Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker
  • To Be Young (Is To Be Sad, Is To Be High)
  • Oh My Sweet Carolina
  • Damn, Sam (I Love A Woman That Rains)
  • Shakedown On 9th Street
  • My Winding Wheel
  • To Be Young (Is To Be Sad, Is To Be High)
    Genre: Acoustic Country
    MP3 (03:04) [7.04 MB]
  • Oh My Sweet Carolina
    Genre: Acoustic Country
    MP3 (04:57) [11.35 MB]
  • Damn, Sam (I Love A Woman That Rains)
    Genre: AAA
    MP3 (02:09) [4.91 MB]
  • Shakedown On 9th Street
    Genre: Rock
    MP3 (02:53) [6.6 MB]
  • My Winding Wheel
    Genre: Acoustic Country
    MP3 (03:13) [7.37 MB]
Biography
Former singer/guitarist/songwriter for critical darlings Whiskeytown, Ryan Adams really hit his stride with his debut solo recordings on Bloodshot. People trip over themselves in descriptive reveries. The next Dylan, the next Westerberg, the next Springsteen, the next flame out and die before his time rock star tragedy. Can we stop it already? Let’s let him be Ryan, which is damn well good enough, all right?

Heart on his sleeve, punk spirit, closet folkie, can write lyrics that beat anything else you might be listening to on the hit parade this or any other day. He’s got all the goods. You can hear him here without all the big label bells, whistles, tour buses and actresses on his arms. We’ve got him with just his songs, some bad-ass backing musicians, and the guts he pours into his lyrics—it’s all here in its ragged glory.

Yeah, He’s been on Saturday Night Live, the sides of buses in GAP ads, and shared the stage with Sheryl Crow, Elton John AND the Rolling Stones, recorded with Willie Nelson and America, and been nominated for Grammys. He's been blacklisted and backlashed and had lots of dumb stuff in the papers and blogs written about him. All those garish trappings of pop stardom, and we STILL love him. Why? Because we know what a pussycat he really is and, when you strip away all the public personae sideshows, we remember him for the wide-eyed music super fan who just wanted to make more (and more) music, and whose ear for a hook and a single crushing lyric image is nigh unsurpassed.

We think he delivers on this passion in spades.
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  • Members:
    Ryan Adams, David Rawlings, Gillian Welch, Emmmylou Harris
  • Sounds Like:
    Ryan Adams
  • Influences:
    Whiskeytown
  • AirPlay Direct Member Since:
    01/20/09
  • Profile Last Updated:
    08/15/23 08:29:27

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