Receiver (album)
album by Farmer Not So John
Receiver is the second album by the band Farmer Not So John, released in 1998. It was the band's final album.
Critical reception
No Depression wrote that the band "churns out a difficult-to-pigeonhole sound that variously recalls early R.E.M., the first couple of Jayhawks records and the desolate edge of Neil Young’s more brooding efforts with Crazy Horse." The Associated Press called the album "excellent," writing that Farmer Not So John is "one of those impossible-to-classify bands, the kind that the small minds of so many radio programmers cannot make room for and therefore cannot add to their play lists, which is a real shame."
Track listing
"Paperthin"
"Fuse"
"Consigned To Oblivion"
"Rise Above The Wreckage"
"For You I Will Pretend"
"Undertow"
"No Time To Please You"
"Me Too"
"Grand Bouquet"
"Pen Across The Page"
Performers
Farmer Not So John
Mack Linebaugh (vocals, electric & acoustic guitar)
Brian Ray (bass, vocals)
Richard McLaurin (acoustic, electric, 12-string, lap steel & toy guitars, mandolin, banjo, fiddle, accordion, tambourine, vocals)
Sean R. Keith (drums).
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