Full Service No Waiting
Full Service No Waiting | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | February 17, 1998 | |||
Genre | Alternative rock, alternative country, folk rock | |||
Label | Vanguard | |||
Producer | Andrew Williams | |||
Peter Case chronology | ||||
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Full Service No Waiting is the sixth album by the American singer-songwriter Peter Case, released in 1998.
History
Full Service No Waiting was recorded quickly and on a tight budget. Case commented in an interview for No Depression: "Maybe our limitations worked for us on this one. “It was the freedom of the shoestring that allowed us to go with early takes, and work in a real energetic way. The whole process of going in and making a record can be kind of overwhelming. Even when you’ve done it a lot, it can clamp down on the spontaneity of the music. This time we really made a point of catching things when they were really fresh, and really alive — before they’d gotten run into the ground. So besides probably being my favorite record to work on, I think it was one of the quickest I’ve done."[1]
Case rented a room in a nearby town to write the music for the album. Of the process of writing, he said, "I worked four hours every day, from 9 in the morning until 1 in the afternoon. The music poured out. But when I tried to do my next record, Flying Saucer Blues, like that, I couldn’t. My system rebelled from that approach. I have to trick myself. I don’t like to hit things head-on. I get the willies."[2]
Critical reception
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Source | Rating |
Allmusic | [3] |
Entertainment Weekly | B+[4] |
Music critic
Track listing
All songs written by Peter Case unless otherwise noted.
- "Spell of Wheels" (Peter Case, Joshua Case) – 5:17
- "On the Way Downtown" (Peter Case, Joshua Case) – 3:36
- "Let Me Fall" – 4:17
- "Green Blanket (Part 1)" – 3:35
- "Honey Child" – 4:41
- "See Through Eyes" (Peter Case, Diane Sherry Case) – 4:04
- "Until the Next Time" – 4:18
- "Crooked Mile" – 4:03
- "Beautiful Grind" – 4:07
- "Drunkard's Harmony" – 6:58
- "Still Playin" – 5:00
Personnel
- Peter Case – guitar, vocals, harmonica
- Sandy Chila – drums
- Andrew Williams – harmonium, background vocal, guitar, mellotron
- pedal steel, dobro, guitar
- David Jackson – upright bass, accordion
- Lili Haydn – violin
- bodhran
- Eric W. Rigler – uilleann pipes
References
- ^ a b Townsend, Bob (March–April 1998). "Street Legal". No Depression. Archived from the original on July 19, 2013. Retrieved December 6, 2011.
- ^ Sachs, Lloyd (September–October 2002). "A Guitar Makes a Band". No Depression. Archived from the original on August 29, 2010.
- ^ Allmusic. Retrieved December 5, 2011.
- ^ "Full Service, No Waiting > Review". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved November 29, 2016.
- ^ "Full Service, No Waiting > Review". New York. Retrieved November 29, 2016.