LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Ryan Adams
built 281 days ago
For an album named Rock N Roll, Ryan Adams's third proper solo release is a difficult and dense listening experience. It takes many repeated spins to transcend the insider rock nods to get to the point where one can enjoy this album as its own entity. Throughout this album, the consistent theme is that the much-chronicled lawman of Whiskeytown wants to leave his alt-country history behind him in the dusty south and recreate himself with his move to gleaming Apple in the north. The question remains: will his followers, critics, and money men follow?
Source:
Ryan Adams is considering recording a new album with his former band, Whiskeytown, according to a recent posting on his own message board. In the message, Adams claims to be "thinking about doing something with Caitlin [Cary] and Skillet [Gillmore], a secret record, a Whiskeytown record for ourselves."
Source:
"Easy Tiger" is an exceptional album; Ryan Adams has reached a new level as an artist. Every song on the album is brilliantly crafted, every emotional note expressed musically or lyrically is pitch perfect. As great as so much of his prior work has been, much of it seems affected, as if he wanted to prove the breadth of his musical range and the inexhaustibility of his lyrical imagination. On this album, he does what great musical artists do - he recedes behind songs that transport the listener to a different place. The critics have not been so kind, but read their reviews - they have all written the same review, and it is the same review they have written for all of his previous records. One might make the same criticism of these critics that they make of Adams - they seem to believe that their every thought... poorly informed, is worthy of speaking, writing, and sharing with the world.
Source:
Right on the heels of Ryan Adams' summer release Easy Tiger, the rocker will release a new EP with his backing band the Cardinals, titled Follow The Light. The EP, a collection of old and live recordings ... features 2 new songs, the title track and "My Love For You Is Real." Both new tracks will also be played on some totally cheesy ABC series, October Road, when the show premiers on November 26th. Follow The Light hits stores on October 23rd. MORE
Source:
Ryan Adams was born in Jacksonville, NC, in 1974. While country music was a major part of his family's musical diet when he was young (he's cited Loretta Lynn, George Jones, Merle Haggard, and Johnny Cash as particular favorites), in his early teens Adams developed a taste for punk rock and he began playing electric guitar. At 15, Adams started writing songs, and a year later he formed a band called the Patty Duke Syndrome; Adams once described PDS as "an arty noise punk band," with Hüsker Dü frequently cited as a key influence and reference point. The Patty Duke Syndrome developed a following in Jacksonville, and when Adams was 19 the band relocated to the larger town of Raleigh, NC, in hopes of expanding its following. However, Adams became eager to do something more melodic that would give him a platform for his country and pop influences. In 1994, Adams left the Patty Duke Syndrome and formed Whiskeytown with guitarist Phil Wandscher and violinist Caitlin Cary.
Source:
Ryan Adams was born on November 5, 1974 to Susan and Robert Adams, in Jacksonville, North Carolina. His father left home when he was nine years old. His mother, an English teacher, encouraged Adams to read, and as a child he became familiar with the works of authors including Jack Kerouac, Edgar Allan Poe, Sylvia Plath and Henry Miller.[1]
Source:
MORE ABOUT
Ryan Adams