Changing Horses (Ben Kweller album)

Changing Horses
Studio album by Ben Kweller
Released February 2, 2009 (2009-02-02)
Recorded 2007-2008, Austin at Public Hi-Fi & Cedar Creek, New York City at Smith Street Studios
Genre Country rock, alt-country, folk rock
Length 35:45
Label ATO Records / Noise Co.
Producer Ben Kweller
Ben Kweller chronology
Ben Kweller
(2006)
Changing Horses
(2009)
Go Fly a Kite
(2012)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic69/100[1]
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic [2]
Austin Chronicle [3]
Paste(50%) [4]
Pitchfork Media(5.3/10) [5]
Rolling Stone [6]
Spin [7]
SSW [8]

Changing Horses is the fourth studio album by Ben Kweller, which was expected for release in September 2008 but was eventually released on February 2, 2009 in Europe and February 3 2009 in the United States. Kweller has described the new album as being more Country in style than his previous releases. The album features his rhythm section Chris Morrissey (bass) and Mark Stepro (drums). It also debuts the talents of Kitt Kitterman, Kweller's manager, who plays pedal steel guitar and Dobro. On November 23, 2008, the full album leaked onto the Internet. In a statement, ATO Records said the leak was not the final version of the album. The song "Hurtin' You" was debuted on Stereogum. The whole album was made available to stream exclusively on Last.fm.

Track listing

  1. "Gypsy Rose" – 4:56
  2. "Old Hat" – 4:12
  3. "Fight" – 2:54
  4. "Hurtin' You" – 2:47
  5. "Ballad of Wendy Baker" – 3:58
  6. "Sawdust Man" – 4:12
  7. "Wantin' Her Again" – 2:42
  8. "Things I Like to Do" – 2:09
  9. "On Her Own" – 4:01
  10. "Homeward Bound" – 3:50

Personnel


Production Notes

References

  1. "Changing Horses by Ben Kweller". Retrieved 3 October 2016.
  2. Changing Horses at AllMusic
  3. Austin Chronicle review
  4. "Ben Kweller: Changing Horses". Retrieved 3 October 2016.
  5. Pitchfork Media review Archived February 6, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.
  6. Rolling Stone review
  7. "Ben Kweller, 'Changing Horses' (ATO) - SPIN". 20 January 2009. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
  8. "SSW review". Archived from the original on 19 February 2012. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 11/19/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.