Receiver (album) explained

Receiver
Type:Album
Artist:Farmer Not So John
Cover:Receiver.jpg
Released:19 May 1998
Genre:Rock, Alternative country
Length:47:17
Label:Compass Records[1]
Producer:Tucker Martine[2]
Prev Title:Farmer Not So John
Prev Year:1997

Receiver is the second album by the band Farmer Not So John, released in 1998.[3] [4] It was the band's final album.

Critical reception

No Depression wrote that the band "churns out a difficult-to-pigeonhole sound that variously recalls early R.E.M., the first couple of Jayhawks records and the desolate edge of Neil Young’s more brooding efforts with Crazy Horse."[5] The Associated Press called the album "excellent," writing that Farmer Not So John is "one of those impossible-to-classify bands, the kind that the small minds of so many radio programmers cannot make room for and therefore cannot add to their play lists, which is a real shame."[6]

Track listing

  1. "Paperthin"
  2. "Fuse"
  3. "Consigned To Oblivion"
  4. "Rise Above The Wreckage"
  5. "For You I Will Pretend"
  6. "Undertow"
  7. "No Time To Please You"
  8. "Me Too"
  9. "Grand Bouquet"
  10. "Pen Across The Page"

Performers

Farmer Not So John
Additional personnel

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Farmer Not So John - Receiver. www.countrystandardtime.com.
  2. Web site: Receiver - Farmer Not So John | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic. www.allmusic.com.
  3. Web site: Reviews. CMJ New Music Monthly. July 23, 1998. CMJ Network, Inc.. Google Books.
  4. Flippo . Chet . Pop thrives in Nashville . Billboard . May 9, 1998 . 110 . 19 . 1, 81.
  5. Web site: Farmer Not So John – Receiver . No Depression . 23 October 2021.
  6. News: Fidler . Eric . RECORD REVIEWS . Times Union . Associated Press . June 25, 1998 . P39.