Ryan Adams

[Teeeeeekay]

I'm sorry but his T. Swift album blows. Snooze fest.

I thoroughly enjoy Cold Roses, Jacksonville, and the new live album though.

[verb_to_trust]

Yeah it didnt have much staying power with me either. Meh...I hope it got him laid.

[psychobain]

no staying power, still enjoyed it

clean is a beauty

[Teeeeeekay]

no staying power, still enjoyed it

clean is a beauty

Her version is. His is not.

[wilkins]

coming from a mostly non fan, he was the highlight of Bridge School Benefit this weekend. No Taylor Swift songs though.

Agreed!

Loved this tune, but it's one of my favourite Dead tunes.

[zeb]

Blue Sky Blues is a nice little tune.

[verb_to_trust]

29 and Cold Roses get the most spins at this point for me.

[Kevin Davis]

I really like "29."

[verb_to_trust]

Yeah the title track kicking off the record used to throw me off a little but it really flows together well for me now. Also love the artwork.

[given2trade]

29 and Cold Roses get the most spins at this point for me.

That year is truly mind boggling...he also released JCN. All three the same year or close to it. All are amazing.

[verb_to_trust]

Yeah JCN is pretty great too you just have to be in the mood for that flavor.

[LetMeSleep]

I never really got 29, JCN is half really good and CR is pretty phenomenal.

[zeb]

http://www.stereogum.com/1709347/watch- ... you/video/

[verb_to_trust]

So now its cool to cop Bryan Adams style? Ryan's cocked out reverby sound totally makes sense when taking into consideration his genre flip floppery.

[zeb]

Pretty sure he said in print in the last twelve months that he doesn't like country music.

[zeb]

Yep.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/bobmehr/at-home-kinda-with-ryan-adams#.elpNOpmEn

In 1994 he formed Whiskeytown. As Adams would famously declare in the group’s musical manifesto “Faithless Street”: “I started this damn country band, ‘cause punk rock was too hard to sing.” Today Adams says the foundational conceit behind the band was a pose — something his more strident critics accused him of at the time. “There’s this wrong idea about me being identified with things that are Southern or country,” he notes. “I do not fucking like country music and I don’t own any of it. I watched Hee-Haw as a kid with my grandmother, I only like country music as an irony. I liked it when I would get drunk.”

And yet, Adams excelled at writing songs that captured the downbeat essence of the genre: small-town picaresques, studies of drunken ennui, tales of soured romance. “I suppose playing country music felt like learning how to build a beautiful bookshelf or something,” he says. “There was a certain amount of honesty that had to be there and it had to hurt. I loved the discipline of that. It reminded me of the challenge of playing punk rock. But me playing country music … it was a false face. It was style appropriation.”

[Strat]

what was that leaked album that got out a few years ago? maybe around 2009. it was under a different name but had a bunch of tracks that ended up on III/V? I know sewers at the bottom of the wishing well was on it. If I remember correctly, Ryan may have leaked it through his paxam website under a different name. Anyone recall?

[verb_to_trust]

Ryan blocked me from his fb page for saying Warrant's 80s smash hit Cherry Pie was sexist. I think it's safe to say he's into a lot of bad music and probably doesn't regard country as anything other than a means to an end for him.

[surfndestroy]

Ryan blocked me from his fb page for saying Warrant's 80s smash hit Cherry Pie was sexist. I think it's safe to say he's into a lot of bad music and probably doesn't regard country as anything other than a means to an end for him.

I'm not sure how anyone can say a tongue in cheek song is sexist. Looking at the lyrics, where is the sexism? It doesn't put down women in any way.

She's my cherry pie
Cool drink of water such a sweet surprise
Tastes so good makes a grown man cry
Sweet Cherry Pie
Swingin' on the front porch
Swingin' on the lawn
Swingin' where we want
'Cause there ain't nobody home
Swingin' to the left
And swingin' to the right
If I think about baseball
I'll swing all night yea
Swingin' in the living room
Swingin' in the kitchen
Most folks don't 'cause
They're too busy bitchin'
Swingin' in there 'cause
She wanted me to feed her
So I mixed up the batter
And she licked the beater
I scream you scream
We all scream for her
Don't even try 'cause
You can't ignore her
She's my cherry pie
Cool drink of water
Such a sweet surprise
Tastes so good
Make a grown man cry
Sweet cherry pie oh yea

[William Bloke]

Yeah, that's sexy-ist, not sexist.