All Hail West Texas (Remastered)

by the Mountain Goats

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bennett first cd i ever bought myself. soundtrack of driving in my car for many summers Favorite track: The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton.

maddi i wish the west texas highway was a mobius strip; i could ride it out forever Favorite track: Source Decay.

slogun This is my all-time favorite album. The writing is absolutely breathtaking!

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- First time on cassette
- Gold metallic shell in a clear case with J-card insert
- Contains only the 14 original album tracks
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1.	The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton 02:36	buy track
2.	Fall of the Star High School Running Back 01:49	buy track
3.	Color in Your Cheeks 02:40	buy track
4.	Jenny 02:51	buy track
5.	Fault Lines 02:38	buy track
6.	Balance 02:02	buy track
7.	Pink and Blue 02:29	buy track
8.	Riches and Wonders 03:58	buy track
9.	The Mess Inside 03:35	buy track
10.	Jeff Davis County Blues 03:14	buy track
11.	Distant Stations 03:04	buy track
12.	Blues in Dallas 04:15	buy track
13.	Source Decay 03:47	buy track
14.	Absolute Lithops Effect 04:08	buy track
15.	Hardpan Song (Bonus Track) 02:00	buy track
16.	Answering the Phone (Bonus Track) 02:28	buy track
17.	Indonesia (Bonus Track) 02:16	buy track
18.	Midland (Bonus Track) 03:15	buy track
19.	Jenny (alt. take) [Bonus Track] 02:52	buy track
20.	Tape Travel Is Lonely (Bonus Track) 02:35	buy track
21.	Waco (Bonus Track) 03:07	buy track

credits

released February 19, 2002

© 2013 All songs written by John Darnielle, Cadmean Dawn (ASCAP). Administered worldwide by Pacific Electric Music Publishing.

Thanks to Craig Stewart for originally releasing this album and for always believing in me: without your faith and goodness this record wouldn’t exist, and neither would any of the other ones that came after it. Craig originally sent out the promos with pages from a very old Texas road atlas enclosed; only one person ever noticed or said anything about it. To the best of my knowledge none of these promos have ever been spotted in the wild, making them the most elusive piece of Mountain Goats ephemera known. Thanks to Merge for restoring this record to a place in the actual physical world, and to Brent Lambert at the Kitchen for being the mastering engineer to whom all other mastering engineers must be compared. Thanks to Alex Newport for the original tape transfer and to John Vanderslice for facilitating it. Thanks to Alyson West at Ravenhouse for navigating the channels that make this release possible. Thanks, finally, from the deepest and truest depths of my heart, to Jeff and Cyrus: for making yourselves known to me, for raising your voices, and for refusing to go down without a fight.

This reissue is dedicated to Matt Fraction, because we are both still here, and who would’ve guessed it.

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the Mountain Goats Durham, North Carolina

John Darnielle has written almost 600 songs now, and some of them are very sad, dealing with hard drugs and tragic ends, hurting yourself and others, sicknesses of both body and brain, off-brand alcohols. They are told in beautiful, unnerving, specific detail because he is a very good writer, and also some of them are just true stories about his own life.
—John Hodgman, 2012 ... more

shows

Jun 22

Henry Maier Festival Park

Milwaukee, WI
Jun 29

Mercury Ballroom

Louisville, KY
Jun 30

The Salt Shed

Chicago, IL
Jul 01

The Salt Shed

Chicago, IL
Jul 02

SPACE

Evanston, IL
Jul 04

Codfish Hollow Barnstormers

Maquoketa, IA
Jul 05

Wooly's

Des Moines, IA
Jul 07

Pablo Center at The Confluence

Eau Claire, WI
Jul 10

The Lyric Oxford

Oxford, MS
Jul 11

Ryman Auditorium

Nashville, TN
Jul 13

The Vanguard

Tulsa, OK
Jul 13

The Vanguard

Tulsa, OK
Jul 14

Liberty Hall

Lawrence, KS
Aug 04

The Rooftop at Pier 17

New York (NYC), NY
Aug 05

Citizens House of Blues - Boston

Boston, MA
Aug 08

Woodland Park Zoo

Seattle, WA
Aug 09

Pioneer Courthouse Square

Portland, OR
Oct 02

Belly Up Tavern

San Diego, CA
Oct 03

The Belasco

Los Angeles (LA), CA
Oct 05

August Hall

San Francisco, CA
Oct 06

August Hall

San Francisco, CA
Oct 07

Ace of Spades

Sacramento, CA
Oct 09

Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox

Spokane, WA
Oct 10

Knitting Factory - Boise

Boise, ID
Oct 11

The ELM

Bozeman, MT
Oct 13

Fox Theatre

Boulder, CO
Oct 14

Gothic Theatre

Englewood, CO

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