''Forever Valentine'' is an unreleased studio album by alternative country band

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, recorded between their '' Strangers Almanac'' and ''

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'' albums. The album, produced by

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, is notable for featuring Ben Folds on piano and ex- Firehose member

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on guitar. The band quickly recorded the album without their record label knowing about it, since it fell outside of the terms of their contract at that time. In an interview with the

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fan website AnsweringBell.com,

drummer Skillet Gilmore confirmed this. Music journalist David Menconi calls ''Forever Valentine'' "an interesting yet unfocused record consisting of eleven quite good but quite different songs", citing it as "one of the leading entries in Ryan's catalog of 'lost' albums"; while Steven Hyden of

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says that it "ranks with Adams’s best Whiskeytown work".

Track listing

Personnel and production credits

– guitar, vocals *

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– violin, vocals *

– guitar *

Mike Daly Mike Daly is an American record producer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. Daly attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston, graduating in 1994. Daly first came to prominence as the Whiskeytown resident multi-instrumentalist and co-w ...

– various instruments * Ben Folds – piano * Skillet Gilmore – drums *

– bass guitar, producer * Thomas O'Keefe – Project manager *Recorded at Scores/Slackmates,

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, and Modern Recording Service,

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References

External links

* https://web.archive.org/web/20120314223217/http://www.answeringbell.com/Answering%20Bell/Index/sessions.htm A thoroughly researched Ryan Adams/Whiskeytown Sessionography. {{Whiskeytown Whiskeytown albums Unreleased albums