Album · Chris Whitley
Living With the Law by Chris Whitley
Living With the Law is an album by Chris Whitley, released in 1991. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 20 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Big Sky Country”, on 20 lists with a best position of #141.
Living with the Law, Chris Whitley's 1991 debut on Columbia, is a dusty, humid, haunted record, and a lot of that comes from where it was made. Malcolm Burn produced it, mixed it and played on it, and he and Mark Howard recorded it at Kingsway Studio, Daniel Lanois's home in New Orleans.
Whitley's music came out of blues, jazz and rock, and here his guitar rings and shimmers with an eerie twang while his voice drifts somewhere between a moan and a whisper. The atmosphere is thick enough to cut: wide open spaces, heat haze and a sense of something ominous just over the horizon. "Living with the Law", "Big Sky Country" and "Poison Girl" were the singles. He would spend his career drifting between blues and alternative rock without ever quite settling in either camp.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Living With the Law on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Big Sky Country | 20 | #141 | – | 1999–2026 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.