Ryan Adams - Whiskeytown - A Stranger Is Born (1996) Unreleased

A Stranger Is Born - The Pre-Strangers Almanac Sessions
This is a rough mix of the pre production sessions Whiskeytown worked on before going to Nashville to cut Strangers Almanac. Bitrate: 128-770 kB/s
Date: December 1996
Location: Captured Live! -- Durham, North Carolina
Modern Recording Service -- Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Personnel: Ryan Adams (guitar, vocals); Caitlin Cary (violin, vocals);
Steve Terry (drums); Chris Stamey (bass); Phil Wandscher (guitar);
Bill Ladd (pedal steel).

Tracklist:

1. Ticket Time
2. Breathe (a/k/a Believe)
3. Wither, I'm A Flower
4. Barns On Fire
5. Street With Sirens (a/k/a Things I Heard)
6. Ten Seconds To The End Of The World
7. Turn Around
8. Everything I Do
9. Losering
10. Theme For A Trucker
11. Dancing With The Women At The Bar
12. Dreams
13. My Heart Is Broken
14. Luxury Liner
15. Houses On The Hill
16. All You Can Feel
17. Further Down The Road (a/k/a Indian Gown)
18. Kiss & Make Up
19. The Rain Won't Help You When It's Over
20. Busted


From the whiskeytownavenues list -- "These sessions produced the double sided 7 inch that was released on Bloodshot and sold at the 1997 WT shows. Its just that this tape represents the working mixes of the songs just as they came off the mixing board. No mastering has been done except that I put a standard EQ on the copy I have when I took it to cd. Being a rough mix, the levels on certain songs are different than others, and you can hear starts and stops between, where songs were put down to tape, and there's some analog hiss . . . but all in all it's a marvelous find! Much closer in feel to Faithless St. than the Strangers record ended up being .........some nuances in arrangement from the final record as well. Notice "Turn Around" especially...it may be my fave."