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Heartbreaker / Ryan Adams.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: MusicMusicPublisher number: PAX-AM 056 | Pax Americana1790026480 | Pax AmericanaPublisher: United States: Pax Americana, [2000]Copyright date: ©2000Edition: Deluxe editionDescription: 2 audio discs : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 video discContent type:
  • performed music
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • audio
  • video
Carrier type:
  • audio disc
  • videodisc
Other title:
  • Heart breaker
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
CD 1- Original album: (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 (Emmylou Harris, vocals) -- Bartering lines -- Call me on your way back home -- Damn, Sam (I love a woman that rains) -- Come pick me up (Kim Richey, vocals) -- To be the one -- Why do they leave? (Allison Pierce, vocals) -- Shakedown on 9th Street -- Don't ask for the water -- In my time of need -- Sweet lil gal (23rd/1st).
CD 2- Bonus tracks : Heartbreaker sessions : Hairdresser on fire jam ; To be young (is to be sad, is to be high) ; Petal in a rainstorm ; War horse ; Oh my sweet Carolina ; Come pick me up ; Punk jam ; When the rope gets tight (Alternate) ; When the rope gets tight ; Goodbye honey ; In my time of need -- Pre-album demos. Bartering lines ; Come pick me up ; To be the one ; Don't ask for the water ; In my time of need ; Goodbye honey ; Petal in a rainstorm ; War horse ; Locked away.
DVD : Live The Mercury Lounge - October 20, 2000 Oh my sweet Carolina -- Gimme sunshine -- To be young (is to be sad, is to be high) -- AMY -- Call me on your way back home -- Just like a whore -- Wonderwall -- Damn, Sam (I love a woman that rains) -- Sweet lil gal (23rd/1st) -- Come pick me up -- My winding wheel.
Production credits:
  • Produced by Ethan Johns.
Ryan Adams, vocals, guitars, harmonica, piano, banjo ; Ethan Johns, drums, bass, Chamberlin, glockenspiel, B-3, vibraphone ; David Rawlings, vocals, guitars, banjo, tambourine ; Gillian Welch, vocals, banjo, guitar, electric bass ; Pat Sansone, piano, Chamberlin ; with guest vocalists.Summary: Ryan Adam's first solo album expanded with unreleased outtakes, pre-album demos, exclusive photos, and a never seen before DVD of a solo acoustic club show from 2000.
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Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult CD Adult CD Main Library CD POP/ROCK Adams, Ryan Available 33111009034915
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

As Whiskeytown finally ground to a halt in the wake of an astonishing number of personal changes following Faithless Street (coupled with record company problems that kept their final album, Pneumonia, from reaching stores until two years after it was recorded), Ryan Adams ducked into a Nashville studio for two weeks of sessions with Gillian Welch and David Rawlings. While arch traditionalists Welch and Rawlings would hardly seem like a likely match for alt-country's bad boy, the collaboration brought out the best in Adams; Heartbreaker is loose, open, and heartfelt in a way Whiskeytown's admittedly fine albums never were, and makes as strong a case for Adams' gifts as anything his band ever released. With the exception of the Stones-flavored "Shakedown on 9th Street" and the swaggering "To Be Young (Is to Be Sad, Is to Be High)," Heartbreaker leaves rock & roll on the shelf in favor of a sound that blends low-key folk-rock with a rootsy, bluegrass-accented undertow, and while the album's production and arrangements are subtle and spare, they make up in emotional impact whatever they lack in volume. As a songwriter, Adams concerns himself with the ups and downs of romance rather than the post-teenage angst that dominated Whiskeytown's work, and "My Winding Wheel" and "Damn, Sam (I Love a Woman That Rains)" are warmly optimistic in a way he's rarely been before, while "Come Pick Me Up" shows he's still eloquently in touch with heartbreak. Adams has always been a strong vocalist, but his duet with Emmylou Harris on "Oh My Sweet Carolina" may well be his finest hour as a singer, and the stripped-back sound of these sessions allows him to explore the nooks and crannies of his voice, and the results are pleasing. Whiskeytown fans who loved the "Replacements-go-twang" crunch of "Drank Like a River" and "Yesterday's News" might have a hard time warming up to Heartbreaker, but the strength of the material and the performances suggest Adams is finally gaining some much-needed maturity, and his music is all the better for it. ~ Mark Deming

Compact discs.

DVD.

Ryan Adams, vocals, guitars, harmonica, piano, banjo ; Ethan Johns, drums, bass, Chamberlin, glockenspiel, B-3, vibraphone ; David Rawlings, vocals, guitars, banjo, tambourine ; Gillian Welch, vocals, banjo, guitar, electric bass ; Pat Sansone, piano, Chamberlin ; with guest vocalists.

Produced by Ethan Johns.

Recorded at Woodland Studios, Room A, Nashville, Tenn.

Ryan Adam's first solo album expanded with unreleased outtakes, pre-album demos, exclusive photos, and a never seen before DVD of a solo acoustic club show from 2000.

Set contained in disc holder booklet (13 cm) with notes by Ethan Johns and photographs of Ryan Adams.

CD 1- Original album: (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 (Emmylou Harris, vocals) -- Bartering lines -- Call me on your way back home -- Damn, Sam (I love a woman that rains) -- Come pick me up (Kim Richey, vocals) -- To be the one -- Why do they leave? (Allison Pierce, vocals) -- Shakedown on 9th Street -- Don't ask for the water -- In my time of need -- Sweet lil gal (23rd/1st).

CD 2- Bonus tracks : Heartbreaker sessions : Hairdresser on fire jam ; To be young (is to be sad, is to be high) ; Petal in a rainstorm ; War horse ; Oh my sweet Carolina ; Come pick me up ; Punk jam ; When the rope gets tight (Alternate) ; When the rope gets tight ; Goodbye honey ; In my time of need -- Pre-album demos. Bartering lines ; Come pick me up ; To be the one ; Don't ask for the water ; In my time of need ; Goodbye honey ; Petal in a rainstorm ; War horse ; Locked away.

DVD : Live The Mercury Lounge - October 20, 2000 Oh my sweet Carolina -- Gimme sunshine -- To be young (is to be sad, is to be high) -- AMY -- Call me on your way back home -- Just like a whore -- Wonderwall -- Damn, Sam (I love a woman that rains) -- Sweet lil gal (23rd/1st) -- Come pick me up -- My winding wheel.

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