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June 9, 2003

Whiskeytown to Reunite

Ryan Adams and Caitlin Cary reviving their alt-country band
January 14, 2002

Ryan Adams Reunites With Cary

Former Whiskeytown frontman joins fiddler on her solo debut
April 20, 1998

No Alternative
August 14, 1997

WHISKEYTOWN

Mercury Lounge, New York, August 12, 1997

Stranger's Almanac (Deluxe Edition)

Like their alt-country peers Uncle Tupelo, Whiskeytown were a short-lived outfit that made primo tunes via two core talents: the sweetly ragged yearning of perpetual train wreck Ryan Adams and the poignant fiddle and harmonies of foil Caitlin Cary. Released in 1997, when Adams was twenty-two, A...

2008 RS: 4of 5 Stars

Pneumonia

2001

Stranger's Almanac

1997

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These whiskey-swilling North Carolina boys brought together the rash fury of punk with the outsider braininess of indie rock and fused them both with the sensibility of classic country -- loping, alienated, spare. In keeping with the punk ethos, Faithless Street is a beautiful mess; it has an immediacy of purpose that blows a fresh wind through with increasingly polished notions of country music....

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