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Vinyl LP pressing. The universe feels real on The Turnpike Troubadours because the band resolved to let the album happen on it's own time. Moving out to the Prairie Sun recording complex in the desert country of Cotati, California, setting up in former chicken coops converted into studios, they metaphorically unplugged the clock and worked studiously through 12-hour sessions, wrapping up only when each story and every note rang true. There's Inch7 OaksInch, recounting a life made desperate by poverty, made more vivid by an incongruous hoedown accompaniment. InchBossier City,Inch focused on a sad mill worker who blows his pay regularly on gambling and booze. Album Tracks 1. The Bird Hunters 2. The Mercury 3. Down Here 4. Time of Day 5. Ringing in the Year 6. A Little Song 7. Long Drive Home 8. Easton & Main 9. 7 Oaks 10. Doreen 11. Fall Out of Love 12. Bossier City
