GREATEST HITS by Adam Gnade

This tape is a collection of prose writing (autobiographical fiction) with backing music recorded during the first two years after having left the city for the country. These pieces were always meant to be set in a certain order and included together (but they weren't for a few good reasons, and now they are and I'm glad).

For me this album feels very much of a time--2010 and 2011--a lot of touring, especially overseas, a lot of being very broke, and a lot of trying hard while feeling completely overwhelmed by everything all at once.

This feels like being on the road all the time. It sounds (to me, probably only to me) like breakfast in strange towns, writing long emails at rest stops, sweet evenings back home in the farmhouse, reading Thought Catalog articles and Melville in my attic bedroom, river shores, corn fields, uncertainty, good jokes, New York City bars, friends on drugs, Southern all-ages clubs, sleeping in tour vans, rarely being online, hungover mornings in bad motels, and endless soundchecks. I was very much into folk music and noise in a way I would never be again.

It was an exciting time to be alive and also pretty awful some days. A lot happened in those two years, and much of that is reflected here. These are my "hits" of 2010 and 2011. -Adam Gnade

Tracklist

1.	Hello America (with the Hot Earth All-Stars)	4:55

2.	The Whole Lonesome Thing (with the Hot Earth All-Stars)	5:34

3.	Greater Mythology Blues (with the Hot Earth All-Stars)	7:21

4.	This is the End of Something But It's Not the End of You. Instrumental Refrain (with the Hot Earth All-Stars)	0:59

5.	The New Old West (with the Hot Earth All-Stars)	1:58

6.	The Ballad of Henny Lee (with the Hot Earth All-Stars)	2:20

7.	On the Ranch (with the Hot Earth All-Stars)	2:34

8.	The Watertower, the Day the Warfield Bucs Meet Hoover High (with the Hot Earth All-Stars)	2:36

9.	Interlude, Jukebox	1:19

10.	Farmhouses	3:00

11.	We Never Killed the Blues (But Goddamn We Killed Some Time)	3:37

12.	We Must Come Home Again	4:31

13.	Interlude, Trailerpark City	0:44

14.	The Ballad of Tom Bluefeather (with the Hot Earth All-Stars)	7:08

15.	You Got Mean (with the Hot Earth All-Stars)	3:04

16.	Interlude, Car Radio	0:25

17.	Supper's Waiting on the Table (with the Hot Earth All-Stars)	4:15

18.	This is the End of Something But It's Not the End of You (with the Hot Earth All-Stars)	4:31

Credits

released December 11, 2023

Adam Gnade (vocals, guitar, noise). The Hot Earth All-Stars are Adam Laidlaw (guitar, backing vocals on end track), Chandler Galloway (piano, organ), Chris Cooke (guitar), Damon Moon (guitar, bass, keyboards, drums, field recordings, noise, backing vocals on end track), Jacob Smith (lap steel), Sydney Eloise (backing vocals on end track).

Some of these tracks have appeared previously via Three One G, Punch Drunk Press, and Blessing Force.

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