16 Days (song)

"16 Days"
Single by Whiskeytown
from the album Strangers Almanac
B-side
  • "The Rain Won't Help You When It's Over"
  • "Wither, I'm a Flower"
ReleasedJuly 1997
Recorded1997
GenreAlternative country
LabelOutpost Recordings
Songwriter(s)Ryan Adams
Producer(s)Jim Scott
Whiskeytown singles chronology
"16 Days"
(1997) 		"Yesterday's News"
(1998)

"16 Days" is a song by alternative country band Whiskeytown and written by Ryan Adams. It first appeared on Whiskeytown's Strangers Almanac album in 1997, and was released that same year 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] And an alternate, acoustic version of the song – also recorded during the "Baseball Park" sessions – was released on the 2008 deluxe edition of Strangers Almanac.[3][4]

According to Ryan Adams, the song was released as a single and was getting significant radio airplay until, in a fit of anger, he dared a powerful West Coast radio programmer to take the song off the air. The programmer obliged, and the song soon disappeared from radio playlists.[5]

  1. ^ "16 Days (Single)". AnsweringBell.com. Archived from the original on 2011-07-07. Retrieved 2011-02-01.
  2. ^ Faithless Street (Media notes). Whiskeytown. Los Angeles, CA: Outpost Recordings. 1998. OPRD-30002.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  3. ^ Strangers Almanac Deluxe Edition (Media notes). Whiskeytown. Santa Monica, CA: Geffen. 2008. B0009410-02.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  4. ^ Skiing – Jan 1998 Vol. 50, No. 5 "Like Whiskeytown. Their Stranger's Almanac (Outpost) recycles pop hooks worthy of Jackson Browne, but with a country twang. Lap and pedal steels, banjos, and violins conspire on open-road raves like "Turn Around" and "Sixteen Days.""
  5. ^ Stewart, Allison (2000). "Music: Whiskeytown Tales (The Boston Phoenix. 09-11-00)". The Boston Phoenix. Archived from the original on 29 November 2010. Retrieved 2011-01-07.