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Extrait de Follow the Lights EP de Ryan Adams & the Cardinal ( Octobre 2007)
- "Follow the Lights" – 3:03
- "My Love for You Is Real" – 4:52
- "Blue Hotel" – 5:11
- "Down in a hall " – 4:37
- "This Is It" – 3:32
- "If I Am a Stranger" – 4:44
- "Dear John" – 5:12
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Voici l'annoce sur le site officiel de notre ami ryan: Our artist enjoyed blogging at Tumblr but is currently working on his new album and forthcoming book of poetry!
Ainsi que le Bloog personel de l'artiste* : Blog ( ouvert quand il le désire )
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Stephen king grand admirateur de celui qu'il qualifie de meuilleur songwriter d'amérique du nord serait l'auteur d'une biographie de Ryan Adams intitulée "Easy Tiger"! Voici la suite en Anglais :
Those trolling Amazon.com recently in anticipation of easy tiger 's June 26 release may have stumbled across a little nugget of a Product Description whose scribe claims to be King. "I won't say Adams is the best North American singer-songwriter since Neil Young...but I won't say he isn't, either," this King puts forth. "What I know is there has never been a Ryan Adams record quite as strong and together as Easy Tiger."
Turns out that the man behind those words is indeed thee Stephen King, according to Adams' publicist. The two are apparently fans of one another's work, and we suspect, one another's ridiculous prolificacy. And the paragraph-or-so-long Amazon.com bit? It's in fact extracted from an even longer Adams bio/homage penned by King, the full text of which you may peruse after the jump. At least, until the interweb Langoliers gobble it up.
It was, Ryan Adams says, this girl he's been spending time with; the title of this album is her fault. "She wanted to go out to dinner at eight; I wanted to go right away. She said, 'Easy, Tiger.' And that hit me. It stuck with me to the point where I called up Neal [that would be Neal Casal, guitarist of The Cardinals] and left a message on his answering machine with those two words. 'Don't forget this,' I said, 'cause I want to use it.'"
Adams laughs and adds, "I think he's still got that message."
And I understand that. Some things you just save, because they're worth playing over again.
I think there are really only two kinds of pop music CDs these days. There are the ones you listen to only once or twice, maybe downloading the single good song to your iPod or computer; then there are others that grow stronger, sweeter, and more necessary each time you play them. Gold was that way; Cold Roses was that way; so was Jacksonville City Nights. I won't say Adams is the best North American singer-songwriter since Neil Young...but I won't say he isn't, either. What I know is there has never been a Ryan Adams record quite as strong and together as Easy Tiger; it's got enough blue-eyed, blue-steel soul (with the faintest country tinge) to make me think of both Marvin Gaye and the Righteous Brothers. Probably ridiculous, but true. And the songs themselves are beautiful-- the lyrics tightly focused and brief, the feeling one of melancholy calm that will probably be a revelation to fans that remember the old, sometimes angry Ryan Adams.
He agrees that the tone of Easy Tiger is different-- not dark, just different-- and suggests in passing that it may have something to do with both sobering up and growing up (he's 32). Then he goes on to talk about the process, which is clearly something close to his heart. "I write on a manual typewriter," he says. "I get up, I have a cup of coffee, I sit down at the typewriter. I never spent a useless day behind a typewriter."
I say amen to that, but he's already going on.
"It's like-- I don't know, sometimes it's like chasing a pretty girl on the beach. And things I never thought I could do...I can do."
I mention how prolific he is, aware that I might be touching a sore point. After all, there are plenty of critics who seem to think that's a bad thing. Adams, however, just laughs.
"Yeah, yeah, in America people give you shit for working hard," he says. "But...it's process, that's all. I process things. I went into the dream business. If people need 'em, I've got extra."
He talks enthusiastically about all the unreleased material he hopes to set free in a box set, maybe at the end of the year ("If people hear it all, then they'll get the connections," he says), but that's then. Now there's this, maybe the best Ryan Adams CD ever. And I know you want to listen to it right away. But slow down. Take your time. This album asks for that, and it will reward your full attention.
In other words-- easy, Tiger.
Copyright apetiteg 2007
La Set Liste :
1. The Sun Also Sets
2. Carolina Rain
3. I Taught Myself How To Grow Old
4. Dear John
5. Halooween Head
6. Goodnight Hollywood Boulevard
7. Two
8. Nightbirds
9. Wildflowers
10. Oh My God, Whatever...
11. Blue Hotel
12. Magnolia Mountain
13. How Do You Keep Love Alive?
14. Rip Off
15. New York, New York
16. Down In A Hole
17. I See Monsters (awesome)
18. Goodnight Rose
Pour d'autres photos ou info c'esty par RDV sur le Forum ICI
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Ryan Adams "box set" coming soon
Ryan adams is planning to release a box set after he releases his new album.
