Post subject: [2011-10-11] Ryan Adams "Ashes & Fire" with guests Norah Jones and Benmont Tench (PAX-AM/Capitol)
Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2011 10:00 am
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1. Dirty Rain 2. Ashes & Fire 3. Come Home - Featuring Norah Jones 4. Rocks 5. Do I Wait 6. Chains Of Love 7. Invisible Riverside 8. Save Me - Featuring Norah Jones 9. Kindness - Featuring Norah Jones 10. Lucky Now 11. I Love You But I Don't Know What To Say
I thought III/IV was great but this is a true return to form. "Lucky Now" is one of the better songs he's done since "Gold".
From Q Magazine: Two years ago, Ryan Adams took up a new pastime: hiking in the Californian mountains. He'd been diagnosed with Meniere's disease, a disorder of the inner ear that affected his hearing and nervous system. Soon, he'd quit working with his band The Cardinals and, in 2010, baffled fans by releasing Orion, a heavy metal concept album recorded four years earlier. Adams seemed to be in need of some peace.
"I'd been sober for many years," he says now. "But in order to survive the Meniere's, I had to give up smoking, pharmaceutical drugs and drinking espresso." Adams found one of the few recreational pursuits that didn't leave him feeling sick and delirious was exercise. His wife actress Mandy Moore, took him walking in the hills. "She just reminded that when I did my first elevation peak I was still smoking," he laughs. "I like to head out to the hills near Dante's Peak. Once you get to the top you can see the ocean and condors, owls and coyotes."
This state calm seems to have fed into Adams's forthcoming album, Ashes & Fire 12 elegant country-rock songs, featuring Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers' organist Benmont Tench and guest co-vocalist Norah Jones. The album also continues Adams's long relationship with the Johns dynasty. Producer Ethan Johns worked with Adams's old band Whiskeytown in 1999. Ethan's father, Glyn Johns, whose credits include The Who and The Rolling Stones, produced Ashes & Fire. "Glyn's a gent," says Adams. "He's working on a book of his life, so I don't want to spoil it by repeating his stories."
After testing his stamina with acoustic UK dates in June ("I had a good night every night"), Adams plans a full UK tour this autumn. He also intends to make this record his prime focus. Unusually there are no plans to release any previously recorded albums or out-takes. "Music was the first thing I loved to do after drawing, making my grandmother laugh and eating cake," he insists. "I think the tag 'prolific' is used to minimalise what I do. I'm always working, but I've decided not to share."
Adams has already shared two books of his poetry and short stories, Infinity Blues and Hello Sunshine. Expect a third, "I'm now writing a novel about a lovable rat. But if I say more it won't happen."
Post subject: [2011-10-11] Ryan Adams "Ashes & Fire" with guests Norah Jones and Benmont Tench (PAX-AM/Capitol)
Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2011 5:07 pm
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Ryan Adams: 'I threw out 80 per cent of my album when I heard Laura Marling'
Ryan Adams has admitted Laura Marling helped inspire his forthcoming new album Ashes & Fire'.
The singer-songwriter said he ditched most of the songs he wrote for his 13th studio album after producer Glyn Jones passed on her 2010 LP 'I Speak Because I Can'.
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I thought: 'For fuck's sake.' I literally threw out 80 per cent of what I had. And it felt good to ask: 'What am I really capable of?' I felt competitive again to write great songs.
Recorded at Hollywood's Sunset Sound Factory, the album will be released on his own label, PAX-AM. Jones worked on Adams' albums 'Heartbreaker', 'Gold' and '29'. He is the son Ethan Johns, who worked with Bob Dylan, The Beatles, The Who and The Rolling Stones.
Adams also revealed how he slipped into a period of heavy drug taking after he was diagnosed with Ménière's disease in 2006. This disease is a degnerative condition which affects hearing and balance.
"All the stuff I was doing exacerbated the disease," he told The Guardian. "You're not supposed to smoke, you're not supposed to drink alcohol, be stressed, eat salty foods. You're probably not supposed to do speedballs.
"I didn't know this at the time, but people have since said they were certain I would die."
But the singer, who has since become sober, said taking opium helped him to write some of his songs. "I fully understand when people say Edgar Allen Poe used to smoke this stuff and have visions," he said. "I wrote the entire song 'How Do You Keep Love Alive' [from 2005's 'Cold Roses'] without writing a word down, and I played it on piano. And I've tried to understand the chord pattern ever since, because I can't fucking play it."
'Ashes & Fire' is released on October 10 and coincides with a series of UK dates.
Post subject: [2011-10-11] Ryan Adams "Ashes & Fire" with guests Norah Jones and Benmont Tench (PAX-AM/Capitol)
Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2011 6:50 pm
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this may be the end of the line for ryan adams and me. just not like he was with whiskeytown and his first couple of solo efforts. he is trying way too hard to be neil young.
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Post subject: [2011-10-11] Ryan Adams "Ashes & Fire" with guests Norah Jones and Benmont Tench (PAX-AM/Capitol)
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Renny wrote:
JoeP wrote:
Neil Young?
I mean some songs definitely have a 70s classic rock sound, but Young doesn't come to mind when I hear him.
no no no, not sound like him, be like him. by changing genre's with every record.
neil did it well, adams does not.
I'm confused why you would choose now to jump off the bandwagon. The songs I've heard so far seem to be a return to the sound of his Heartbreaker/Gold days, so hopefully now we'll have some consistency.
He's a guy with very diverse musical tastes so it makes sense he'd genre hop. It's just a shame that he hasn't ever found a way to meld all of those sounds on one project - rather than every album being different from the last. Gold and Demolition were my favorite records of his because I felt like they stayed true to the core artist but were diverse enough to touch on a bunch of different genres on each album.
As for Neil Young, he definitely did go through a NY phase on Cold Roses, which sounding like Neil Young joined the Grateful Dead.
Post subject: [2011-10-11] Ryan Adams "Ashes & Fire" with guests Norah Jones and Benmont Tench (PAX-AM/Capitol)
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Renny wrote:
i found rock and roll easy tiger jacksonville city nights 29 and III/IV
all to be "one-listen and on the shelf never to be heard again" types of albums.
love, just love whiskeytown, he probably should have kept that band together for an album every 2 or 3 years.
i like the cardinals stuff a lot until II/IV, which, i believe,should not have been released, it sounds unfinished.
if i do buy the new one, i will wait until i see it used.
I agree with you on a lot of those. I've never connected with 29 or JCN and they're easily my least favorite RA albums.
I loved III/IV. I thought it was his best album in years. I despised RnR when it came out but really enjoy it now. If you didn't get RnR, I can understand not liking III/IV - they're somewhat companion albums.
Easy Tiger was fair. Cardinology though was horrid.
I streamed his new one last night and really like it. I was amazed at how familiar the 3 or 4 songs I had already heard seemed. Usually, that's the mark of a great album. It's very soft (I would've liked to have had a bit more of a Gold production to it) but it sounds really good nonetheless.
He seems like he may have finally found himself with this one. Hopefully it's the shape of things to come.
Post subject: [2011-10-11] Ryan Adams "Ashes & Fire" with guests Norah Jones and Benmont Tench (PAX-AM/Capitol)
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I've enjoyed every Ryan Adams release, so far (I never did hear the heavy metal LP). "Ashes & Fire" is very good though a bit more mellow than what I would have preferred. ."Come Home", "Save Me", "I Love You But I Don't Know What To Say", and particularly "Chains Of Love"are my favorite tracks.
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