Continental Drifters – White Noise & Lightning: The Best Of Continental Drifters (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:05:04 minutes | 755 MB | Genre: Country, Country Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Omnivore Recordings
Continental Drifters are a congregation of like-minded, creative musical souls, whose other bands just happened to include The Bangles, The Dream Syndicate, The dB’s, The Cowsills, and more. From their 1992 debut single “The Mississippi” through 1994’s eponymous debut, 1998’s Vermillion, 2001’s Better Day, and Nineteen Ninety-Three (recorded in 1992 but released a decade later), the Drifters’ lineup may have been fluid, but their sound has always been instantly identifiable, comforting, and fantastic.
White Noise & Lightning: The Best Of Continental Drifters paints the story of the band. The 15-track album (featuring a previously unissued scorching 12-minute live version of “Who We Are, Where We Live”) follows the journey across their entire career. It will be released in conjunction with the publication of Sean Kelly’s White Noise & Lightning: The Continental Drifters Story (coming September 27 from Cool Dog Sound) which chronicles the 10-year journey of the Continental Drifters and follows the band through years of cross-country moves, lineup changes, industry highs and lows, marriages, divorces, and dozens of classic songs.
Just as Kelly’s authorized biography of the band tells the story of a critically acclaimed, commercially overlooked band that became so much more, White Noise & Lightning is not only a great place to start for the uninitiated, but is the perfect soundtrack for this legendary proto-Americana band.
Tracklist:
1-01. Continental Drifters – The Rain Song (03:57)
1-02. Continental Drifters – Christopher Columbus Transcontinental Highway (03:41)
1-03. Continental Drifters – Dallas (04:31)
1-04. Continental Drifters – Mezzanine (02:25)
1-05. Continental Drifters – Invisible Boyfriend (03:31)
1-06. Continental Drifters – Match Made In Heaven (01:56)
1-07. Continental Drifters – The Mississippi (04:21)
1-08. Continental Drifters – Get Over It (03:52)
1-09. Continental Drifters – Mixed Messages (03:35)
1-10. Continental Drifters – Don’t Do What I Did (02:53)
1-11. Continental Drifters – Tomorrow’s Gonna Be (04:03)
1-12. Continental Drifters – Na Na (03:04)
1-13. Continental Drifters – Peaceful Waking (06:19)
1-14. Continental Drifters – Drifters (04:51)
1-15. Continental Drifters – Who We Are, Where We Live (Live at the Court Tavern) (12:00)
