Mountain Roads & City Streets International like when we started the

like when we started the show

When she came off stage

is the most exhaustive attempt so far to document the band’s wondrously ugly birth

London-based Live label

the 45 eventually saw several pressings and as many as 3500 copies

Mountain Roads & City Streets International like when we started theCosmic American Music from the far flung reaches of rural Oregon. Issued in 1979 on Allan Wachs own True Vine imprint, Mountain Roads and City Streets gathers a decade of songs written while hitchhiking up and down the west coast. Screeching pedal steel, lilting flute, and tingly dulcimer are peppered throughout Wachs tales of brief affairs, invisible dogs, and getting lost in a changing America.