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Nice performance. Could have been lip synced for all I can tell. Glad to see Ryan'splaying guitar again, after his accident.
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Easy Tiger
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AMG Review of Easy Tiger
Stephen Thomas Erlewine
All Music GuideEasy Tiger has a "slow it down there, pal" undertone to its title -- and who needs a word of caution other than Ryan Adams himself, who notoriously spread himself far and wide in the years following his 2000 breakthrough Heartbreaker. After celebrating his 30th birthday with a flurry of albums in one year, Adams decided to pull back, hunker down, and craft one solid album that deliberately plays to his strength. As such, Easy Tiger could easily be seen as the album that many of his fans have wanted to hear since Heartbreaker, a record that is tight and grounded in country-rock. Easy Tiger is focused, but so have been some of the other thematic albums Adams has delivered with such gusto -- when he tried to run with the Strokes on Rock N Roll, mimicked the Smiths and Jeff Buckley on Love Is Hell, even turned out a full-on country album in Jacksonville City Nights, complete with knowing retro cover art, he stayed true to his concept -- but the cumulative effect of the records was to make him seem scattered, even if the records could work on their own merits. With each album since the wannabe blockbuster of 2001's Gold, his restlessness has seemed not diverse but reckless, so even his good albums seemed to contribute to the mess. Easy Tiger intends to break this perception by being concise, right down to how every one but one of these tight 13 songs clock in somewhere between the two-and-a-half and three-and-a-half minute mark. For somebody as doggedly conceptual as Adams, this is surely a deliberate move, one designed to shore up support among supporters (no matter if they're fans or critics), which Easy Tiger very well might. Surely, it is a welcoming album in many ways, partially due to the relaxed Deadhead vibe Adams strikes up with his band the Cardinals, reminiscent of 2005's fine Cold Roses. But if that CD sprawled, this one is succinct, as Adams flits through country-rockers and weepers -- plus the occasional ock detour, like anthemic '80s arena rocker "Halloween Head" or the spacy "The Sun Also Sets," a dead ringer for Grant Lee Phillips -- containing not an ounce of fat. Adams benefits from the brevity, most notably on the sweetly melancholy "Everybody Knows," the straight-up country of "Tears of Gold," or on "Two," which mines new material out of the timeworn "two become one" conceit. Here, his songs don't stick around longer than necessary, so they linger longer in memory, but the relentless onward march of Easy Tiger also gives the performances an efficiency bordering on disinterest, which is its Achilles' heel. As fine as some of the songs are, as welcoming as the overall feel of the record is, it seems a bit like Adams is giving his fans (and label) "Ryan Adams by numbers," hitting all the marks but without passion. This is when his craft learned from incessant writing kicks in -- he can fashion these tunes into something sturdy and appealing -- but it also highlights how he can turn out a tune as lazily as he relies on casual profanity to his detriment. Ultimately, these flaws are minor, since Easy Tiger delivers what it promises: the most Ryan Adamsy Ryan Adams record since his first. For some fans, it's exactly what they've been waiting for, for others it'll be entirely too tidy, but don't worry -- if Adams has proven to be anything it's reliably messy, and he's sure to get ragged again somewhere down the road (and based on his past record, safe money is on October 2007).
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Taming the Tiger
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Ryan Adams is prolific. Not that I’d hold it against the guy. The North Carolina-born singer-songwriter-instrumentalist has knocked out nine studio albums – of varying, but generally high quality – under his own name since his (I hate this term, but am resigned to using it) “alt-country” band Whiskeytown fell by the wayside in 1999. And Easy Tiger - Adams’ latest collection of melodiou
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A Short Love Letter To A Man Who Don't Need It
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HOLY SHIT RYAN ADAMS. EASY TIGER IS SO GOOD.It's pretty without being delicate! It's country without leaving urban life behind! It's other things that make me want to scream and shout and dance and cry and twist in circles and do other stuff that people do when they're really excited about things.It doesn't make me want to sit very still though. But that's what his other songs are for.I feel as...
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Prolific Troubador shows restraint, maturity on new LPIt’s become almost a sport to bash Ryan Adams. Not that he has tried at all to make it easy on himself. Boorish concert behavior, drunken telephone tirades to critics, and releasing slap dash albums seemingly just because he can. But in the 18 (gasp! Has it ben that long?) Months since the release of the brooding, quiet 29, we’ve not hea
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Tour Dates: Ryan Adams & The Cardinals
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--- - |- The "Ryan Adams Plays Everywhere But Los Angeles" tour kicks off in a couple weeks and are potentially in support of a rumored new Cardinals album where Ryan will share vocal and songwriting duties with his bandmates. So, uh, kind of a bummer of a post, huh? Dates after the jump. [Continue reading...] 08-23 San Francisco, CA - Fillmore 08-26 Seattle, WA - WaMu Theater * 08-27 Va...
