Ryan Adams and The Cardinals Cold Roses (CD, Lost Highway, 2005) ***
Genre: Americana, Alt country, country rock
Places I remember: The Warehouse, Hastings, NZ
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Easy Plateau
Gear costume: Dance All Night, Friends
Active compensatory factors: An unusual one this - a double CD, even though all of the tracks could have fitted on a single CD. Hmmm.
With 18 tracks, it's inevitable that it takes a while to get into the record and that some songs get lost in the sheer number of songs on offer. Still - the quality remains consistently good throughout.
Unfortunately sexual misconduct charges in 2019 have kinda coloured Ryan and his music a tad (although I'm not up to date with events as far as that goes but where's there's smoke and so on).
Never-the-less, this is quality country rock material without being outstanding country rock material.
Where do they all belong? Cold Roses is a kinda interesting album within the Adams canon. First with his band The Cardinals and the first of three in 2005. Hard to keep up!
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