Adams, Ryan - Heartbreaker (2004)

Album details
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab    Ref#: 0714
Date: 2004   Category: Man
Length: 0:00   Textbox 1: 2004
Format: SACD   Editie uit jaar:  
Audio: Stereo   Aankoop in jaar: 2006
Genre:     Collectors Item: No

Notes/Reviews
Heartbreaker opens with an argument about a Morrissey song before the band kicks into the sloppy and rollicking "To Be Young (Is to Be Sad, Is to Be High)," and certainly the gloomster's self-referential sadness hangs over Ryan Adams's songs. But Adams, the notoriously raucous frontman for the defunct Whiskeytown, is a country boy at heart if not in attitude, so there is a lingering pastoral beauty that imbues the album with a happy sweetness as well. That, along with Ryan's expressive, gravelly voice (equal parts Paul Westerberg and Merle Haggard), gives Heartbreaker enduring power. --Tod Nelson

Songs/Tracks
1.   (Argument with David Rawlings Concerning Morrissey)  
2.   To Be Young (Is to Be Sad, Is to Be High)  
3.   My Winding Wheel  
4.   AMY  
5.   Oh My Sweet Carolina  
6.   Bartering Lines  
7.   Call Me on Your Way Back Home  
8.   Damn, Sam (I Love a Woman That Rains)  
9.   Come Pick Me Up  
10.   To Be the One  
11.   Why Do They Leave?  
12.   Shakedown on 9th Street  
13.   Don't Ask for the Water  
14.   In My Time of Need  
15.   Sweet Lil Gal (23rd/1st)  

Recording/Credits