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 "7 Oaks", recounting a life made desperate by poverty, made more vivid by an incongruous hoedown accompaniment. "Bossier City," focused on a sad mill worker who blows his pay regularly on gambling and booze. A1 The Bird Hunters
A2 The Mercury
A3 Down Here
A4 Time Of Day
A5 Ringing In The Year
B1 Long Drive Home
B2 Easton & Main
B3 7 Oaks
B4 Fall Out Of Love
B5 Bossier City