Ryan Adams Band • Page 17

Tuned in to WXPN on my phone now......

 

Premiering right now!

 

Here we go! lol he just said it was called "Bad Colors" tho

 

The song is Doylestown Girl.

I dug it, could’ve fit in the prisoner group of songs nicely imo.

Of course they played the smiths afterwards

 

Not a huge departure from Prisoner. Some cool extra layers going on towards the end of the song. Song was Doylestown Girl.

 

I can't say it was what I was expecting - the Big Colors artwork had me thinking this was going to be some kind of departure for him - but damn that was a gorgeous song. I loved it. I was listening on my phone but there were definitely some cool layers with the instrumentation. I can't wait to hear the rest of this. I am loving the fact that these two albums both have very long tracklists.

 

What are the chances of this ending up on YouTube? Did they play the full song?

 

Hoping it’ll go up on Apple Music, Spotify etc on Friday. Pretty sure it was the full song they played. Certainly didn’t sound cut off.

 

doylestown - Clyp

 

I can't believe how prolific this guy is.

 

I can't either, and in my opinion at least the quality is almost always there. I love a huge percentage of his output even when you throw in all of the b-sides, bonus tracks, singles, never released stuff, etc.

 

He rarely misses for me either, Brother Beck. One of my favorite songwriters.

 

This is a beautiful song. Love when the strings come in.

 

New track “Manchester” playing on this radio station sometime in the next 30 minutes. XS play the WORLD exclusive of Ryan Adams - Manchester - XS Manchester

 

Why isn’t the single steaming today?

 

No idea. He’s given exclusives of these two songs to radio stations in the local area though. Those are the only location references, so maybe they’ll go up next Friday with both songs available.

 

Dropbox - XS Manchester Ryan Adams.mp3

 

Here it is.

Ryan Adams shares first song off Big Colors, “Doylestown Girl”: Stream

 

i was not feeling "doylestown girl" at all, but damn "manchester" is gorgeous.

 

I really love them both. I feel like I am on the same wavelength as him right now with the kind of music he's making and the kind of music I love to hear from him. He's just so damn good at what he does. I even love the fact that both of the tracklists that we have seen so far are very long. Curiously though, these two songs sound like what I was imagining the album Wednesdays was going to sound like looking at the album art and hearing some of the people who played on it with him, but aren't what I was expecting Big Colors to sound like. Not that this is a bad thing, mind, I'm just saying.

 

I like most everything the man does (aside from the weird Orion type shit), but I do miss some of the older sounds - Gold, Cold Roses/Jacksonville City Nights, and The Cardinals era

I think he sounds best with a big wicked band (like the Cardinals) behind him. He needs his version of the Heartbreakers, a big ass great/tight band, to sound his best. The sparse stuff is good..........the full rock band stuff is better.

Just my opinion.

 

The Cardinals were great. For a while there I thought they were going to be his Crazy Horse (or Heartbreakers, if you prefer). But it seems like the door is closed on that.

 

100% agree with you. I've been a fan of his for many years. I love him stripped down solo acoustic, and I love the Cold Roses/JCN sound the Cardinals brought to the table. I don't really love the albums he does where he plays everything himself. The songs are usually good, but the production doesn't do much for me.

 

I haven't seen him in a few years, but his most recent band I saw him with was just so boooooring compared to the Cardinals. I want to say that was the band before the current one though. Hard to keep up. I believe it was on the tour for the self-titled album.