5. Whiskeytown - Stranger's Almanac - 1997

I do love this record! I mean love. I picked this up on cd right after hearing Yesterday's News on the radio. I found out that they, like me, were from North Carolina. It was a bit country for me, but I warmed up to it fast. Ryan Adams's song writing was SO mature for a guy at 22 or 23 years of age. Avenues, Houses on the Hill and Somebody Remembers the Rose are standouts on an album with NO weak tracks. This is Americana. This is art. It pains me that I never got to see them live.

This is my 2008 pressing of Stranger's Almanac with bonus tracks. I now have it on vinyl!