Ryan Adams 10 Songs From Live At Carnagie Hall (CD, Pax-Am, 2015) ***
Genre: Americana
Places I remember: The Warehouse (Hastings)
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Welcome To New York (1989); Oh My Sweet Carolina (10 Songs)
Gear costume: Bad Blood; How You Get The Girl (1989)
Active compensatory factors: The 1989 album is, of course, his take on Taylor Swift's original album. It's definitely different to Ta Ta's album. Shake It Off for instance is almost unrecognisable.
Gear costume: Bad Blood; How You Get The Girl (1989)
Active compensatory factors: The 1989 album is, of course, his take on Taylor Swift's original album. It's definitely different to Ta Ta's album. Shake It Off for instance is almost unrecognisable.
After the bravura first track, Welcome To New York, the real strength of the album comes in the middle with Bad Blood, Wildest Dreams, How You get The Girl forming an impressive trio.
The live 10 Songs are culled from the longer Live album. It cuts the between songs' patter and is a tight collection of Ryan solo on guitar and piano. It's a strong combination.
Strpped down versions work for him here. None of Ta Ta's songs are featured though.
Where do they all belong? That's it for Ryan in my collection. He's been accused of various things by the MeToo movement and has yet to surface again from that. Which all makes him a problematic listening experience but he's not Ian Watkins from Lostprophets right?
Where do they all belong? That's it for Ryan in my collection. He's been accused of various things by the MeToo movement and has yet to surface again from that. Which all makes him a problematic listening experience but he's not Ian Watkins from Lostprophets right?
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