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for Californian

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The Wallflowers The Wallflowers is an American rock solo project of American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Jakob Dylan. The Wallflowers were originally a roots rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1989 by Dylan and guitarist Tobi Miller. The band ...

. It was released in October 2012 by

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, and charted at #48. The band revealed the title of the album on July 12, 2012, and they released their first single, "Reboot the Mission" for free on July 24, 2012. On October 1, 2012, it was announced on the band's website that "Love Is a Country" would be the second single.

Reception

The album received a score of 73 out of 100 from

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wrote that "The Wallflowers don't abandon their identity as rock & roll classicists, they just now feel the freedom to mess around, and they've come up with one of their loosest, liveliest records that not-so-coincidentally is one of their best." Nine years after the release of the record,

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told

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that "it was a contentious record to make" and that tensions within the band led to it being a "disjointed" album. "Simply put, I don’t think the band was getting together that great when we got back together. So, you can hear it in the record," he said.

Track listing

Personnel

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* Greg Richling –

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, backing vocals, percussion Additional musician * Mick Jones – guitar, backing vocals on "Misfits and Lovers" and "Reboot the Mission" *

Jay Joyce John Joseph "Jay" Joyce is an American record producer, songwriter and session musician. In the 1990s, Joyce, with Chris Feinstein and Brad Pemberton, recorded and toured as Iodine and began working as a record producer, working with artists suc ...

– guitar, backing vocals, percussion,

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References

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