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Whiskeytown: Out of Town

Bill Holdship, Dallas Observer, 30 November 2000

THE GREAT major-label mergings and purgings of the last several years have lost hundreds of people their jobs – but another tragic result is that many artists have been trapped in record-release limbo. The rootsy rock band Whiskeytown is one of them, and that's left rock fans unable to hear Pneumonia, arguably one of the best albums of 1999, and now 2000.

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