"Yesterday's News" | ||||
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Single by Whiskeytown | ||||
from the album Strangers Almanac | ||||
A-side | "Yesterday's News" (Radio Version) | |||
B-side | "Yesterday's News" (LP Version) | |||
Released | February 1998 | |||
Recorded | 1997 | |||
Genre | Alternative country | |||
Label | Outpost Recordings | |||
Songwriter(s) | Ryan Adams/Phil Wandscher | |||
Producer(s) | Jim Scott | |||
Whiskeytown singles chronology | ||||
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"Yesterday's News" is a song by alternative country band Whiskeytown, co-written by Ryan Adams and Phil Wandscher. It first appeared on Whiskeytown's Strangers Almanac album, and was released in 1998 as a CD single.
An earlier version of the song - recorded during the band's "Baseball Park" sessions - was released on the 1998 reissue of the band's first album Faithless Street. Ryan Adams calls this "the definitive version. It sounds younger and freer than the one on Strangers Almanac, a little bit faster and louder. That was our Big Star phase. I played through a Vox amp at Chris Stamey’s request. Phil put a space-echo on the solo, and he talks underneath me in the choruses. The singing is better on the original... I had just written the song when we recorded it with Chris for the Baseball Park Sessions. The person it was about was still fresh in my mind."
The lyrics of the song mention "The Comet", i.e., The Comet Lounge, a favorite Raleigh, NC, hangout for the band. The bar has since closed.
Track listing
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Yesterday's News (Radio Version)" | Adams/Wandscher | 3:05 |
2. | "Yesterday's News (LP Version)" | Adams/Wandscher | 2:49 |
Personnel & Production Credits
- Ryan Adams — acoustic & electric guitars, singing, banjo, piano, percussion
- Phil Wandscher — electric guitar, singing, organ, percussion
- Caitlin Cary — violin, singing
- Steven Terry — drums, singing, percussion
- Jeff Rice — bass guitar
- Produced, engineered, and mixed by Jim Scott
References
- "Yesterday's News (Single)". AnsweringBell.com. Retrieved 2011-02-01.
- Faithless Street (Media notes). Whiskeytown. Los Angeles, CA: Outpost Recordings. 1998. OPRD-30002.
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: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link) - "Yesterday's News". AnsweringBell.com. Retrieved 2011-02-01.
- Cornell, Rick (2008-03-12). "Burned-out Comet: Music Feature: Independent Weekly". Independent Weekly. Retrieved 2011-01-09.
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