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Track Listings
Disc: 1
1 | Magnolia Mountain |
2 | Sweet Illusions |
3 | Meadowlake Street |
4 | When Will You Come Back Home? |
5 | Beautiful Sorta |
6 | Now That You're Gone |
7 | Cherry Lane |
8 | Mockingbirdsing |
9 | How Do You Keep Love Alive |
Disc: 2
1 | Easy Plateau |
2 | Let It Ride |
3 | Rosebud |
4 | Cold Roses |
5 | If I Am A Stranger |
6 | Dance All Night |
7 | Blossom |
8 | Life Is Beautiful |
9 | Friends |
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Product Description
Cold Roses is the first of three Ryan Adams releases this year on Lost Highway Records. September to hit this summer and 29 to hit this fall. The new release, a double CD, features Ryan's new band The Cardinals and was produced by Tom Schick. Ryan & The Cardinals recorded Cold Roses in two different sessions at Loho Studios. Ryan will be touring in the Spring, Summer and Fall. "Let It Ride" is the first single going to AAA in early April.
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"Cold Roses" shows a maturity in Adams that has never been seen before maturity that acknowledges art from kitsch. -- Associated Press - Ryan Releases Best Album Yet
Cold Roses finds Adams in near full bloom. -- People Magazine - 3 1/2 Stars (out of 4) 5/20 Issue
Easily the best solo work he's ever done. It's the kind of thing you put on and leave on. -- Atlanta Journal Constitution * A-
Fans will love the modalities, the sinewy acoustic guitar strums and the don't-give-up-on-love messages. -- Philadelphia Daily News * A-
Songs that pay homage to the dreamy, folk-country psychedelia of the Grateful Dead and Neil Young, exudes honesty, not satire. -- Boston Globe
There's not a bad song...listen to the album straight through and marvel at the variety, sparkle and pure tunefulness. -- USA Today * 3 1/2 Stars!!
About the Artist
Ryan Adams has played in some bands and has made some new albums. He enjoys writing lots of music, and from time to time takes it to the jam. He is currently focused on doing things quietly, without much fuss, in his professional life. He hopes for a calm, cool, meaningful ride in his thirties. Ryan loves his dog and his guitar. He digs comics, coffee and cigs. His favorite foods are, whatever the soup of the day is (as long as its maybe like a vegetable soup, or some sort of clam chowder), and ham and cheese sandwiches. When he falls asleep next to his dog, he thinks to himself that heaven is probably holding hands with your gal by a beautiful lake and laying in the grass with your dog; dreaming of the sky, clouds and the smell of grass and rain.
Ryan likes to think about the solar system, the dynamics of rotation, its effects on binary star systems and if it has linear or emotional effects. He likes to read Ram Dass and loves Ram Dass' voice. He was very moved by Journey of Awakening. Most of the time Ryan isnt thinking at all about music, or the ramifications of playing music, or what that means to others. Instead, he thinks about little things like "I wonder if she would like this?" or "Maybe this is tacky, not that tacky is bad, but it just might not go with her other stuff" or "Why did I used to like the Twilight Zone so much? It gives me tremors. I mean, almost panic attacks. Why cant they just write an episode where everything works out? Where its all okay and people can just sort of be here for a second, breathe and feel some sort of relationship to themselves." You know, normal stuff.
For the most part, Ryan Adams hopes that he can just play some songs and whatever. If thats not okay with someone, thats totally fine, He wont come into their homes and like, jam on top of their TV sets, or in their face wearing nothing but a cowboy belt with gun holsters and womens underwear while screaming "Listen to me...look, look what I did LISTEN TO ME OR PERISH!!!" Then, turn into a gigantic metallic spider and wrap whoever up in electric coils and devour them, only after injecting them with poisons so their insides go to mush.
Well, hes totally not into that at all, and really sort of keeps mostly to himself these days. He knows that everybody thinks that he is some kind of lunatic, and maybe thats so, but as long as its not in someone elses yard, and yeah that happens to everybody once or twice, but really.
Ryan likes Dokken a lot, unapologetically, not that anyone would have to apologize for that. He is currently looking for the deeper meaning in things, trying to belong to the light and not give into meaningless ego drivel. He really hopes for the best.
