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29 October, 2008

Ryan Adams. Cardinology (2008)

Cardinology is the tenth studio album by Ryan Adams, and his fourth album with The Cardinals, released on October 28, 2008. The album, which completes Adams' contract with Lost Highway, was mostly recorded live.

A vinyl version includes a bonus 7", a comic book and a digital download code. The album's first single, "Fix It", was released on vinyl and online on September 23, 2008.

Many of the early demos for Cardinology were uploaded onto Adams' YouTube account "Horion74" in late 2007 and early 2008.

Track Listing

All songs written and composed by David Ryan Adams.

1.	"Born Into a Light"	2:16
2.	"Go Easy"	2:56
3.	"Fix It"	3:00
4.	"Magick"	2:17
5.	"Cobwebs"	3:57
6.	"Let Us Down Easy"	4:21
7.	"Crossed Out Name"	2:44
8.	"Natural Ghost"	3:39
9.	"Sink Ships"	3:38
10.	"Evergreen"	3:36
11.	"Like Yesterday"	2:32
12.	"Stop"	5:34
13.	"The Color of Pain (Bonus Track)"	3:05
14.	"Memory Lane (Bonus Track)"	3:02

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31 July, 2008

Ryan Adams. Gold (2001)

Gold, released in 2001, is a record by Ryan Adams in the alternative country genre. It is the follow-up to Heartbreaker. The album went on to sell 364,000 copies in the U.S. and 812,000 worldwide, Adams' best-selling album to date.

The album includes "When the Stars Go Blue", a song which has gone on to be covered by artists like The Corrs, Tyler Hilton, and Tim McGraw. "New York, New York" was also included on the album and became a notable MTV favorite following the September 11th, 2001 attacks on America. "The Rescue Blues" was featured in the end credits of the 2001 film Behind Enemy Lines.

Adams' friend and former roommate Adam Duritz (lead singer of Counting Crows) lends background vocals to a few tracks.

Stephen King's 2006 book Lisey's Story includes part of the lyrics to "When the Stars Go Blue" in the beginning.

Track Listing

Songs written by Ryan Adams unless otherwise stated.

"New York, New York" – 3:46
"Firecracker" – 2:51
"Answering Bell" – 3:05
"La Cienega Just Smiled" – 5:03
"The Rescue Blues" – 3:38
"Somehow, Someday" – 4:24
"When the Stars Go Blue" – 3:31
"Nobody Girl" (Adams & Ethan Johns) – 9:40
"Sylvia Plath" (Adams & Richard Causon) – 4:10
"Enemy Fire" (Adams & Gillian Welch) – 4:09
"Gonna Make You Love Me" – 2:36
"Wild Flowers" – 4:59
"Harder Now That It's Over" (Adams & Chris Stills) – 4:32
"Touch, Feel and Lose" (Adams & David Rawlings) – 4:15
"Tina Toledo's Street Walking Blues" (Adams & Ethan Johns) – 6:10
"Goodnight, Hollywood Blvd." (Adams & Richard Causon) – 3:25

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Ryan Adams. Easy Tiger (2007)

Easy Tiger is Ryan Adams' 9th studio album since leaving the alt-country band Whiskeytown. The album, which was recorded at Electric Lady Studios in Greenwich Village, was released on June 25, 2007 (June 26 in the U.S.), and was Adams' first release since his 2005 album 29, the third of three albums released in that year. The album features The Cardinals as the backing band and backing vocals from Sheryl Crow on "Two." The song "Halloweenhead" was #45 on Rolling Stone's list of the 100 Best Songs of 2007.

Many of these songs were performed on Adams' recent tour of the United States and Europe. "Off Broadway" first appeared on the bootleg The Suicide Handbook, a compilation of unreleased demo recordings, and was performed at least as early as 2001. "These Girls" previously appeared as "Hey There, Mrs. Lovely" on Adams' unreleased 2000 album Destroyer; the lyrics have been partly rewritten over time, but the original melody is intact.

The album debuted at #7 on the Billboard 200 with Adams highest first-week sales (61,000). As of December 2007, the album has sold over 200,000 copies in the U.S. Furthermore, the album debuted in Ireland, Canada, Belgium, Estonia and Switzerland where Ryan Adams has never had an album chart before. In total, the United World Chart estimated Easy Tiger's two week sales at 134,000 (91,000-43,000).