Weed (album)

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Weed
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Studio album by
ReleasedMarch 20, 2004
RecordedAugust 2003
Genre Blues
Length59:35
Label Messenger Records
Producer Chris Whitley
Chris Whitley chronology
Hotel Vast Horizon
(2003)
Weed
(2004)
War Crime Blues
(2004)
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Weed is the tenth album by singer-songwriter and guitarist, Chris Whitley. It is his eighth studio album.

Contents

The album is Whitley's acoustic re-recording of a selection of songs he wrote from 1986 to 1996 for his three recordings on Columbia / Work Records: Living with the Law (1991), Din of Ecstasy (1995), and Terra Incognita (1997).

It was produced and recorded by Chris Whitley live to a two-track MD in Susann Bürger's bathroom / Sebnitzer Straße and Space House / Katharinenstraße in Dresden, Germany.

Track listing

All tracks written by Chris Whitley:

  1. "Power Down" – 3:43
  2. "Living with the Law" – 4:05
  3. "Know" – 3:16
  4. "Phone Call from Leavenworth" – 4:22
  5. "Cool Wooden Crosses" – 2:44
  6. "Big Sky Country" – 4:26
  7. "New Machine" – 3:19
  8. "Clear Blue Sky" – 4:36
  9. "Bordertown" – 3:16
  10. "Narcotic Prayer" – 3:42
  11. "Kick the Stones" – 4:11
  12. "Weightless" – 2:37
  13. "I Forget You Everyday" – 4:20
  14. "Make the Dirt Stick" – 3:33
  15. "Dust Radio" – 3:22
  16. "Can't Get Off (instrumental)" – 3:57

Personnel

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