| Full Service No Waiting | ||||
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| Released | February 17, 1998 | |||
| Genre | Alternative rock, alternative country, folk rock | |||
| Label | Vanguard | |||
| Producer | Andrew Williams | |||
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Full Service No Waiting is the sixth album by the American singer-songwriter Peter Case, released in 1998.
Full Service No Waiting was recorded quickly and on a tight budget. Case commented in an interview for No Depression : "Maybe our limitations worked for us on this one. “It was the freedom of the shoestring that allowed us to go with early takes, and work in a real energetic way. The whole process of going in and making a record can be kind of overwhelming. Even when you’ve done it a lot, it can clamp down on the spontaneity of the music. This time we really made a point of catching things when they were really fresh, and really alive — before they’d gotten run into the ground. So besides probably being my favorite record to work on, I think it was one of the quickest I’ve done." [1]
Case rented a room in a nearby town to write the music for the album. Of the process of writing, he said, "I worked four hours every day, from 9 in the morning until 1 in the afternoon. The music poured out. But when I tried to do my next record, Flying Saucer Blues, like that, I couldn’t. My system rebelled from that approach. I have to trick myself. I don’t like to hit things head-on. I get the willies." [2]
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [3] |
| Entertainment Weekly | B+ [4] |
Music critic Denise Sullivan of Allmusic praised the album and questioned "With such a strong debut, follow-up and mid-career resurrection, the question still remains: when will Case achieve the recognition he deserves as one of his generation's finest songwriters?" [3] In an article on Case for No Depression , Bob Townsend wrote of the record; "As he's done for more than a decade, Case delivers this latest bunch of songs through a timeless combination of melodic verve and closely observed lyricism. But it's his mature struggle with the restless ghosts of his past that makes the new disc so resounding." [1] New York Magazine called the album "stunning" and that Case "makes the leap from romantic admirer of folk traditions to authentic practitioner." [5]
All songs written by Peter Case unless otherwise noted.
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