RICHMOND FONTAINE - Post To Wire (20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) - 2CD [JUN 28]

2CD - 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition. Features a bonus full-length live CD, "On The Road 2003-2005" as well as a re-mastered version of the classic album.  

Richmond Fontaine's Post to Wire, finally gets the deluxe cd treatment with a extra disc of live tracks. The album caught the attention of the British public immediately upon release with glowing reviews and sold out UK and European shows and festivals with UNCUT giving it Album of The Month and finishing number 4 in the year end polls:

"UNCUT's discovery of the year - Fans of a certain kind of orphaned Americana are likely to fall on Post To Wire like apostles on The Grail. A dark and mesmerising masterpiece, brilliant" UNCUT 5/5

'Heroic pedal-steel Springsteen - one of this season's must have Americana purchases". Mojo

"Vlautin's songwriting on a par with Jay Farrar and Paul Westerberg"  - 5/5 Independent

"Post To Wire a fabulous addition to the all-too-slim canon of passionate, literary rock'n'roll” - 4/5 Guardian

Post to Wire comes in a fold out digi pack with bonus live disc with a re-mastered version of the classic album that features the artwork of longtime RF collaborator, Greg Allen. A full-length live CD, "On The Road 2003-2005", taken from the Post to Wire era is also included. Richmond Fontaine frontman Willy Vlautin, says: “This is the band in the early days, cowpunk and raw. The recordings are a bit rough but then we were rough, too".

Richmond Fontaine takes root in the fertile imagination of songwriter, novelist and guitarist Vlautin whom has penned 6 novels with his latest out on Faber & Faber this month, and his previous being made into a full length Netflix movie. The band made 11 studio albums with before breaking up in 2016 with three of the members regrouping to form The Delines whom just finished their fourth studio album which will be out early 2025. The Delines will be touring the EU/UK this June and July as well as throughout 2025.

Tracklist:

Disc 1 "Post To Wire"
1. The Longer You Wait
2. Barely Losing
3. Montgomery Park
4. Walter's On The Lam
5. Through
6. Postcard From California
7. Two Broken Hearts
8. Hallway
9. Postcard Written With A Broken Hand
10. Post To Wire
11. Polaroid
12. Always On The Ride
13. Postcard Postmarked Phoenix, AZ
14. Allison Johnson
15. Willamette
16. Valediction

Disc 2  -"On The Road 2003 - 2005"
1. Savior of Time
2. 1968
3. Hallway
4. Allison Johnson
5. Contrails
6. Montgomery Park
7. Black Road
8. City of Trembling Leaves-Willamette
9. I Hope I Don't End Up On Skid Row