Artist.......: Ryan Adams
Album........: Live de la Semaine
Label........: n/a
Genre........: Rock
Catnr........: n/a
Source.......: DVBS
Rip.date.....: 2011-12-10
Str.date.....: 2011-11-00
Quality......: 202kbps/48.0kHz/Joint Stereo
Url..........: http://www.myspace.com/ryanadams
track title time
1. Live de la Semaine 31:50
* Intro
* Lucky now
* Ashes & fire
* Dirty rain
* Sweet carolina
* Invisible riverside
* I love you but I don't know what to say
* New York, New York
* Ending
Runtime 31:50
Size 46.18
Release Notes:
Mixing the heartfelt angst of a singer/songwriter with the cocky brashness of a
garage rocker, Ryan Adams is at once one of the few artists to emerge from the
alt-country scene to achieve mainstream commercial success and the one who most
strongly refused to be defined by the genre, leaping from one spot to another
stylistically while following his increasingly prolific muse. Adams was born in
Jacksonville, North Carolina in 1974. While country music was a major part of
his family's musical diet when he was young (he's cited Loretta Lynn, George
Jones, Merle Haggard, and Johnny Cash as particular favorites), in his early
teens Adams developed a taste for punk rock and began playing electric guitar.
At 15, Adams started writing songs, and a year later he formed a band called the
Patty Duke Syndrome; Adams once described PDS as "an arty noise punk band," with
Hⁿsker Dⁿ frequently cited as a key influence and reference point. The Patty
Duke Syndrome developed a following in Jacksonville, and when Adams was 19 the
band relocated to the larger town of Raleigh, North Carolina in hopes of
expanding its following. However, Adams became eager to do something more
melodic that would give him a platform for his country and pop influences. In
1994, Adams left the Patty Duke Syndrome and formed Whiskeytown with guitarist
Phil Wandscher and violinist Caitlin Cary. With bassist Steve Grothman and
drummer Eric "Skillet" Gilmore completing the lineup, Whiskeytown (the name came
from regional slang for getting drunk) released their first album, Faithless
Street, on the local Mood Food label.
The album won reams of critical praise in the music press, and more than one
writer suggested that Whiskeytown could do for the alt-country or No Depression
scene what Nirvana had done for grunge. But by the time Whiskeytown had signed
to a major label -- the Geffen-distributed imprint Outpost Records -- the band
had undergone the first in a series of major personal shakeups, and in the
summer of 1997, when Whiskeytown's Outpost debut, Stranger's Almanac, was ready
for release, Adams and Wandscher were the only official members of the group
left. Cary soon returned, but Wandscher left shortly afterward, and Whiskeytown
had a revolving-door lineup for much of the next two years, with the band's live
shows become increasingly erratic, as solid performances were often followed by
noisy, audience-baiting disasters. Consequently, as strong as Stranger's Almanac
was, Whiskeytown never fulfilled the commercial expectations created for them by
others. In 1999, the band -- which was down to Adams, Cary, and a handful of
session musicians -- recorded its third and final album, Pneumonia, but when
Geffen was absorbed in a merger between PolyGram and Universal, Outpost was
phased out, and the album was shelved; shortly afterward, Whiskeytown quietly
called it quits.
Following Whiskeytown's collapse, Adams wasted no time launching a career apart
from the band, and after a few solo acoustic tours, Adams went into a Nashville
studio with songwriters Gillian Welch and David Rawlings and cut his first album
under his own name, Heartbreaker, which was released by pioneering "insurgent
country" label Bloodshot Records in 2000. The album received critical raves,
respectable sales, and a high-profile endorsement from Elton John, and Adams was
signed by Universal's new Americana imprint, Lost Highway Records. Lost Highway
gave Whiskeytown's Pneumonia a belated release in early 2001, and later that
same year the label released his second solo set, Gold, which displayed less of
a country influence in favor of classic pop and rock styles of the 1970s. In the
wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks, the album's opening track, "New
York, New York," was embraced by radio as an anthem of resilience (though it
actually concerned a busted romance), and Adams once again found himself touted
as "the next big thing."
Always a prolific songwriter, in a bit more than a year following Gold's
release, Adams had written and recorded enough material for four albums. He
opted to whittle the 60 tunes down to a 13-song collection called Demolition,
which was released in 2002 as he went into the studio to record his official
follow-up to Gold. A year later, Adams' concept album Rock n Roll was released
alongside the double-EP collection Love Is Hell. Tours around the globe kept
Adams busy into the next year as he maintained momentum writing songs and
keeping his ever-changing presence in the music press. In May 2005, Adams
released his first of three albums for Lost Highway, the melancholic double-disc
Cold Roses. Jacksonville City Nights, a more classic-sounding honky tonk effort,
followed in September, and 29 appeared in late December. Always prolific, in the
interim period before his next album was released Adams posted a large selection
of tracks -- including several hip-hop tunes -- on his website, but fans were
greeted with more straightforward material on 2007's Easy Tiger and 2008's
Cardinology with the Cardinals.
Adams decided to disband the Cardinals in 2009, precipitating an unusual period
of quiet from the prolific singer/songwriter. He slowly returned to active duty
in 2010, releasing the heavy metal Orion on vinyl-only in the summer and then
issuing III/IV -- a double album recorded with the Cardinals during the Easy
Tiger sessions -- in November. For his 13th solo album, 2011's Ashes and Fire,
the singer/songwriter recruited Norah Jones and Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers'
keyboard player Benmont Tench, as well as legendary producer Glyn Johns, who
helmed the Who classic WhoÆs Next.