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Ryan Adams, Heartbreaker

Audio CD

Disk ID: 1579866

Disk length: 1h 12m 20s (19 Tracks)

Original Release Date: 2000

Label: Unknown

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Tracks & Durations

1. (Argument) 0:37
2. To be Young 3:04
3. My winding Wheel 3:13
4. AMY 3:46
5. Oh My Sweet Carolina 4:57
6. Bartering Lines 3:59
7. Call Me On Your Way Back Home 3:09
8. Damn, Sam 2:08
9. Come Pick Me Up 5:18
10. To Be The One 3:01
11. Why Do You Leave 3:38
12. Shakedown on 9th Street 2:53
13. Don't Ask For The Water 2:56
14. In My Time Of Need 5:39
15. Sweet Lil Gal 3:39
16. Drunk And Fucked Up 4:14
17. Sweet Valentine 5:12
18. Hey There Misses Lovely 4:03
19. The Revelator 6:43

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Review

Heartbreaker opens with an argument about a Morrissey song before the band kicks into the sloppy and rollicking "To Be Young (Is to Be Sad, Is to Be High)," and certainly the gloomster's self-referential sadness hangs over Ryan Adams's songs. But Adams, the notoriously raucous frontman for the defunct Whiskeytown, is a country boy at heart if not in attitude, so there is a lingering pastoral beauty that imbues the album with a happy sweetness as well. That, along with Ryan's expressive, gravelly voice (equal parts Paul Westerberg and Merle Haggard), gives Heartbreaker enduring power. --Tod NelsonWith a touch of Robyn Hitchcock in his vocal timbre, a smidgen of Steve Earle in his narratives and instrumental writing, and a heap of Gram Parsons in the fullness of his overall sound and structure, Ryan Adams steps well above Whiskeytown with Heartbreaker, his solo debut. By turns raucous, wistful, raspy, and simply sweet, Adams makes the most of a top-shelf acoustic band, including Gillian Welch and David Rawlings and even a guest spot from Emmylou Harris on the tenderly yearning "Oh My Sweet Caroline." There's little dependence on the usual alt-country twang and a far more rounded sense of textures here (the multiple vocal tracks on "Amy," for example, sound Beatles-esque), with glockenspiel, organ, and more signaling a sonic field of extensive depth. His spare guitar and stretched-thin vocal delivery alternate smartly with a bigger-shouldered guitar and throaty voice, never leaving behind a band conception straight out of Parsons's oeuvre. Adams signals occupancy of the post-alt-country vanguard--if there is such a thing. --Andy Bartlett

Other Versions

Albums are mined from the various public resources and can be actually the same but different in the tracks length only. We are keeping all versions now.

Heartbreaker

Tracks: 20 (+1 tracks), Disk length: 1h 16m 46s (+4m 26s)

Heartbreaker

Tracks: 15 (-4 tracks), Disk length: 53m 1s (-20m 41s)

Heartbreaker

Tracks: 15 (-4 tracks), Disk length: 52m 33s (-20m 13s)

Heartbreaker

Tracks: 15 (-4 tracks), Disk length: 52m 5s (-21m 45s)

Heartbreaker

Tracks: 15 (-4 tracks), Disk length: 51m 56s (-21m 36s)

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