Classic Wallflowers Album Gets Vinyl Treatment

To help mark the album’s 20th anniversary next month, Universal Music is reissuing the album for the first time on vinyl in a two-LP set.

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Featuring Jakob Dylan on vocals and rhythm guitar (as well as writing all the songs), Michael Ward on lead guitar, Rami Jafee on Hammond B3 organ, backing vocals, keyboards and piano and Greg Richling on bass, Bringing Down the Horse, the band’s first for new label Interscope, represented a major advance over the band’s self-titled 1992 debut. The recording, which took place largely at Sunset Sound in Hollywood, featuring banjos, dobros and pedal steel guitars and such guest musicians as Jon Brion (lead guitar on “One Headlight”), Mike Campbell (slide guitar on “6th Avenue Heartache”), Matt Chamberlin (who played drums on the entire album), Counting Crows’ Adam Duritz (background vocals on “6th Avenue Heartache”), Leo LeBlanc (pedal steel guitar), Michael Penn (background vocals on “Angel On My Bike”), Sam Phillips (background vocals on “One Headlight” and “Laughing Out Loud”), Gary Louris, Stephen Bruton and David Rawlings.

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Dylan’s songs, written over the course of five years, reflected his frustration at trying to succeed on his own terms in the music business. “Every song, fortunately, or unfortunately, is about that feeling of defeat and struggle to overcome that,” he said at the time.

Looking back on the album in 2012, Dylan told American Songwriter: “Yes, I think it has stood up well. I hear those songs and I’m surprised too. I think T Bone said to me at the time that it was a hyper-modern folk record. And he was kind of right. I do remember being aware that we were using a lot of these organic instruments… At that point we were catching everybody, including the songs, at their peak. It was a perfect storm of characters that really made it all happen. I think we did capture lightning in a bottle. We could feel something special was happening at the time.”

The complete album track list is as follows:

1. One Headlight
2. 6th Avenue Heartache
3. Bleeders
4. Three Marlenas
5. The Difference
6. Invisible City
7. Laughing Out Loud
8. Josephine
9. God Don’t Make Lonely Girls
10. Angel on My Bike
11. I Wish I Felt Nothing

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