Author: Ryan Adams and The Cardinals

Format: Remixes included

Release Date: 03-05-2005

Details: Product Description 'Cold Roses' is the first of three Ryan Adams releases this year on Lost Highway Records.This new release, a double CD/LP, features Ryan's new band The Cardinals and was produced by Tom Schick. Ryan & The Cardinals recorded Cold Roses in two different sessions at Loho Studios. 2005. Amazon.ca Here is the album that many fans have been hoping Ryan Adams would make since his much heralded emergence with . Though Adams has been as eclectic (and erratic) as prolific over his solo career, this double-disc gem delineates the possibilities of alt-country in 2005 while transcending the limitations typically associated with the genre. The organic arrangements of his new band, the Cardinals, blend acoustic and electric strains, sparked by the interplay between J.P. Bowersock on guitar and alumna Cindy Cashdollar on pedal and lap steel. With the set-opening "Magnolia Mountain," Adams and band draw inspiration beyond the title from the era of 's "Sugar Mountain" and the 's "Sugar Magnolia," though much of what follows shares as much in spirit with (or even the poppier side of ) as it does with retro country-rock. On "Mockingbird Street," Adams builds from the stripped-down intimacy of a heartbeat toward the majesty of an anthem. Except for the rock and roll swagger of "Beautiful Sorta," the material exposes an open-hearted vulnerability, emotions that range from the rapturously romantic ("Cherry Lane") to the tremulously tender ("Mockingbird") to the broodingly bittersweet ("Rosebud"). On the engagingly uptemo "Let It Ride," Adams confesses to "27 years of nothing but failure and promises that I couldn't keep." This release represents promise fulfilled. --Don McLeese Recommended Ryan Adams Albums Heartbreaker Gold Love Is Hell Whiskeytown, Faithless Street Whiskeytown, Stranger's Almanac Whiskeytown, Pneumonia

UPC: 602498805022

EAN: 0602498805022

Languages: English

Binding: Audio CD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood