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Released
  
July 24, 2007

Emerald City (2007)
  
Romanian Names (2009)

Release date
  
24 July 2007

Genre
  
Indie rock

Length
  
38:16

Artist
  
John Vanderslice

Label
  
Barsuk Records

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Emerald City is the sixth album by American singer-songwriter John Vanderslice. It was released in the United States on July 24, 2007; it leaked to the Internet on or around June 23, 2007. The album is named after the nickname of the fortified Green Zone in Baghdad. "I was so beaten down after the 2000 election and after 9/11 and then the invasion of Iraq, Afghanistan," said Vanderslice. "I was so depleted as a person after all that stuff happened, that I had to write my way out of it. I really had to write political songs because for me it is a way of making sense and processing what is going on."

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Kookaburra" (5:30)
  2. "Time to Go" (2:28)
  3. "The Parade" (4:41)
  4. "White Dove" (4:00)
  5. "Tablespoon of Codeine" (5:26)
  6. "The Tower" (4:06)
  7. "The Minaret" (4:27)
  8. "Numbered Lithograph" (2:22)
  9. "Central Booking" (5:16)

Songs

1Kookaburra5:30
2Time to Go2:28
3The Parade4:41

References

Emerald City (John Vanderslice album) Wikipedia