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Ryan Adams exasperates and exhilarates in roughly equal measures. The guy can torch the house or noodle you numb, but even when his well-oiled songwriting machinery is running on obsessive internal drive rather than true inspiration, the results are rarely boring. Let's face it, when a new Ryan Adams record hits the street you make a point of checking it out. Every time. End of story. And even when the pickings are on the slim side, there's always a sweet payoff somewhere along the line.
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More often than not, Ryan Adams' prolificacy-- check the three full-length records he released in 2005 alone-- is snorted away as a feat of spectacular cockiness, worthy only of eye-rolls and disenchanted sighs. Adams' avalanching output certainly perverts common notions about art-as-pain, perplexing folks who think songwriting should be all clenched fists and bloody fingernails-- but no matter where you land on Adams' preposterous pacing, there's still something compelling (fearless, even) about the display.
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Ryan Adams could have been forgiven for not releasing the last of the three records he promised for 2005. After Cold Roses and Jacksonville City Nights provided two decidedly positives steps in the singer/songwriter's much needed return to form, Adams takes an unfortunate stumble with this latest set, produced by Heartbreaker cohort Ethan Johns.
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