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...polished, commercial album. But don’t confuse “commercial” with selling out. By commercial I simply mean an album that’s well-mixed, well-edited, and heavily coated in spacious reverb. Adams has been a prolific songwriter since his days with Whiskeytown, releasing albums left and right, focusing more attention on the material than the finished product. This album may just be a turning point in his career. From the first bar of “Born Into a Light,” it’s clear that this album...
...little bit country, and he's a little bit rock 'n' roll. Don't confuse him with Canadian pop-rocker Bryan (Cuts Like a Knife) Adams--the two are no relation, by blood or by music. Ryan, 26, the former lead singer for the alt-country band Whiskeytown, writes songs that have the passion of youth and a melancholy that one might think would be beyond his years. Sometimes he sounds like the old Bruce Springsteen; other times he sounds like a new Hank Williams. Adams' last album, Heartbreaker (2000), was released on a small label, and few fans heard...
...Ryan Adams, "Heartbreaker" An old soul in a young man's frame, the former front man for Whiskeytown escapes typical record-company cranial paralysis with this fine solo outing on the Bloodshot label, home to some of Americana's brighter young lights (see below). The studio banter that kicks things off typifies the spontaneity of the whole affair, which has a refreshingly live quality reminiscent (sometimes quite deliberately so) of "Bringing It All Back Home"-era Dylan. But the melancholy turn of the best tracks, especially "Amy," are what really earns this boy his stripes, and his CD its title...
...Seashore, N.C.; Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Mich.; Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, Ind.; Oregon Dunes National Seashore, Ore.; Great Basin National Park, Nev.; Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Texas; Spruce Knob, Seneca Rocks National Recreation Area, W.Va.; Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area, Mont.-Wyo.; Flaming Gorge National Recreation, Utah-Wyo.; Whiskeytown-Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area, Calif...
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