ALL HAIL WEST TEXAS

ALL HAIL WEST TEXAS

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The last of the "all-home-recordings albums" by the Mountain Goats and the only one about which that claim is true, <i>All Hail West Texas</i> was originally released as a free-standing compact disc on the late, lamented Emperor Jones about a decade ago. The songs were originally transferred from the cassettes onto which they were recorded to 1/2" reels at Tiny Telephone by Alex Newport. Remastered from those reels, along with 7 unearthed songs from the two surviving contemporaneous cassettes, <i>All Hail West Texas</i> stands as the peak of the Mountain Goats' home recording era.<br><br>The LP (on vinyl now for the first time in North America) is packaged in a deluxe gatefold jacket and includes a digital download of the full record plus the seven additional tracks.