Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker
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Artist: Ryan AdamsEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2000-09-05
Music Label: Bloodshot Records
Soundtracks:
- (Argument with David Rawlings Concerning Morrissey)
- To Be Young (Is to Be Sad, Is to Be High)
- My Winding Wheel
- AMY
- Oh My Sweet Carolina
- Bartering Lines
- Call Me on Your Way Back Home
- Damn, Sam (I Love a Woman That Rains)
- Come Pick Me Up
- To Be the One
- Why Do They Leave?
- Shakedown on 9th Street
- Don't Ask for the Water
- In My Time of Need
- Sweet Lil Gal (23rd/1st)
Music reviews of Heartbreaker
Music Review: Dully disguising derivative
Rating: 2 Stars
Yes, there is usually an air of disingenuous sincerity present in Adams' aesthetic pursuits of gritty country-rock, but that does not take away from his unique pop songwriting talents to help raise the songs higher. In fact, it is when Adams completely abandons any preconceived notions of "authenticity" and simply follows the melody with conviction that he often records his best work. With Heartbreaker, the overworking artist is nearly in full-on Dylan acoustic mode though, mainly drawing generically unimpressive results, with truly memorable passages such as the chorus of "Come Pick Me Up" being a rarity.
Description of Heartbreaker
Exclusive on off pressing on vinyl limited to 500 copies. This is his solo debut from 2000, recorded in Nashville in 12 days, guest contributions include Emmylou Harris, Gillian Welch & Kim Richey.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
With a touch of Robyn Hitchcock in his vocal timbre, a smidgen of Steve Earle in his narratives and instrumental writing, and a heap of Gram Parsons in the fullness of his overall sound and structure, Ryan Adams steps well above Whiskeytown with Heartbreaker, his solo debut. By turns raucous, wistful, raspy, and simply sweet, Adams makes the most of a top-shelf acoustic band, including Gillian Welch and David Rawlings and even a guest spot from Emmylou Harris on the tenderly yearning "Oh My Sweet Caroline." There's little dependence on the usual alt-country twang and a far more rounded sense of textures here (the multiple vocal tracks on "Amy," for example, sound Beatles-esque), with glockenspiel, organ, and more signaling a sonic field of extensive depth. His spare guitar and stretched-thin vocal delivery alternate smartly with a bigger-shouldered guitar and throaty voice, never leaving behind a band conception straight out of Parsons's oeuvre. Adams signals occupancy of the post-alt-country vanguard--if there is such a thing. --Andy Bartlett
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