All Hail West Texas

All Hail West Texas is an album by The Mountain Goats. After the slight increase in production values on 2000's The Coroner's Gambit, All Hail West Texas is, as of 2005, the last Mountain Goats album on which all the songs were recorded on John Darnielle's trademark Panasonic RX-FT500 boombox. The album is a sort of concept album, with the cover stating that the album consists of "fourteen songs about seven people, two houses, a motorcycle, and a locked treatment facility for adolescent boys". Many of the songs explicitly reference places in Texas, though not necessarily in West Texas.

Track Listing

(all songs by John Darnielle)

1. "The Best Ever Death Metal Band Out of Denton"
2. "Fall of the High School Running Back"
3. "Colour In Your Cheeks"
4. "Jenny"
5. "Fault Lines"
6. "Balance"
7. "Pink and Blue"
8. "Riches and Wonders"
9. "The Mess Inside"
10. "Jeff Davis County Blues"
11. "Distant Stations"
12. "Blues in Dallas"
13. "Source Decay"
14. "Absolute Lithops Effect"

External links

• Complete lyrics to the album