Ryan Adams (Official Thread)

**Soot and Stars** · 12-31-2009, 04:28 AM

Ryan Adams

It's hard to believe that more people don't know or give props to this artist because he's one of the most prolific, hardest working, talented artist in music today! In fact, when I first started listening to him I found him at his rock phase. After being Alt-Countries front running artist Ryan had the cajones to drop the genre and come out guns blazing with an album of gritty rock anthems. After that c.d., it was listening to the rest of Ryan's catalog that got me to like alt-country for the first time which is a bridge that neither critic darlings Wilco or Son Volt never had me crossing. Ryan knows how to mix elements of folk, country, bluegrass together with a hard rocking delivery and a Punk attitude. He creates more music than most artist do in their lifetime and it always remains at a quality that both fans and critics have been happy with album after album. In 2005 alone he released three full albums (one containing 2 c.d.s) and each one had a different feel. Ryan bounces between his solo work and his band The Cardinals. By 2007, Ryan had declared himself drug (he did everything from weed to heroin on a regular basis) and alcohol free and it resulted with his most celebrated album in a long time with Easy Tiger. I own every c.d. Ryan has done since 2003 but I'm familiar with and am a fan of his earlier work as well! Here are my music highlights from this amazing artist!

Heartbreaker (his debut)

Come Pick Me Up w/ bonus cover of Down In A Hole
(A note on the cover! Ryan had a heroin addiction just like Layne and I feel like he not only connects with it musically, he also does justice by giving it his own spin)

Gold

When The Stars Go Blue
(covered by Tim McGraw but this is the original and real deal)

Demolition

Desire

The above c.d.s are albums that I don't own and can't represent as well as what I'll present in the next post! I just wanted to give a glimmer of his early work because from Rock N Roll on there is a divide I believe!

**Soot and Stars** · 12-31-2009, 05:05 AM

Rock N Roll (favorite album as well as my intro)

So Alive
(single where admittedly he's channeling Bono but still an awesome song)

This Is It

Anybody Want To Take Me Home

Love Is Hell EPs

(two EPs released as part 1 and Part 2 and later conjoined, Depression at it's most beautiful)

Political Scientist

Wonderwall
(deservedly praised Oasis Cover)

Cold Roses
(Double Album and first with The Cardinals)

Let It Ride
(love this, has a CCR feel with more of a country element)

How Do You Keep Love Alive
(one of my favorite Ryan Adams songs

**Soot and Stars** · 12-31-2009, 05:23 AM

The last batch!

Jacksonville City Nights (also w/ The Cardinals)

Dear John
(may be the only piece of music I ever like that has a contribution from Norah Jones)

29

Elizabeth, You Were Born to play That Part

Easy Tiger

Halloweenhead

I Taught Myself How To Grow Old

Follow the Lights EP
(also with The Cardinals, this is the c.d. the Alice In Chains cover was released on)

Follow The Lights

Cardinology
(obviously w/ The Cardinals)

Fix It

I know it seems like I've posted everything you can hear from this guy but this is only the tip of the iceberg! Feel free to explore for yourself!

Oblivion · 12-31-2009, 06:47 AM

I have the heartbreaker album

Good album.. I'll have to get them all now.

**METALPRIEST** · 01-01-2010, 08:02 AM

Nice thread!!

**Soot and Stars** · 01-01-2010, 09:20 AM

Originally Posted by Oblivion

I have the heartbreaker album

Good album.. I'll have to get them all now.

Originally Posted by METALPRIEST

Nice thread!!

Thanks guys! I saw Ryan live and it's funny because it was during his Rock N Roll era but he didn't play a single song from it. It was all older songs from his catalog and newer songs that he wrote since forming his project with a band, The Cardinals. I was lost as far as knowing the material at the time but the show was performed great and I saw that he had a shitload of great material to discover from that point on.

bobbyg29 · 01-22-2010, 09:04 PM

HUGE Ryan Adams fan. Heartbreaker and Cold Roses are my favorite official albums of his but he also has so much great unreleased material. Here are my favorites:

One for the KISS maniacs here:

and..

Will post some of my favorite tracks later...

**Soot and Stars** · 01-22-2010, 09:11 PM

Originally Posted by bobbyg29

HUGE Ryan Adams fan. Heartbreaker and Cold Roses are my favorite official albums of his but he also has so much great unreleased material. Here are my favorites:

One for the KISS maniacs here:

and..

Will post some of my favorite tracks later...

Thanks for adding!

How can I get those albums? Does it have to be through a torrent or something?

bobbyg29 · 01-22-2010, 09:18 PM

Originally Posted by Soot and Stars

Thanks for adding!

How can I get those albums? Does it have to be through a torrent or something?

Not sure how you feel about posting links to music on this board? This is all unreleased so there are no copyright issues that I know of. Let me know if you would rather I not post this kind of stuff and I will remove it...

Here you go (they are not torrents, just zipped files). This should keep you busy for awhile

**Soot and Stars** · 01-22-2010, 09:37 PM

Originally Posted by bobbyg29

Not sure how you feel about posting links to music on this board? This is all unreleased so there are no copyright issues that I know of. Let me know if you would rather I not post this kind of stuff and I will remove it...

Here you go (they are not torrents, just zipped files). This should keep you busy for awhile

I'm going to leave them and see what the others say about it in the morning. I haven't been specifically told not to let someone leave music links especially ones who are obviously here to be a contributing member. By the way, MUCH appreciated!

Craig in Indy · 02-09-2010, 11:42 AM

I'd heard so much about him for so long that when sifting through CDs at our local library and found a bunch of his, I decided to check them out. So far I've only heard Follow the Lights and I like it a lot. And he's one of the few artists I can actually get from this very lame (but very cheap - $6.95 w free shipping) record club I belong to, so I guess I'll be stocking up.

For some reason I'm thinking my wife and I saw him perform at the Indiana State Fair a number of years ago, but I could be wrong. At any rate, there's something very familiar about his singing voice, and I can't quite place it.

**Soot and Stars** · 08-07-2010, 09:21 AM

Since this thread I've acquired every official studio album from Ryan Adams! A great catalog from an amazing artist!

Here are some more gems:

Magick

When The Music Don't Come

Call Me On Your Way Back Home

**Soot and Stars** · 12-14-2010, 05:07 AM

I must get the new double album of rarities by Ryan Adams!!!!!

Ryan Adams-III/IV
(Cool Cover)

Here's are some cool tracks I found off of it!

Ultraviolet Light and The Crystal Skull

Sunny · 12-17-2010, 12:27 AM

I don't think I have heard his music before and I like what I hear

Will have to track down an album or two.

**Soot and Stars** · 12-17-2010, 02:45 AM

Sunny my favorite album of his is Rock N' Roll which was a break in style for him but my favorite album of his to check out is Cold Roses which has some of his best Alt-Country on it IMO! Feel free to let me know what you think if you get to check any of his albums out!