''Travel On, Rider'' is the fifth studio album by

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. It was released in 1996 on

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, making it the band's major-label debut. It was produced by

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and Jeff Powell. In a favorable review,

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wrote that "although ''Travel On, Rider''...is by far the best album of crawl'scareer, it is also the band's most difficult." She also described the album as "the Ladies to the fghan Whigs' 1993 tour de force ''

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''. Andy Kellman gave ''Travel On, Rider'' 3 and a half stars out of 5, writing, "Without sacrificing the band's rough edges, Steve Albini's and Jeff Powell's recording and engineering give the band it's icmost polished sound yet, but it doesn't make their songs -- still bitter, still pessimistic, still sad -- suffer for it."

Track listing

#"Good Under Pressure" – 3:39 #"The Garden Path" – 3:11 #"I'm Not Stuck" – 4:23 #"From Deep Inside Her" – 2:49 #"Story Musgrave" – 4:46 #"Easy On Her Mind" – 2:46 #"Hunting Me Down" – 2:27 #"Louis L'Amour" – 3:12 #"Come Back Then" – 2:49 #"He Cleaned Up" – 3:09 #"Story Musgrave (At The Piano)" – 3:39 #"What Did We Give Away?" – 3:46

References

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