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}} ''Against Me! as the Eternal Cowboy'' is the second album by the Gainesville, Florida punk rock band Against Me!, released on November 3, 2003 by Fat Wreck Chords. It was the group's first release for the label and their first album with bassist Andrew Seward, who had replaced original bassist Dustin Fridkin the previous year. The album was produced by Rob McGregor, who had also produced their first album ''Against Me! Is Reinventing Axl Rose'' (2002). Two singles were released in support of the album, "Cavalier Eternal" and "Sink, Florida, Sink", though each features different versions of the songs than those found on the album. ''As the Eternal Cowboy'' was Against Me!'s first album to reach the ''Billboard'' charts, reaching #36 on Top Independent Albums. In 2009 Fat Wreck Chords released ''The Original Cowboy'', a demo recording that the band had done in preparation for recording the album. ==Background and recording== Against Me! announced plans to record the album in July 2003, stating that they would work with producer Rob McGregor, who had recorded their first album and two previous EPs, and that the album would be released November 4. The band planned to record at Ardent Studios in Memphis, Tennessee, where they could make an all-analog recording with very few overdubs. In order to ensure that McGregor would be familiar with the new songs by the time they went to Memphis, the band recorded demos for the entire album at his Goldentone Studios in their hometown of Gainesville, Florida on July 15 in the span of a few hours.〔 The rest of the album was recorded that August at Ardent. The version of "Cavalier Eternal" from the July 15 Goldentone session was used on the album, as Fat Wreck Chords head Fat Mike preferred it to the version recorded at Ardent.〔〔 〕 The entire Goldentone demo session was released in 2009 by Fat Wreck Chords as ''The Original Cowboy''. ''Against Me! as the Eternal Cowboy'' was mixed and engineered by Pete Matthews and assistant engineer Adam Hill, and was mastered by Brad Blackwood at Euphonic Masters. Singer/guitarist Laura Jane Grace designed the album's artwork and layout, using photographs taken by Bryan K. Wynacht.〔 The album's title and track listing were announced in September 2003, followed by news that the band's previous label No Idea Records would release the singles for "Cavalier Eternal" and "Sink, Florida, Sink", using alternate versions of the songs from the recording sessions, including the version of "Cavalier Eternal" recorded at Ardent. Grace described the record in 2003 as a concept album "that explores love and war", explaining an ambiguity with regards to the album's title's reference to its songs: an ''Eternal Cowboy'' can be "symbolic of the power structure" or of "someone forever wandering, lost and alone".〔http://www.lasvegasmercury.com/2003/MERC-Nov-06-Thu-2003/22494811.html〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Against Me! as the Eternal Cowboy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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