Various Artists - [2003] - Another Country 1 [FLAC]

Review [by Johnny Loftus at Allmusic.com]



Agenda's Another Country drifts much further afield than your average alt.country comp, reveling not in convention but the delicacies and darkness of tangential Americana. It moves diagonally between the post-folk intellectualism of Mighty Flashlight and David Grubbs and through the achy hope of Peggy Honeywell, touching on the traditionalism of Be Good Tanyas and Calexico along the way. In between there's Low's "In Metal" -- a standout from that group's 2001 effort Things We Lost in the Fire -- as well as literate roots material from Chicagoans Wilco, Jim O'Rourke, and Sam Prekop. Scud Mountain Boys' "Silo" could be the most affecting thing here. "I'm gonna shoot the livestock when I go," Joe Pernice hums over a mournful acoustic guitar. The line aptly describes the acrid smoke of finality, human frailty, and love-fueled rage that's always permeated country and roots music; it's the same cloud of dust that hangs over the powerful, introspective Another Country.



Track Listings



1. Don't Bother - Sam Prekop

2. Ghostship In A Storm - Jim O'Rourke

3. Darlin Man - Peggy Honeywell

4. Burn The River Dry - Jim White

5. River Rat Jimmy - Kelly Jo Phelps

6. Dynamite Walls - Hayden

7. Going Nowhere - Len Brown Society

8. Postman - American Analog Set

9. Silo - Scud Mountain Boys

10. Theone - Lambchop

11. War On War - Wilco

12. In Metal - Low

13. Safe and Sound - Hawksley Workman

14. A Dream To Help Me Sleep - David Grubb

15. Ventilating Zephyrs - Mighty Flashlight

16. The Littlest Birds - The Be Good Tanyas

17. Service and Repair - Calexico



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If anyone could make available FLAC versions of 'The Complete Blind Willie Johnson' (2CD, Sony) or the Be Good Tanyas' 'Hello Love' and drop me a line about it I'd be grateful indeed.



Enjoy!