Weed | ||||
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Released | March 20, 2004 | |||
Recorded | August 2003 | |||
Genre | Blues | |||
Length | 59:35 | |||
Label | Messenger Records | |||
Producer | Chris Whitley | |||
Chris Whitley chronology | ||||
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Allmusic | [1] |
Weed is the tenth album by singer-songwriter and guitarist, Chris Whitley. It is his eighth studio album.
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.
All tracks written by Chris Whitley:
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