Rural Free Delivery (EP)

Rural Free Delivery
EP by
ReleasedMay 6, 1997
Recorded1995
GenreAlternative country, country rock
Length24:05
LabelMood Food
Whiskeytown chronology
Theme for a Trucker
(1997)
Rural Free Delivery
(1997)
In Your Wildest Dreams
(1997)

Rural Free Delivery is an EP by the alternative country band Whiskeytown, released by Mood Food Records in 1997. It compiles the four songs from the band's debut EP Angels recorded in a single day, with four additional outtakes from the same session.[1] The music was recorded in 1995, just a few months after Whiskeytown formed, but it was released only two years later.[2] This was part of a deal worked out with Mood Food to release the band from their current contract so that they could sign with Outpost Recordings.[3]

The EP contains a hidden track, an alternate mix of "Nervous Breakdown", at the beginning of the CD. To access it, listeners must scan backwards 3:15 from the beginning of the first listed track.[4]

  1. ^ Menconi, David (2012). Ryan Adams: Losering, A Story of Whiskeytown. University of Texas Press. pp. 195–196. ISBN 978-0-292-72584-3.
  2. ^ Blackstock, Peter (1997). "Whiskeytown – Falling down, standing up: Americana and Roots Music – No Depression". No Depression. Archived from the original on 2011-09-25. Retrieved 2011-01-03.
  3. ^ Menconi, David (2012). Ryan Adams: Losering, A Story of Whiskeytown. University of Texas Press. p. 81. ISBN 978-0-292-72584-3.
  4. ^ Janbanan (2001-11-11). "Rural Free Delivery (Whiskeytown) Easter Egg – Hidden Track". The Easter Egg Archive. Retrieved 2011-01-03.