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Ryan Adams is one of music’s greatest current minds. But give him some free time (isn’t he supposed to be working on two albums?) and he creates some of the weirdest youtube videos around. And tons of them… Read full post »
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Ryan Adams cut his teenage teeth in punk band the Patty Duke Syndrome long before hitting pay dirt with alt country latecomers Whiskeytown. Disbanding that twangy troupe after three albums (with a fourth full-length entitled Pneumonia released following the band's split), Adams made like many a front man and transmogrified into an earnest singer-songwriter. In his solo career, Adams has reworked his raucous Americana sound by either stripping it down to a gritty, bare-bones sparseness or pumping it up with steam-powered rhythms, distorted guitars and some of the most polished production in all of Los Angeles. He's developed a driving, melodious pop style with catchier hooks than many of his contemporaries -- in fact, of all the insurgent country hopefuls who've attempted to break into the more lucrative Adult Alternative radio charts (Kim Richey, the Jayhawks, Victoria Williams, Rhett Miller, Kelly Willis, Son Volt, etc), Adams is the closest to achieving a crossover success of John Mellencamp-esque proportions.
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To call Ryan Adams a prolific artist is to state the brutally obvious. But you can't argue the facts and the numbers speak for themselves. In the seven years since leaving Whiskeytown and embarking on a consistently creative and ambitious solo career, he's released eight studio albums (2004’s Cold Roses is a double album), a double EP, countless singles and promos, and a dozen bootlegs. This month’s release of album #9 breaks an eighteen-month hiatus since 2005’s 29. In Ryan Adams years, which are much like dog years, that’s an eternity.
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Before addressing the album in detail, lets just get it out the way that Ryan Adams remains one of the most spectacularly gifted, emotive songwriters there is and holds one of the most consistent bodies of work around right now. The first of his three albums this year, Cold Roses, remains along with Rufus Wainwright's Want Two, the best work by anyone so far this last year.
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An article last Sunday about the singer Ryan Adams misstated the sales figures for his most recent album, “29.” It sold 81,000 copies, not 31,000. The article ... misstated the location of the concert at which a heckler’s request for a Bryan Adams song prompted Ryan Adams to have a meltdown onstage. It occurred in Nashville, not New York.
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Country music's most talented bastard, Ryan Adams, is once again receiving the critical acclaim that has been so elusive for him since his first solo album, 2000's Heartbreaker. No alarms, no surprises-his album Cold Roses, which came out in the spring, is without a doubt the finest effort of Adams's career, and his most recent, Jacksonville City Nights, is close on its heels.
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