The Cardinals are his new band. Cold Roses is his new jam. Laters.
Product details
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- Product Dimensions : 4.92 x 5.59 x 0.35 inches; 2.47 Ounces
- Manufacturer : Lost Highway
- Item model number : 2073402
- Original Release Date : 2005
- Date First Available : January 29, 2007
- Label : Lost Highway
- ASIN : B0007YMUZW
- Number of discs : 2
- Best Sellers Rank: #61,771 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl)
- #437 in Alt-Country & Americana (CDs & Vinyl)
- #1,199 in Country Rock (CDs & Vinyl)
- #1,565 in Adult Alternative (CDs & Vinyl)
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I think when Ryan Adams is 60, people will look back at his catalog, and it will be meandering, inconsistent, spotty, unpredictable... and jaw droppingly spectacular. There will be unpopular work-- hell, there might even be an album as ill-conceived as Young's Everybody's Rockin' (or as I called it, Everybody's Whinin'). But there will be five, ten, more albums as transcendent as Déjà Vu, Everybody Knows This is Nowhere, On the Beach, Zuma, Harvest, Tonight's the Night, Ragged Glory. As far as I'm concerned he's got at least three already-- Heartbreaker, the incandescent and classic Gold, and now Cold Roses.
In 2003 I saw Neil Young with his band Crazy Horse, at the age of 58, play an entire concert comprised exclusively of his latest album, which at the time many in the crowd had never heard (indeed it wasn't even out yet.) People were ticked off; someone called out for "Cinnamon Girl," and Young deadpanned, "Sorry, we don't know that one." He did blast off about five chestnuts in his encore. And by the way, the concert was great; the following spring I saw him do it again, but the album was out, people knew the songs, and suddenly everyone loved him again.
I'm listening to a recording of Adams right now from May 12 of this year, and the fans are calling for songs they know. But Adams, stubbornly and with grace, is sticking to his guns, filling the set with new and unfamiliar material from Cold Roses. If you don't want the artist to challenge you, if you want it to be easy, then you probably don't want to follow Ryan Adams, because if you expect the last tour, you will be disappointed. But this is what makes him great, and lies at the core of what I think he has in common with Neil Young.
The first couple of times through Cold Roses, I heard it as a folksy riff on Gold-- less a reinvention of classic rock, more alt.country (whatever that is). But then I read that the new album-- recorded with his new band the Cardinals-- was his homage to American Beauty-era Grateful Dead; think "Uncle John's Band," but more morose. At first I didn't quite believe it... but then I remembered that the last time I saw him live he used the Dead's "Wharf Rat" as a show piece for his set, playing an extended and heartfelt version. And when you open the gatefold of the CD, there as plain as day is a shadow image of a bear handing a rose to a little girl. The only way this could be a more deliberate reference to Grateful Dead iconography would be if instead of a little girl it was a skull.
The album opens with "Magnolia Mountain," which Adams says is about an '80s porn star, but which rings and sobs and lilts and sighs like some great forgotten album track by Van Morrison, Neil Young, the Band, even the Mick Taylor-era Stones. Neil Young could have sung this one on Harvest. First you hear Adams softly count the song in; then a single plaintive acoustic guitar, as the song creeps over you. Cindy Cashdollar's pedal steel, and some combination of her and bassist Catherine Popper's backing vocals, lend color and texture, giving the song-- and indeed the whole album-- a warm organic feel. J.P. Bowersock's lead guitar work is tasteful and never flashy, not entirely unlike, say, James Burton.
The refrain to "Magnolia Mountain" goes like this:
"Lie to me
Sing me a song
Sing me a song until the morning comes
If the morning comes
Will you lie to me
Hold me down till the morning comes
And if the morning comes
Will you lie to me
Will you take me to your bed will you lay me down
Till I'm heavy like the rocks on the riverbed..."
The trick isn't writing lyrics like that. The trick is pulling them off. And damn if Adams isn't just earnest enough to do it.
The songs keep coming, easy as a porch swing, lots of minor chords and strummed guitars. And Cold Roses is a double CD, even though at about 76 minutes it could have all fit on one disc. But instead of giving us a single, overlong song cycle, Adams gives us two beautifully crafted records that each stand alone, or work as a seamless whole. In the CD age, when most albums are too long by 15 minutes, it is a pleasure. And of course, the thing is priced as a single.
