Chester (album)

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Chester
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EP by
Josh Rouse, Kurt Wagner
ReleasedSeptember 14, 1999 [US]
Genre Folk music,
Indie rock
Label Slow River
Josh Rouse, Kurt Wagner chronology
Dressed Up Like Nebraska
(1998)
Chester
(1999)
Home
(2000)
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Chester is an EP by the indie folk musician Josh Rouse and the Lambchop member Kurt Wagner. It was released in September 1999 by Slow River Records. Recorded and engineered by David Henry at True Tone Studios in Nashville, Tennessee personnel includes Rouse providing vocals, guitar, and melodica, Kurt Wagner on vibes and additional ambient noises, Sharon Gilchrist on upright bass, Malcolm Travis on drums, David Henry adding cello and background vocals, with Dennis Cronin on trumpet and Curt Perkins on Rhodes piano.

Track listing

  1. "Somehow You Could Always Tell" — 2:55
  2. "That's What I Know" — 3:31
  3. "Table Dance" — 6:10
  4. "65" — 3:28
  5. "I Couldn't Wait" — 4:05

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