Name: Wagonwheel Blues
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Wagonwheel Blues

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Album: Wagonwheel Blues
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Arms Like Boulders	More Info...	0:05
2)	Taking The Farm	More Info...	0:04
3)	Coast Reprise	More Info...	0:03
4)	Buenos Aires Beach	More Info...	0:03
5)	There Is No Urgency	More Info...	0:06
6)	A Needle In Your Eye #16	More Info...	0:05
7)	Reverse the Charges	More Info...	0:03
8)	Show Me The Coast	More Info...	0:10
9)	Barrel Of Batteries	More Info...	0:02

Album: Wagonwheel Blues
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Arms Like Boulders	More Info...	0:05
2)	Taking The Farm	More Info...	0:04
3)	Coast Reprise	More Info...	0:03
4)	Buenos Aires Beach	More Info...	0:03
5)	There Is No Urgency	More Info...	0:06
6)	A Needle In Your Eye #16	More Info...	0:05
7)	Reverse the Charges	More Info...	0:03
8)	Show Me The Coast	More Info...	0:10
9)	Barrel Of Batteries	More Info...	0:02

Performer Notes

Personnel: Kurt Vile (vocals, guitar, acoustic 12-string guitar, electric 12-string guitar, trumpet, piano, Wurlitzer organ); Adam Granduciel (vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, harmonica, piano, Fender Rhodes piano, organ, drums, sampler); David Hartley (electric bass); Sir Kyle Lloyd (drums, percussion); Paul Cobb (drums).
Audio Mixers: Adam Granduciel; Jeff Zeigler ; Paul Cobb; Ryan Cobb; Brian McTear.
Photographer: Adam Granduciel.
The members of Philadelphia-based indie rock five-piece the War on Drugs have clearly spent as much time listening to Sonic Youth and Spiritualized as they have to Bob Dylan. The marriage between a lyrics-and-melody-centered classic-rock approach and waves of fuzzy guitar onslaught jumps out on the band's 2008 debut, WAGONWHEEL BLUES. Not only are the War on Drugs convincing in both modes, but WAGONWHEEL BLUES comes off as a new synthesis of these influences. With heady shoegaze coexisting peacefully with a singer-songwriter sensibility, the first album by the War on Drugs offers something familiar and fresh at once.

Professional Reviews

Q (Magazine) (p.111) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[S]inger/guitarist Adam Granduciel spins yarns from a road movie, he and guitarist Kurt Vile conjure a wall of Television and Sonic Youth-inspired guitar effects..."

Mojo (Publisher) (p.113) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "WAGONWHEEL BLUES becomes a refreshingly skewed take on some well travelled American rock routes."