Favorite Waitress

The Felice Brothers spent a year working on the songs for Favorite Waitress.^[6] Produced by Jeremy Backofen, it was recorded in a week at Arc Studios, in Omaha, Nebraska.^[7][8] The band wanted a more minimalist sound and tried to use only instruments that they played on a regular basis.^[6] They used a string section on "Lion".^[9] "Bird on Broken Wing" is dedicated to Pete Seeger.^[1]

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Source	Rating
AllMusic	[10]
Exclaim!	7/10[9]
Ox-Fanzine	7/10[11]
Pitchfork	5.6/10[12]
The Press	[13]
Rolling Stone	[14]
Uncut	[15]

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The Liverpool Echo said that the album "lurches with a loose, devil-may-care energy that can obscure and highlight the beauty of the songs within."^[16] Rolling Stone opined that "the lively romp 'Lion' ... proves that the Felices translate best on record when they're being their boisterous, rootsy selves."^[14] The Philadelphia Inquirer noted the "darker, more expressionistic turn".^[17]

The New York Times stated that "the songs lurch, sway, plunk and rock out; they turn cryptic or offer direct comfort, focusing the album's many allusions to economic inequality".^[18] The Bristol Post called the music "a country bar room slur mixed with a vaudevillian honky tonk stagger through the weird, the broken and the wonderful".^[19] The Press dismissed the album as "too calculated, too mechanical".^[13]