O brother.......
> Whiskeytown is
> currently holed up in a
> studio in Woodstock,
> N.Y., recording the
> follow-up to Stranger's
> Almanac.
>
> "This record is as
> realistic as the last
> record was abstract in
> that there's a more
> direct assessment of my fears,"
> turbulent
> frontman
> Ryan Adams says of the new music in
> statement.
> "I'm backing off more now and letting
> the
> music
> convey the emotions I used to depend on
> the
> lyrics
> to spell out. That way I can get closer
> to
> capturing
> the moments that tear me up those
> terrible,
> nostalgic things I'm always arriving at,
> maybe a bit
> late due to excessive verbiage."
>
> Along with Caitlin Cary and Mike Daly,
> Adams
> is
> joined in the studio this time around by
> James Iha.
> The Smashing Pumpkins guitarist has
> joined
> the
> band onstage in the recent past.
> Together
> with
> producer Ethan Johns, Whiskeytown is
> recording
> more than 40 songs at Dreamland Studios,
> many
> of which feature Adams mucking about on
> the
> piano and organ. The record, tentatively
> titled Go
> Bye Bye Music, should be released in the
> late
> summer on Outpost.
