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Gold (Import) (CD)

By: Ryan Adams

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Track Listing

DISC 1 for Gold (Import) (CD) Album By Ryan Adams
1   New York New York  
2   Firecracker  
3   Answering Bell  
4   La Cienega Just Smiled  
5   Rescue Blues  
6   Somehow Someday  
7   When The Stars Go Blue  
8   Nobody Girl  
9   Sylvia Plath  
10   Enemy Fire  
11   Gonna Make You Love Me  
12   Wild Flowers  
13   Harder Now That It's Over  
14   Touch Feel And Lose  
15   Tina Toleda's Streetwalkin' Blues  
16   Goodnight Hollywood Boulevard  
 

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Review

Q (10/01, p.117) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Adam's freewheeling nature remains irresistible. He's a magpie, flitting between people, places and influences with equal enthusiasm..."
Entertainment Weekly (9/28/01, pp.71-2) - "...This sprawling tour through American music...is like a dinner full of comfort food..." - Rating: B+
Mojo (10/01, p.114) - "...A beautiful trip..."
No Depression (9-10/01, pp.129-30) - "...These songs are filled with hot emotion....There are more hooks here than at a pirate's convention, and Adams' gift for melody is so strong it's almost scary..."
CMJ (9/17/01, p.4) - "...Sparkles with its creator's shaky roots on the West Coast...with a slow, syrupy pace..."

Product note

Initial pressings of GOLD will include a limited edition bonus disc featuring five songs.
Personnel includes: Ryan Adams (vocals, acoustic guitar, banjo, piano); Ethan Johns (acoustic & electric guitars, Chamberlain strings, Hammond B-3 organ, vibraphone, drums, congas); Bucky Baxter (steel guitar); Richard Causon (strings, piano); Kamasi Washington (saxophone); Benchmont Tench (piano, Hammond B-3 organ); Chris Stills (bass, background vocals); Jennifer Condos (bass); Adam Duritz, Julianna Raye, C.C. White, Rob McDonald, Keith Hunter (background vocals).
Recorded at the Sunset Sound Factory, Hollywood, California.
GOLD was nominated for the 2002 Grammy Award for Best Rock Album. "New York, New York" was nominated for the 2002 Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance.
The "it" boy of early-'00s roots-rock, former Whiskeytown leader Ryan Adams has responded to the mountain of hype surrounding him with an arrogance worthy of his idol, mid-'60s Bob Dylan. Accordingly he follows his stripped-down solo debut with a two-disc, fully produced set that finds him grasping for the mantle of alt-country messiah. GOLD picks up where Whiskeytown's swan song FAITHLESS STREET left off; a step removed from the country-rock hard line but still full of rootsy, organic, Band-like warmth.
The up-tempo opening tune "New York, New York" recalls vintage Steve Forbert, while "Answering Bell" sounds like David Gray fronting the aforementioned Band on a rewritten "The Weight." The epic, acoustic guitar-based ballad "Nobody's Girl" is one of the more overtly Dylanesque pieces here, and while trying to overshadow Zimmy is a fool's errand no matter how big your britches, one has to admire Adams for the considerable chutzpah necessary to even take up the task. Whether you believe he's the Gram Parsons of the 21st century or not, its that undeniable spirit and ambition that lay at the heart of GOLD's appeal.

Album Description

Second solo album from ex-Whiskeytown frontman, recorded with Ethan Johns, son of legendary producer Glyn. More upbeat and relaxed than 2000's 'Heartbreaker'. While still retaining Adams's alt.country leanings, this sprawling, epic record echoes 70s American rock, Neil Young and the Rolling Stones.

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