Artist: The Rock*A*Teens

Title: Sweet Bird of Youth

Format: Vinyl LP

Genre: Rock

UPC: 673855018119

Release Date: 2014

Record Label: Merge Records

Album Tracks

DISC 1:
1. Car and Driver
2. If I Wanted to Be Famous (I'd Have Shot Someone)
3. Please Don't Go Downtown Tonight
4. Betwixt or Between
5. Make It New Again
6. Sun's Up
7. It's Destiny
8. Hwy R

DISC 2:
1. If You Only Knew
2. I Hope You'll Never See Me Like This
3. That Day Is Today
4. Ma, Look What the City Did to Me
5. Our Future Was Then
6. Lee Knows Every Raindrop
7. Put It Right Out of Your Mind
8. No Books About It

When Sweet Bird was released, the band was approaching the end of it's existence. The band members all had their own lives, their own jobs, and their own destinies. The band's final concert on New Year's Eve '02 wasn't sheepish but rather a triumphant farewell. Lopez sang without his guitar on, standing on the monitors and screaming "I am the car, and I am the driver!" the crowd was as jubilant as the band. Much like their performances back then, their body of work is a true catharsis. They were a truly homegrown band from Georgia that couldn't possibly be mistaken for being from anywhere else.