Released Unreleased Artist Whiskeytown Genre Alternative country | Length 43:33 Producer Chris Stamey | |
Recorded Late 1997, Scores/Slackmates, Raleigh, NC, and Modern Recording Service, Chapel Hill, NC Similar Whiskeytown albums, Alternative country albums | ||
Forever Valentine is an unreleased studio album by alternative country band Whiskeytown, recorded between their Strangers Almanac and Pneumonia albums. The album, produced by Chris Stamey, is notable for featuring Ben Folds on piano and ex-Firehose member Ed Crawford on guitar.
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The band quickly recorded the album without their record label knowing about it, since it fell outside of the terms of their contract at that time. In an interview with the Ryan Adams-Whiskeytown fan website AnsweringBell.com, Whiskeytown drummer Skillet Gilmore confirmed this.
Music journalist David Menconi calls Forever Valentine "an interesting yet unfocused record consisting of eleven quite good but quite different songs", citing it as "one of the leading entries in Ryan's catalog of 'lost' albums"; while Steven Hyden of Grantland says that it "ranks with Adams’s best Whiskeytown work".
Personnel and production credits
Songs
1Anyone But Me (Dial Tone)4:18
2Don't Wanna Know Why4:03
3Easy Hearts4:01