Interstate City

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Interstate City
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Live album by
ReleasedJuly 1996
RecordedContinental Club, Austin, Texas
Genre Folk rock, country rock
Length1:11:12
Label Hightone
Producer Dave Alvin
Dave Alvin chronology
King of California
(1994)
Interstate City
(1996)
Blackjack David
(1998)

Interstate City is a live album by American artist Dave Alvin and the Guilty Men, released in 1996. It was the group's first release and one of two the group released with Hightone records.

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Reception

Professional ratings
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Writing for Allmusic, music critic Thom Owens wrote of the album "Most of the newer numbers are on par with his finest material and they are delivered with an intoxicating rush. Interstate City is one of the rare live albums that actually improves on the original recordings." [1]

Track listing

All songs by Dave Alvin unless otherwise noted.

  1. "So Long Baby, Goodbye" – 3:26
  2. "Out in California" (Dave Alvin, Tom Russell) – 4:26
  3. "Interstate City" – 6:21
  4. "Look Out (It Must Be Love)/Intro to Mister Lee" – 4:21
  5. "Mister Lee" (Alvin, Fontaine Brown) – 5:04
  6. "Thirty Dollar Room" (Alvin, David Amy) – 6:29
  7. "Dry River" – 4:10
  8. "Museum of Heart" – 4:34
  9. "Waiting for the Hard Times to Go" (Jim Ringer) – 3:37
  10. "Jubilee Train/Do Re Mi/Promised Land" – 9:15
  11. "Long White Cadillac" – 7:43
  12. "The New Florence Avenue Lullaby" – 2:28
  13. "Romeo's Escape" – 8:58

Personnel

Production notes

References

  1. 1 2 Owens, Thom. "Interstate City > Review". Allmusic . Retrieved August 1, 2015.
  2. Christgau, Robert. "Dave Alvin Reviews" . Retrieved August 1, 2015.