition track listing

Disc 1:

  • Tracks 14-18 are previously unreleased live in the studio recordings.
  1. "Inn Town" - 5:51
  2. "Excuse Me While I Break My Own Heart Tonight" - 3:14
  3. "Yesterday's News" - 2:49
  4. "16 Days" - 3:54
  5. "Everything I Do" - 4:31
  6. "Houses on the Hill" - 2:38
  7. "Turn Around" - 5:16
  8. "Dancing with the Women at the Bar" - 4:38
  9. "Waiting to Derail" - 3:54
  10. "Avenues" - 2:31
  11. "Losering" - 4:00
  12. "Somebody Remembers the Rose" - 2:30
  13. "Not Home Anymore" - 5:54
  14. "Houses on the Hill" (Live) (bonus track) - 3:42
  15. "Nurse with the Pills" (Live) (bonus track) - 4:40
  16. "I Don't Care What You Think About Me" (Live) (bonus track) - 3:18
  17. "Somebody Remembers the Rose" (Live) (bonus track) - 2:33
  18. "Turn Around" (Live) (bonus track) - 4:26

Disc 2:

  • All songs written by Ryan Adams, except where noted.
  1. "Indian Gown" - 4:46 (Adams/Wandscher)
  2. "16 Days" (Demo) - 3:13
  3. "Somebody Remembers the Rose" (Demo) - 2:45 (Adams/Wandscher)
  4. "Avenues" (Demo) - 3:34
  5. "Excuse Me While I Break My Own Heart Tonight" (Demo) - 2:43
  6. "Houses on the Hill" (Early Version) - 2:25 (Adams/Cary)
  7. "My Heart Is Broken" - 3:04 (Adams/Cary)
  8. "I Still Miss Someone" (Demo) - 2:24 (Johnny Cash/Roy Cash Jr.)
  9. "Kiss and Make-Up" - 3:31
  10. "Barn's on Fire" - 1:43
  11. "Dancing with the Women at the Bar" (Early Version) - 4:28
  12. "Dreams" - 5:49 (Stevie Nicks)
  13. "Breathe" - 4:07
  14. "Wither, I'm a Flower" (from the Hope Floats soundtrack) - 4:53
  15. "Luxury Liner" - 2:40 (Gram Parsons)
  16. "Theme for a Trucker" (from The End of Violence soundtrack) - 4:29
  17. "Streets of Sirens" - 3:44
  18. "Turn Around" (Early Version) - 4:02 (Adams/Cary)
  19. "10 Seconds Till the End of the World" - 4:15 (Adams/Wandscher)
  20. "Ticket Time" - 3:54 (Adams/Wandscher)
  21. "The Rain Won't Help You When It's Over" - 4:34 (Alejandro Escovedo)
  • Tracks 1, 6, 7, 10-13, 15, 17, and 19-21: the "Barn's on Fire" sessions.
  • Tracks 2, 3, and 5: the "Baseball Park" sessions.
  • All songs are previously unreleased, except for tracks 14 and 16.

[edit] Credits

[edit] Musicians

Ryan Adams - acoustic & electric guitars, singing, banjo, piano, percussion
Phil Wandscher - electric guitar, singing, organ, percussion
Caitlin Cary - violin, singing
Steven Terry - drums, singing, percussion
Jeff Rice - bass guitar

[edit] Additional musicians

Alejandro Escovedo - singing
John Ginty - piano, wurlitzer electric piano, hammond b3 organ, church keys
Greg Leisz - pedal steel guitar, lap steel guitar, mandolin
Curt Bisquera - percussion
Rick Latina - pedal steel guitar
Dan Navarro - trumpet
Crecencio Gonzalez - trombone
Jim Goodwin - alto sax
Jim Scott - percussion

[edit] Production credits

Produced, engineered and mixed by Jim Scott
Recorded at Woodland studios, Nashville and Ocean Way studios, Hollywood
Mixed at Ocean Way studios, Hollywood
Mastered by Stephen Marcussen at Percision Mastering, Los Angeles.

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Whiskeytown's 'Almanac' Bolstered For Reissue", 2008-01-30. Retrieved on 2008-02-04.