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Taming the Tiger
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Ryan Adams is prolific. Not that I’d hold it against the guy. The North Carolina-born singer-songwriter-instrumentalist has knocked out nine studio albums – of varying, but generally high quality – under his own name since his (I hate this term, but am resigned to using it) “alt-country” band Whiskeytown fell by the wayside in 1999. And Easy Tiger - Adams’ latest collection of melodiou
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Ryan Adams New Album is Aptly-Titled "Easy Tiger"
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“I snorted heroin a lot — with coke. I did speedballs every day for years. And took pills. And then drank. And I don’t mean a little bit. I always outdid everybody.” Something from the likes of Scott Weiland? Keith Richards? No, actually Ryan Adams - the Grateful Dead loving singer-songwriter who releases his latest foray into neo folk-rock with the aptly-titled Easy Tiger a week from toda
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Thank you to the Mog Collective - 2nd ed.
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I have caught the Ryan Adams bug, and I must express my gratitude to you all for passing on this affliction. It took me until _Easy Tiger_...specifically "Halloweenhead". WOW. This song has gotten so many plays in the past 7 months. I still get a thrill when I hear that intro bell chime...and the fact that he announces the guitar solo makes me smile every damn time :O)After I was satisfied ...
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And the sun will come up again
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"We're going to win,put your troubles behind you,and go on to bedLet go of the worry.There's so much nobody understands.Don't live your life in such a hurry,life goes by us all so fast.And the sun will come up again.And I will be here.If you get scared just hold my hand.Tomorrow is yours and who knows,maybe we'll win the whole shabang"'Goodnight Rose (live)' ~ Ryan Adams & the CardinalsThis is ...
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Goodnight (Ryan), this Bar is Closed....
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Now I'm not very excited about my decision to pass on February Ryan Adams tickets. But there comes a time in a man's life (and I'm talking Ryan, here), where he needs to walk away from his labour of love. Goodnight Ryan. Thanks for the wonderful times you've given me. Now, I'll have to enjoy them solely through the headphones, and never again through the amplifiers. So be it. That's the way...
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Ryan Adams covers Alice In Chains??
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Sunday is for covers, but I can't wait. Plus, I'm never around on Sundays!Couldn't resist the photographic pun....Ryan Adams covering Alice In Chains (of all bands, right?) in Kingston, NY last week.Also, have you all heard the tracks off of the new album? (A little poppy, am I right?)
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Another new Ryan Adams track
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This may be my favorite one off of the new album. Reminds me of the best parts of Demolition and Jacksonville City Nights...
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Ryan Adams Web Exclusive : Live On Letterman
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A short post today to keep you all up-to-date and in-line with my Ryan Adams obsession.I'm gonna enter a 12 step program one of these days....Ryan Adams and the Cardinals Live on Letterman: performing 'How To Keep Love Alive' and 'Pearls On A String'Powered by ScribeFire.
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Ryan Revisited: Henry Rollins Show 4-20-2007 performing "Goodnight Rose"
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Very, very GD inspired, and amazing. The jamming at the beginning of the song is vintage Dead. The performance is a tiny bit looser than on _Easy Tiger_ [a good thing, for me], and takes the song to a new level. This originally aired in April so if you've seen this a hundred times, oh well. If it's new to you, I certainly hope you enjoy.http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid348520221...
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Ryan Adams on Leno last night
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Nice performance. Could have been lip synced for all I can tell. Glad to see Ryan'splaying guitar again, after his accident.
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Prolific Troubador shows restraint, maturity on new LPIt’s become almost a sport to bash Ryan Adams. Not that he has tried at all to make it easy on himself. Boorish concert behavior, drunken telephone tirades to critics, and releasing slap dash albums seemingly just because he can. But in the 18 (gasp! Has it ben that long?) Months since the release of the brooding, quiet 29, we’ve not hea
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New Ryan Adams "Halloweenhead" video
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Although Lost Highway has disallowed embedding (is that a word, "disallowed"? Somebody call George Carlin....), you can still stream it here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pd-Z1zjlf8gAny of you that know me, know that this is one of my fav. tracks off of the new album _Easy Tiger_, but I have a weird feeling that Ryan's just sort of MESSIN' with us. It has the same ridiculousness as many of t...
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Stream Ryan Adams' "Everybody Knows"
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Here's a cool track off Ryan Adams' Latest album, Easy Tiger. Listen to the song and then check out Mike the Knife's review:http://mog.com/Mike_the_Knife/blog_post/89740
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i'll try not to bother you, i promise
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some late afternoons are simply meant for ryan adams.lucy.
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