In the wake of Black Sheep Boy, Okkervil River relentlessly toured the United States, Europe and Australia, honing their show along the way and slowly starting to prepare for The Stage Names. Late 2006 found them traveling America with a film crew and a mobile recording rig in tow, all for a documentary about the band that was never made. On Waves Wild + White culls the best performances from those sprawling, wild and wooly rock shows. High spirits, expansive banter, eccentric covers and shaggy-dog tomfoolery abound, all of it pristinely captured by the band’s state-of-the-art-for-the-time recording rig. A real roadhouse ripper and also maybe the closest Okkervil ever got to a comedy album? Liner notes excerpt Will’s personal journal entries written at the time.

Tracklist:

1. Down the River of Golden Dreams
2. It Ends with a Fall
3. Lady Liberty
4. No Key, No Plan
5. The Velocity of Saul at the Time of His Conversion
6. Red
7. Lost Coastlines (early version)
8. Love to a Monster
9. Song about a Star
10. Some Weird Sin (Iggy Pop cover)
11. For Real
12. Westfall
13. Just Give Me Time
14. Cracked Actor (David Bowie cover)
15. Last Love Song for Now
16. Kansas City