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February 16, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Ryan Adams: Prisoner
Ryan Adams Prisoner Blue Note The best anyone can want for (and from) Ryan Adams these days is consistency. And he finds it here – perhaps ironically – when contemplating the recent upheaval of a failed marriage. Prisoner, arriving nearly two decades later, is the flip-side, in some ways, to debut solo album Heartbreaker. You […]Archive
September 17, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
Ryan Adams: Ryan Adams
Ryan Adams Ryan Adams Blue Note/Universal Remember on Gold – the album that really announced Ryan Adams to the world (if you think about the inclusion of songs from that on movie soundtracks, if you think that people were still just catching up with Heartbreaker and/or Whiskeytown, often after hearing Gold) – he had this […]Archive
March 17, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
Jason Isbell: Southeastern
Jason Isbell Southeastern Southeastern Records Jason Isbell is writing songs, at 35, that suggest a whole lot of life experience. That and, as we’re told on the opening cut of this wonderful recent album, Cover Me Up, he’s facing his demons as early as he can. In a song about sobering up, on a record […]Archive
February 28, 2013 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1412
Ryan Adams, Demolition (2002) It’s amazing what time will do – I had this album, vinyl, sealed, from the time it was released. And at that time I a) didn’t have a turntable and b) figured I might start a time-capsule type-thing. The idea was to once or twice a year get an album from […]Archive
November 27, 2011 by Simon Sweetman