Matt writes some background on the song: “this song was tracked all at once, live… and this was the 3rd or 4th pass through. i vividly remember looking out into the tracking room while i was singing this, and seeing everyone completely in it. hunched over their instruments, eyes closed…entrenched in the words and the motion of the song. riding it like a wave. just absolutely KILLING it!… i hadn’t really experienced that kind of connection, that kind of communication, in the studio before… 6 people working like one. and the yearning and the desperation of the lyric totally came through them. through us…”
The deeply good new album Some Mad Hope will be out August 14th on Vanguard Records.
Ûž Finally, just one album a year for Ryan Adams is never enough (even though that’s A-OK with me). Lost Highway announced yesterday that there is a chance they will put out a Ryan Adams box set, with unreleased materials from the 48 Hours and Suicide Handbook “albums,” live songs from the Bedheads, and cuts from the Easy Tiger sessions.
If you preorder the (very strong) Easy Tiger album now, you get a bonus CD containing a live version of the song “These Girls,” which I got to hear on the album the other day. The most exciting news for me is that the song These Girls is actually a re-working of forgotten cast-off tune “Hey There Mrs. Lovely” from the ’99/2000 era, a song that I have long adored. The lyrics are different, and I am not sure if I like them as much as the original, but it is still a great-sounding song. The first 100 preorders also get a signed 7″:
Artist : Ryan Adams Album : Keep Me In Your Thoughts (A Retrospective) Label : Lost Highway
Rls date : 2007-05-19
[Track List] 1. Two 2:38 2. Blue Sky Blues 5:18 3. Nuclear 3:24 4. Halloween Head 3:23 5. So Alive 3:58 6. Wonderwall 4:09 7. Let It Ride 3:23 8. Two 2:38 9. The Hardest Part 2:52 10.New York, New York 3:46 11.Halloween Head 3:22
Hey There Mrs Lovely is fantastic. I was lucky enough to hear it last year when he brought back some of the older songs on the solo tour. Have you seen the live video of Thes Girls? The link is:
As for ‘Keep Me in Your Thoughts’; I think that’s just a promo disc made to highlight his career so far, and is sent to radio stations or something. I’ve seen several of them for other artists recently.
Name: Heather Browne Location: Colorado, originally by way of California Giving context to the torrent since 2005.
"I love the relationship that anyone has with music: because there's something in us that is beyond the reach of words, something that eludes and defies our best attempts to spit it out. It's the best part of us, probably, the richest and strangest part..."
—Nick Hornby, Songbook
"Music has always been a matter of energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel." —Hunter S. Thompson
Mp3s are for sampling purposes, kinda like when they give you the cheese cube at Costco, knowing that you'll often go home with having bought the whole 7 lb. spiced Brie log. They are left up for a limited time. If you LIKE the music, go and support these artists, buy their schwag, go to their concerts, purchase their CDs/records and tell all your friends. Rock on.
I probably have all those ‘unreleased’ songs already, but a boxed set would be pretty cool! Thank you for the info.
-Erik
wakeboarder69 — June 6, 2007 @ 1:44 pm
Arrrrrgh! Captain ‘salty’ Tim says ‘thanks for being on this week’s podcast … argggggggh!’
Tim Young — June 7, 2007 @ 3:36 am
Hi Heather,
I’ve just found this on the usenet :
Artist : Ryan Adams
Album : Keep Me In Your Thoughts (A Retrospective)
Label : Lost Highway
Rls date : 2007-05-19
[Track List]
1. Two 2:38
2. Blue Sky Blues 5:18
3. Nuclear 3:24
4. Halloween Head 3:23
5. So Alive 3:58
6. Wonderwall 4:09
7. Let It Ride 3:23
8. Two 2:38
9. The Hardest Part 2:52
10.New York, New York 3:46
11.Halloween Head 3:22
Do you know more about it?
cheers
Roberto
Steam Master — June 12, 2007 @ 5:51 am
Hey There Mrs Lovely is fantastic. I was lucky enough to hear it last year when he brought back some of the older songs on the solo tour. Have you seen the live video of Thes Girls? The link is:
http://www.stereogum.com/archives/vi…ese-girls.html
(sorry if that makes the page funny!)
As for ‘Keep Me in Your Thoughts’; I think that’s just a promo disc made to highlight his career so far, and is sent to radio stations or something. I’ve seen several of them for other artists recently.
Brendan — June 12, 2007 @ 6:04 am