It would be easy to call this Adams's Harvest-- and to call Heartbreaker his Tonight's the Night, and Gold his Everybody Knows This is Nowhere-- but that isn't fair to him, any more than it was fair to blame Mantle because he wasn't DiMaggio. Where Adams most evokes Young is in the fact that I have absolutely no idea what his next record will sound like, but I do know I'll buy it the day it comes out. I can be pretty sure that it won't sound like this, though, and that the folks who are booing his shows now because they want to hear the old stuff will be equally vexed come autumn when he's on to the next gig and they want to hear Cold Roses. If you always want to hear the last record, you can't help but be disappointed with a creative soul like Adams.
It is possible that I am just so besotted with the guy that I cannot be objective, although it might help to know that I was less than keen on Rock'n'Roll when it first came out (but crazy for Love is Hell, which came out the same day, and which was the less publicized but far more essential release.) So hey. Don't take my word for it. Check out the sound clips.
My wife, who is oblivious to the music geek world in which I live but who nonetheless has an absolutely golden ear, loved Gold; she said of it in the car one breezy afternoon, "It has the sweet familiar ring of every album you loved as a kid." Precisely. So it augers well that she digs this one a whole lot.
However....with the newly formed Cardinals, Adams seems to be harkening back to his Whiskeytown days. This album (and it's acutally a double album) has a much more alternative country feeling. This isn't a bad thing. He even adds to repetoire of musical diversity pulling from the Eagles (Easy Plateau) and Van Morrison (Dance all Night). I just personally think that he does his best work in the haunting melodies of albums like Demolitions, Gold, and Love is Hell. This is still a pretty good album and definately worth a buy for fans. This is the first of three albums he released in 2005. The flurry of work kind of shows and takes it's toll in this first one. The first half of this double album doesn't hold a candle to the second. I almost wish Amazon let you use half stars because the first half is 3 and the second a 4. All the real standout material like Easy Plateau, Let It Ride, If I Am A Stranger, and Dance All Night come from disc two. Don't let the mixed singles put you off. This is a good album with some real gems. Just don't expect Gold of Love Is Hell. Cold Roses is a very different album.
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Dois discos 180 gramas em capa dupla com um belo acabamento em relevo. Sonoridade digna de um classico. Melhor que esse só o raro e caro love is hell.
輸入盤を所有している。ライナー・ノーツはないが全曲の歌詞がある。“Magnolia Mountain”では、マグノリア・マウンテンに行って、疲れた頭を横にしたいと歌っている。全体的によく様々なメロディを作れるものだと感心した。
内ジャケットのイラスト(Andy West)がかわいい。クマが少女にバラをあげている。ふくろうが飛んでいる。
(あとよく名前に「ブ」を付けられる 笑)Ryan Adamsですが、
彼の本質は多種多様なジャンルをいとも簡単に飲み込んでしまうその感性の高さであると思っています。
前作「Rock N Roll」はリフ主体のシンプルな(でもどこかひとクセある)8ビートを鳴らし、
The StrokesやThe White Stripesといった新世代のガレージ・ロックを意識した作品だったと思います。
更にその後リリースされた「Love Is Hell」では一転、フォーク・カントリー的な弾き語りスタイルをメインとした作風で度肝を抜かれました。
このような彼の性格のひねくれ具合は有名で、とあるラジオ曲のDJはその態度の悪さに「リアムギャラガーよりひどい!」と後で言ったそうです(笑)
そして今作、印象としてはNeil Youngの様な男臭いブルース・ロックが中心となっています。
もっと大袈裟に言えばThe Bandの様な(唄い方はちょっとBright Eyesっぽくなってるかな?)。
本当に、何をやらせてもサマになる人です。
というか、言っちゃいます。
これ、最高傑作かも!?
とにかく声・演奏のハマり具合がハンパじゃありません。才能溢れ出すぎ。
Disc1-2・5とか、Disc2-5・7とか、もう涙腺緩みまくりの名曲オンパレード。
文章がとてもオーバーに聞こえそうで申し訳ないのですが、
それ程強く惹きつけられるような作品だという事をご理解いただければ幸いです。
あと輸入盤ですが、歌詞はしっかり記載されています。