my morning jacket und ours bitte nicht vergessen!
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29 – Sunday Times (UK)
CD of the Week: Ryan Adams: 29
Who knows what Ryan Adams is planning for 2006? He released three albums
last year, of which this, slipped out almost apologetically just before the
Christmas break, is easily the most intriguing. As an unwitting exemplar of
contemporary society’s problems with choice, Adams is the new century’s
answer to Prince. Yet by showering us with constant updates from every last
nook and cranny of his creativity, Adams befuddles more than he beguiles,
and the mouth no longer waters at the prospect. That may change with 29. For
Adams is breaking hearts again, most often his own: reunited with the
producer Ethan Johns, he is haunted by romantic misfortunes and numbed by
the mark they have made on him as he enters his thirties. There is humour
here, but the tone is best summed up by the title track’s admission that
„Most of my friends are married and making them babies/To most of them I
already died“, to a jagged blues. Sublime. Four stars
Raleigh Newspaper top 10 records for 2005
On rock
David Menconi, Staff Writer
Ryan Adams made a brilliant album last year. Unfortunately, the former Raleigh resident spread it over three different releases. But within the four discs and 41 songs of „Cold Roses,“ „Jacksonville City Nights“ and „29“ is the great solo album that Adams‘ fans have been waiting for ever since Whiskeytown broke up. And it was good enough to top my list of the year’s best.
1.Ryan Adams, „29 Cold Jacksonville Roses“ (iPod version). Given the music industry’s trend away from physical product, it’s fitting that this year’s best album exists only as sound files on an iPod. I’m still toying with the sequence, but my version of „Ryan Circa 2005“ has seven songs from the double-disc „Cold Roses“ and three each from the overtly honky-tonky „Jacksonville City Nights“ and the miserably sad „29.“ If you spend enough time with all three albums, I bet you’ll pick the same 13 songs I did. Make your own and we’ll see how they match up.
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Dirty, dirty feet from the concert in the grass / I wanted to believe that freedom there could last (Willy Mason)