Tuesday, May 07, 2013

Ryan Adams - Gold & Easy Tiger

From 2001 and 2007 respectively, and wikipedia tells me that Adams released no fewer than six lps between them...which is maybe telling, because my strongest impression across Gold and Easy Tiger is that Adams really needs an editor - ie some kind of quality control. There's some good stuff on Gold in particular, but it's far too long, and tends to descend into a sort of generically country-rock-influenced pleasantness, whereas very possibly it might have been a really solid record if it had been a fair bit tighter. Adams certainly isn't bad, but on the strength of the parts of his solo output that I've come to so far, nor is there anything to him to get really excited about.

(in a similar vein, Ashes & Fire)