New LP 'Easy Tiger' is set to be released on June 25.
According to a spokesperson for his US label Lost Highway, the collective may include live tracks as well as unreleased albums '48 Hours', 'The Suicide Handbook', 'Bedhead' and songs from the 'Easy Tiger' sessions, reports Billboard.
A spokesperson for his US label Lost Highway said that the box set would not include tracks he released via Ryan-Adams.com under the monikers DJ Reggie, WereWolph, The Shit and others.
He said: "That wasn't meant to be anything more than just a laugh. It was a thing to do after shows. It was like having garage band wars. It was fund- a chance experiment with rap stuff."
Of 'Easy Tiger' Adams said: "It's a bunch of individual poems, really, and I have no reservations about trying to link anyting together. I still feel even unfamiliar with this record. Even though I wrote them, I still feel like I don't know enough about them yet."
Adams added that he was annoyed at critics who had a go at his work ethic (he released three albums between 2005 and 2006), explaining: "I ignore the people that say I'm at fault for being a hard worker. It's completely unreasonable."
Source : Ici
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Ryan Adams sortira pour le 26 juin 2007 un nouvel album : " Easy Tiger". Il contiendra
quelques chansons déja essayée sur les concerts de sa tournée . Voici une liste ( non définitive ) des titres
que contiendra " Easy Tiger " :
01 Goodnight Rose
02 Two (ft. Sheryl Crow)
03 Everybody Knows
04 Halloweenhead
05 Oh My God, Whatever, Etc.
06 Tears of Gold
07 The Sun Also Sets
08 Off Broadway
09 Pearls on a String
10 Rip Off
11 Two Hearts
12 Three Girls
13 I Taught Myself How to Grow Old
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Ryan Adams producteur de Willie Nelson - 9 janvier 2007
Le légendaire Willie Nelson est de retour avec un tout nouveau disque qui pourrait marquer le début d’une belle association entre lui et le talentueux Ryan Adams.
Songbird, sorti à la fin de la dernière année sous l’étiquette Lost Highway, se veut en effet une réalisation du jeune new-yorkais qui, malgré le nom, n’a aucun lien de parenté avec le chanteur canadien que l’on connaît bien, Bryan Adams. Entre les deux, sachez qu’il y a bien plus qu’une simple lettre qui les distingue !
Mais revenons à Songbird, album où Willie Nelson donne carte blanche à Ryan Adams et son groupe, The Cardinals. Cela donne un produit qui ressemble beaucoup à ce que fait le jeune chanteur depuis quelques années sur la scène country-pop américaine. Certes, il y a bien quelques chansons qui nous rappellent le son western préconisé jadis par monsieur Nelson (sur « Yours Love », entre autres, où l’on retrouve une “slide-guitare “ lancinante) ou encore son penchant pour le blues (sur la pièce d’ouverture de l’album, « Rainy Day Blues »), mais la majorité des chansons de ce CD jouissent d’une texture sonore plus fraîche, plus moderne.
Pour se faire, Ryan Adams et ses Cardinals ont simplement accompagné la voix éraillée du chanteur de quelques notes de piano, de guitares, d’orgue, d’airs d’harmonica et ajouté la présence d’un chœur vocal sur certaines pièces, notamment sur la reprise du classique de Leonard Cohen, « Hallelujah ».
On ne sait pas qui a décidé d’approcher qui en premier dans toute cette histoire. Est-ce le vieux Willie qui a voulu, par cette association, rafraîchir sa musique et donc, par le fait même, son public ? Est-ce le jeune Ryan Adams qui s’est dit qu’en réalisant l’album d’un grand de la chanson country américaine cela lui donnerait encore plus de prestige sur la scène musicale américaine ? Peu importe ; le produit final est très bien et on souhaite, pour les deux artistes, voir cette nouvelle amitié se poursuivre encore longtemps. Une tournée Willie Nelson-Ryan Adams, nous, on paierait pour voir ça !
Ryan Adams est devenu Fou! 11 albums en sortie - 1 decembre 2006
C'est sans doute ça l'avenir. Chaque artiste pourra sortir sa musique au rythme qu'il souhaite. Ryan Adams, qui poste et répond frénétiquement sur le forum de son site, a mis 11 albums en ligne sous trois pseudos différents.
Le rocker a enregistré huit disques cette année, plus les trois de l'an dernier. Il s'est fait un trip hip-hop sous le nom de DJ Reggie et un album de hardcore en utilisant l'alias The Shit and Werewolph. Tous seront bientôt en ligne sur www.ryan-adams.com.