Rural Free Delivery (EP) explained

Rural Free Delivery
Type:EP
Artist:Whiskeytown
Cover:Rural Free Delivery (EP).jpg
Released:May 6, 1997
Recorded:1995
Genre:Alternative country, country rock
Length:24:05
Label:Mood Food
Prev Title:Theme for a Trucker
Prev Year:1997
Next Title:In Your Wildest Dreams
Next Year:1997

Rural Free Delivery is an EP by the alternative country band Whiskeytown, released by Mood Food Records in 1997. It compiles the four songs from the band's debut EP Angels recorded in a single day, with four additional outtakes from the same session.[1] The music was recorded in 1995, just a few months after Whiskeytown formed, but it was released only two years later.[2] This was part of a deal worked out with Mood Food to release the band from their current contract so that they could sign with Outpost Recordings.[3]

The EP contains a hidden track, an alternate mix of "Nervous Breakdown", at the beginning of the CD. To access it, listeners must scan backwards 3:15 from the beginning of the first listed track.[4]

Personnel and production credits

Notes and References

  1. Book: Menconi, David . David Menconi . Ryan Adams: Losering, A Story of Whiskeytown . 2012 . University of Texas Press . 978-0-292-72584-3 . 195–196.
  2. Web site: Whiskeytown – Falling down, standing up: Americana and Roots Music – No Depression. Peter. Blackstock. 1997. 2011-01-03. No Depression. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110925032847/http://archives.nodepression.com/1997/07/falling-down-standing-up/3/. 2011-09-25.
  3. Book: Menconi, David . David Menconi . Ryan Adams: Losering, A Story of Whiskeytown . 2012 . University of Texas Press . 978-0-292-72584-3 . 81.
  4. Web site: Rural Free Delivery (Whiskeytown) Easter Egg – Hidden Track. Janbanan. 2001-11-11. 2011-01-03. The Easter Egg Archive.