Gold

Adams, Ryan

Adams, Ryan / Gold
Genre: music4me > Rock > Rock
Format: CD Album
Released: Tue 25 Sep 2001
Catalogue Number: LHWY170256.2

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Description:
Personnel includes: Ryan Adams (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, banjo, piano); Ethan Johns (acoustic, electric & 12-string guitars, mandolin, celeste, electric piano, harmonium, Hammond B-3 organ, strings, vibraphone, drums, percussion); Chris Stills (acoustic & electric guitars, bass, background vocals); Bucky Baxter (steel guitar); Rami Jaffi (accordion); Kamasi Washington (saxophone); Andre Carter (trumpet); Benmont Tench (piano, Hammond B-3 organ); Richard Causon (piano, strings); Jennifer Condos, Milo De Cruz (bass); Rob McDonald, C.C. White, Juliana Raye, Adam Duritz (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 PNEUMONIA 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.

Track Listing:

1.  New York, New York
2.  Firecracker
3.  Answering Bell
4.  La Cienega Just Smiled
5.  Rescue Blues, The
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 & Lose
15.  Tina Toledo's Street Walkin' Blues
16.  Goodnight, Hollywood BLVD.

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