"Yesterday's News" | ||||
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Single by Whiskeytown | ||||
from the album Strangers Almanac | ||||
A-side | "Yesterday's News" (Radio Version) | |||
B-side | "Yesterday's News" (LP Version) | |||
Released | February 1998 | |||
Recorded | 1997 | |||
Genre | Alternative country | |||
Label | Outpost Recordings | |||
Songwriter(s) | Ryan Adams/Phil Wandscher | |||
Producer(s) | Jim Scott | |||
Whiskeytown singles chronology | ||||
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"Yesterday's News" is a song by alternative country band Whiskeytown, co-written by Ryan Adams and Phil Wandscher. It first appeared on Whiskeytown's Strangers Almanac album, and was released in 1998 as a CD single. [1]
An earlier version of the song - recorded during the band's "Baseball Park" sessions - was released on the 1998 reissue of the band's first album Faithless Street . [2] Ryan Adams calls this "the definitive version. It sounds younger and freer than the one on Strangers Almanac , a little bit faster and louder. That was our Big Star phase. I played through a Vox amp at [producer] Chris Stamey’s request. Phil put a space-echo on the solo, and he talks underneath me in the choruses. The singing is better on the original... I had just written the song when we recorded it with Chris [Stamey] for the Baseball Park Sessions. The person it was about was still fresh in my mind." [3]
The lyrics of the song mention "The Comet", i.e., The Comet Lounge, a favorite Raleigh, NC, hangout for the band. The bar has since closed. [4]
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Yesterday's News (Radio Version)" | Adams/Wandscher | 3:05 |
2. | "Yesterday's News (LP Version)" | Adams/Wandscher | 2:49 |
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