Track Listing

1. The Harder They Come - Waco Brothers
2. 1,000,001 - Kelly Hogan (previously unreleased)
3. Goodbye Honey - Ryan Adams (previously unreleased from the "Heartbreaker" sessions)
4. Lilly White Mama & Jet Black Daddy - Andre Williams & 2 Star Tabernacle
5. Complicated Games - Moonshine Willy
6. The Madonna Trilogy - The Meat Purveyors
7. Rated X - Neko Case & the Sadies
8. Every Rose Has Its Thorn - Rex Hobart & the Misery Boys
9. Little Sadie - The Sadies
10. George Set Me Strait - Moonshine Willy
11. Maggot Brain - The Volebeats
12. Hanky Panky Woman - Kelly Hogan & the Mellowcremes
13. To Be Young (is to be sad, is to be high) - Ryan Adams (acoustic version--previously unreleased)
14. Wasted Days and Wasted Nights - Rex Hobart & the Misery Boys
15. It's Only Make Believe - Kelly Hogan & John Wesley Harding (previously unreleased)
16. Ramblin' Man - Andre Williams & 2 Star Tabernacle
17. Alone - Moonshine Willy
18. Nashville Radio - Jonboy Langford

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #139863 in Music
• Released on: 2002-12-10
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Limited Edition
• Dimensions: .20 pounds

Album Description
Full title - Making Singles, Drinking Doubles. Collection from Bloodshot Records culling tracks from many of their long out of print singles and EPs, as well as some totally unreleased dandies. Tracks from Waco Brothers, Neko Case & the Sadies, Kelly Hogan, Volebeats, The Meat Purveyors, Rex Hobart & The Misery Boys, Moonshine Willy, Andre Williams, The Sadies, Jon Langford and some unreleased gems from Ryan Adams. 2002.

Amazon.com
Making Singles Drinking Doubles does quite a few things well. As Bloodshot Records' 100th release, it serves to celebrate the indie label's survival to the century mark. As an aural overview of Bloodshot's brief but busy history, it may be the world's first danceable biography. And as a compilation of 18 rare and unreleased tracks--most of them culled from Bloodshot's catalog of long-out-of-print seven-inch singles--it's a blow to liberate a batch of cool tunes from the sole province of pencil-necked collectors and online auction hawks. Finally, like any Bloodshot comp worth its weight in rhinestones, Making Singles Drinking Doubles offers a Chicago-scene survey (the Waco Brothers, Kelly Hogan, Neko Case) as well as a few arch covers (Moonshine Willy, the Meat Purveyors, and Rex Hobart do XTC, Madonna, and Poison, respectively). And while Ryan Adams contributes a couple tunes, he may not be the biggest name in the liner notes: that honor goes to one Jack White, heard here howling behind Andre Williams with his pre-White Stripes outfit, 2 Star Tabernacle. --Anders Smith Lindall

Customer Reviews

Play that funky music, cowboy!
Put this cd on and get the party started! There are a few imaginative covers, "The Harder They Come" by the Waco Brothers, "Every Rose Has It's Thorn" by Rex Hobart and the Misery Boys and "The Madonna Trilogy" by The Meat Purveyors-Madonna songs played bluegrass-style! There is also an outstanding duet of "It's Only Make Believe" sung by Kelly Hogan and John Wesley Harding. There are two Ryan Adams' songs, one previously unreleased, "Goodbye Honey," and the other an acoustic version of "To Be Young (is to be sad, is to be high)" and both are outstanding. There are 18 tunes in all, and each one of them is worth a listen. The Bloodshot line-up is described as honky-skronk, country-punk or insurgent country, and these songs all have a country feel to them. They also have a lot of heart and soul, musical skill and a great deal of enthusiasm for the material, and most of all, they just sound like they're having a LOT OF FUN! Highly recommended!

The Title does not lie
This is drinkin' music people. It may be categorized as alt country but the singles on this album are rooted in old school country music. The kind that was played in smokey old bars. If you enjoy lyrics that you can understand and that tell a story this album is great.