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Music CD - Ryan Adams & the Cardinals: Cold Roses
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Music CD: Cold Roses
Artist: Ryan Adams & the Cardinals
List Price: $13.98
Our Price: $11.24
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Manufacturer: Lost Highway
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Tracks:
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1. Magnolia Mountain
2. Sweet Illusions
3. Meadowlake Street
4. When Will You Come Back Home?
5. Beautiful Sorta
6. Now That You're Gone
7. Cherry Lane
8. Mockingbirdsing
9. How Do You Keep Love Alive
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0602498805022
Label: Lost Highway
Manufacturer: Lost Highway
Number Of Discs: 2
Publication Date: 2005
Publisher: Lost Highway
Release Date: 2005-05-03
Studio: Lost Highway
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Summary: Masterpiece
Comment: This is Ryan's best album. I agree that in time this will be looked at as his masterpiece. There isn't one bad song on here. The only thing that keeps it from being perfect is the tempo of Beautiful Sorta doesn't really fit the rest of the album. Life is Beautiful is Adam's best song ever recorded.
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Summary: Steller Album
Comment: Best Ryan Adams album hands down. This will be the one he will be remembered by when he is long dead. Timeless stuff folks.
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Summary: "Strangers Almanac" fans rejoice
Comment: A really beautiful album. There's not much more to say, except that Adams delivers in a manner that I haven't heard since Whiskeytown's second LP a decade ago.
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Summary: Grateful Adams
Comment: Some of the best music in rock was made in a folksy revival in the late 60's and early 70's, as artists were simultaneously celebrating the free love era and coming to terms with its limits and dark underbelly. This time of tension and introspection produced albums like Music From Big Pink, Astral Weeks, the White Album, John Wesley Harding, Sweet Baby James, and American Beauty.
What's remarkable about Cold Roses is that Ryan Adams has not just listened to this music, he has inhaled it in spirit and substance (and inhaling is a pretty appropriate image for this album!). Yes, the songs are to some extent unoriginal, in the sense that they feature the kind of mimicry that Adams sings about in "Mockingbird." But the music he's imitating is wonderful, and he's excellent at capturing not just its free-form, jamnming sound, but also its haunting ambiguities.
Those who want straight country should skip this one, and maybe get Jacksonville City Nights instead. To enjoy and fully appreciate this album, you probably have to be a fan of the late 60's music that blended country, folk, and psychedelia. There's a reason Phil Lesh loves Ryan Adams: this is probably the best Grateful Dead studio album in decades--or it would be if only the Dead had recorded it.
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Summary: Great laid-back soft sound
Comment: The music on this CD is haunting and refreshing. Ryan and the Cardinals put together a nice ensemble of songs.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Sent reeling by the one-two punch Conor Oberst's Bright Eyes delivered with I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning and Digital Ash In A Digital Urn, Ryan Adams vowed to strike back in 2005 with three of his own releases. The first--a double album, no less--sees the attention-seeking former Whiskeytown singer casting off both the raucous guitars of 2003's Rock N Roll and the rainy-day ballads of the same year's Love Is Hell in favor of the more introspective moments and rustic textures of 2000's Heartbreaker. He's snuck in at least one epic with "Meadowlake Street" and one potential radio hit with the twangy "Let It Ride," while the rest of the set is mostly packed with bleary-eyed laments that feel all too mannered after spending the last few years revealing his naked pop ambition in full. No doubt Adams will make up for it with the next one. --Aidin Vaziri Recommended Ryan Adams Discography 
Heartbreaker | 
Gold | 
Love Is Hell | 
Whiskeytown, Pneumonia | 
Whiskeytown, Stranger's Almanac | 
Whiskeytown, Faithless Street |
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