Various Artists
  1. Waco Brothers - Harder They Come
  2. Kelly Hogan - 1,000,001
  3. Ryan Adams - Goodbye Honey
  4. Andre Williams and 2 Star Tabernacle - Lily White Mama and Jet Black Daddy
  5. Moonshine Willy - Complicated Game
  6. The Meat Purveyors - The Madonna Trilogy
  7. Neko Case and the Sadies - Rated X
  8. Rex Hobart and the Misery Boys - Every Rose Has Its Thorn
  9. The Sadies - Little Sadie
  10. Moonshine Willy - George Set Me Strait
  11. Volebeats - Maggot Brain
  12. Kelly Hogan and the Mellowcremes - Hanky Panky Woman
  13. Ryan Adams - To Be Young (Is To Be Sad, Is To Be High)
  14. Rex Hobart and the Misery Boys  -Wasted Days and Wasted Nights
  15. Andre Williams and 2 Star Tabernacle - Ramblin' Man
  16. Moonshine Willy - Alone
  17. Jon Langford - Nashville Radio
Making Singles and Drinking Doubles
Released  12/10/2002
CD, Bloodshot Records

Bloodshot Records will release Making Singles and Drinking Doubles on December 10th. The 100th release by the Chicago label will feature rare and unreleased songs from the likes of Ryan Adams, Neko Case, Jon Langford, the Sadies and Kelly Hogan.

Included in the disc's seventeen tracks are a pair of songs from Adams's recording sessions for Heartbreaker -- his 2000 release on Bloodshot --- the unreleased "Goodbye Honey," and an acoustic reading of the album track "To Be Young (Is to Be Sad, Is to Be High)."

A former publicist for Bloodshot -- who has since recorded two albums for the label -- Hogan landed a pair of cuts on the compilation: A cover of the Loretta Lynn-popularized Hanky Panky Woman and "1,000,001" which she wrote as an answer song to the Sadies' "One Million Songs."

"I was listening to that song one night," Hogan says. "And I kept running it back, 'Did Dallas [singer Good] really just thank that woman for spreading his seed?' So I called him up at 2 a.m. He answered and said, yes, he was saying that in the song. So I asked if I could write an answer song -- which is an oddball genre of music that I love, all the way back to [Kitty Wells'] 'It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels,' -- from the seed carrier's POV. Dallas thought that was a great idea. My song is exactly the same in chord progression as theirs -- but it's in a higher key for me and extra fast. The arrangement is slightly different. And the lyrics start off very similar, and then take the dude to task for spending his money on speed instead of Pampers."

Among the other tracks included is "The Madonna Trilogy," Austin-based bluegrass ensemble the Meat Purveyors' take on "Like a Virgin," "Lucky Star" and "Burning Up." And the Waco Brothers take a crack at Jimmy Cliff's "The Harder They Come."

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