{"product_id":"whiskeytown-pneumonia-2lp-blue","title":"Whiskeytown - Pneumonia [2LP Blue]","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhiskeytown's Pneumonia returns on blue double vinyl, a fitting home for the alt-country band's most lush and bittersweet album, the record that almost never saw daylight.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRecorded in 1999 with producer Ethan Johns, Pneumonia was finished just as the band's label disappeared in a music-industry merger. The tapes sat on a shelf, Whiskeytown fell apart, and by the time the album finally arrived in 2001, Ryan Adams had already launched his solo career. That backstory gives it a ghostly quality, a farewell from a band that had already left the room.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat a farewell it is. Moving beyond the scrappy twang of their earlier records, Adams, Caitlin Cary and Mike Daly reached for piano, strings and Beatles-tinged pop melody without losing their country heart. \"Don't Wanna Know Why\" is a gorgeous, rueful highlight, and \"Jacksonville Skyline\" remains a fan favourite, a hometown ballad full of small-town longing. Late in the running order, \"Bar Lights\" stretches out into a long, aching drift, with Cary's harmonies glowing in the background.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo decades on, Pneumonia stands as the most fully realised Whiskeytown record, warm, wistful and full of songs that sound better every year. For fans of Adams' solo work, it is where so much of that sound began.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alliance Entertainment","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57478822592817,"sku":"199957371827","price":43.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0704\/2026\/7313\/files\/Whiskeytown-Pneumonia_2LP_Blue.jpg?v=1794395664","url":"https:\/\/vinyl.com\/products\/whiskeytown-pneumonia-2lp-blue","provider":"Vinyl.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}