Ryan Adams
Rock N Roll
Released 2003 on Lost Highway Records
Musicians:
Ryan Adams -
"almost all instruments, complaints and wool knitting"
Johnny T -
"drums and all complaints"
Brief Ryan Adams Bio:
Ryan Adams originally came from Whiskeytown, an alt-country style band from which he was the singer. Ryan's solo career began with
Heartbreaker, then later 2001's
Gold. These album showed alot of Ryan's country roots. Ryan then began amassing alot of unreleased demos and such. These would eventually become
Demolition, released in 2002. In 2003, Ryan would record and release
Rock N Roll. The following year, Ryan would finally release the full version of [url=http://www.musicianforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=235154]Love is Hell[/url]. But anyways, back to
Rock N Roll.
This album, overall, sounds exactly like it's name, energized and bluesy. Alot of the songs have that 70's or 80's raw rock vibe to them. You could say it's the opposite of
Love is Hell in that alot of the beautiful and sad vibe is replaced by energy and raw emotion.
Track by track:
This is it - In response to the Strokes album
Is this it?, "this is it" kicks off the album with some funky chord stabs and drums. Then it bursts into a anthemic chorus with some nice soaring vocals that Ryan Adams does so well. A nice one or two note melody/solo rounds out this typical verse/chorus style rock song.
4/5
Shallow - A cool bluesy rock riff kicks off this song, every 4 bars or so it bursts into a big sounding chord part, very cool sounding. Nice typical rock chorus again. About halfway through the song cuts out and drops down to the cool bluesy riff again. Ends with another melodic solo that uses only a handful of notes.
4.5/5
1974 - This song is great.
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