Ben and Laz, I couldn't agree with you more. I turned my 19 year old nephew onto Ryan Adams this past summer. I think his music is incredibly diverse and infinitely interesting. I truly believe Strangers Almanac (Whiskeytown) is one of the greatest recording of all time. When I first heard Turn Around from Strangers Almanac and that guitar sound I went nuts and bought every Whiskeytown cd that was out at the time. Tell me that Losering isn't one of the coolest songs ever. I now have all of those as well as all of Ryan's solo efforts. I believe the bad press or rap he gets is due to his "quality control" of songs on his releases. For me, in these times of carefully crafted and marketed "music", this is refreshing. It seems most, if not all, of my favorite artists have received bad press due to this same scenario. John Lennon, Paul Westerberg, Neil Young and Steve Forbert, among others, have been hit with this same criticism. (You gotta check out Westerberg's new cd also). Laz, give Rock and Roll more listening time, it's really pretty good in it's own way. Anyway, back to work.......
p.s. Ben, nice Tele in the background there.
p.s. Ben, nice Tele in the background there.