The Mountain Goats - All Hail West Texas (Yellow Vinyl)

Limited Yellow Vinyl LP. LP gatefold jacket + full download & bonus audio. The last of the “all-home-recordings albums” by the
Mountain Goats and the only one about which that claim is true, ALL HAIL WEST TEXAS was originally released as a free-standing
compact disc on the late, lamented Emperor Jones. That was about a decade ago. The songs were originally transferred from the
cassettes onto which they were recorded to 1/2” reels at Tiny Telephone by Alex Newport, who also played in Fudge Tunnel. John got
really excited when he realized his tapes were being EQ’d by the guy from Fudge Tunnel. Remastered from those reels, along with 7
unearthed songs from the two surviving contemporaneous cassettes, All Hail West Texas stands as the peak of the Mountain Goats’
home recording era, a time people like to refer to as “when John Darnielle had his four-track,” except John did not actually use a fourtrack. He used the condenser mic of a Panasonic boombox and there was no overdubbing. All songs recorded on the day they were
written, usually within minutes of the actual composition. Highlights include “Jenny,” “Fall of the Star High School Running Back,” and
“The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton,” a song which has compelled audiences around the globe to yell “Hail Satan,” and to
mean it. SIDE A: 1. The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton 2. Fall of the Star High School Running Back 3. Color in Your Cheeks
4. Jenny 5. Fault Lines 6. Balance 7. Pink and Blue 8. Riches and Wonders SIDE B: 9. The Mess Inside 10. Jeff Davis County Blues
11. Distant Stations 12. Blues in Dallas 13. Source Decay 14. Absolute Lithops Effect… Bonus Digital: 15. Hardpan Song (Bonus
Track) 16. Answering the Phone (Bonus Track) 17. Indonesia (Bonus Track) 18. Midland (Bonus Track) 19. Jenny (alt. take) (Bonus
Track) 20. Tape Travel Is Lonely (Bonus Track) 21. Waco (Bonus Track)