Whiskeytown - Pneumonia

Pneumonia has been around for a long time, but somehow I never got to it until quite recently. It's actually a really wonderful record in the alt-country vein, evidently driven by Ryan Adams, though his voice is sweetly counterpointed by bandmate Caitlin Cary's on several songs. Country, rock and pop run through it, blending into a sound that's now familiar but no less welcome for it - sometimes melancholy, sometimes more breezy, sometimes even rootsily rocking. My favourites are back to back about a third of the way in - the chiming "Don't Be Sad" followed by "Sit and Listen to the Rain" which, in its low-key way, makes me think of the sound that a stream makes, burbling quietly to itself as it runs.