From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V7 #448 Reply-To: loud-fans@smoe.org Sender: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk loud-fans-digest Wednesday, July 16 2008 Volume 07 : Number 448 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] Tags [Gil Ray ] Re: [loud-fans] And I have a follow-up... ["Tom Marcinko" Subject: [loud-fans] Tags Thank you both, very much...I think I now understand that I really don't need 'em. Gil ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:08:45 -0700 From: "Tom Marcinko" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] And I have a follow-up... Meant to say I loved that SxSW anecdote. Thanks to all for the Ryan Adams recommendations. I also meant to provide a link to download The Loft Sessions by RA, but I can't seem to find one that works. I'd be happy to burn a CD (remember those?) for anybody who wants one, though. T On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 8:10 AM, wrote: > >The question about Gram Parsons raises, for me, the question: What can > you > >recommend by the prolific Ryan Adams? > > It took me a long time to come around to Adams -- my wife's a big fan, so I > was finally able to dig through everything and figure it all out! His debut > solo album, Heartbreaker, is fantastic -- easily his best. His most recent > album, Easy Tiger, is the second best. Cold Roses is a surprisingly good > double album that features him and the Cardinals at their Dead-iest! > > >I found a great concert with the Cardinals on XM, entitled "The Loft > >Sessions," which I downloaded from (I think) Aquarium Drunkard. They > sound > >like the Dead would sound if I liked the Dead a whole lot more than I > >actually do. > > The Cardinals have turned into a pretty great band -- Adams' stuff leans > towards all sounding the same when he's working in the weepy country mode, > but the Cardinals manage to elevate the lesser material. > > I saw Adams play at SXSW years ago (before Heartbreaker, I think) -- he was > taking part in a "songwriters circle" with Jim Lauderdale and a couple other > guys. The room was tiny and dangerously packed with screaming Adams fans. > After the performance the artists had to fight their way from the stage to > the bar, and Adams accidentally bumped into me on his way. He said, "oops, > sorry" and a nearly hysterical girl right behind me grabbed my arm and said, > "oh my god -- you KNOW him?!" > > B ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V7 #448 *******************************