No More Pills for Adams?
A clean Ryan Adams delivers an EP that seems at peace.
Ryan Adams and The Cardinals
Follow The Lights
Released on Nov 30, -0001
When Ryan Adams released Easy Tiger in July of this year, he was rather forthcoming about the last few years of his life. "I snorted heroin a lot - with coke. I did speedballs every day for years. I was running the risk of becoming one of those people who talks to himself all the time. I was seeing ghosts and hearing stuff. Having horrible nightmares."
The now clean and sober Adams' last album, Easy Tiger, gave us the most focused collection of songs to date, showcasing the singer/song-writer's ability to filter out the filler. Closing out the old chapter of his life and starting fresh, the once chemically tormented Adams now offers up a companion to Easy Tiger with the rather pleasing E.P. Follow The Lights.
The E.P. consists of two new songs (“Follow The Lights? and “My Love For You Is Real?), various live studio recordings and an engaging cover of Alice In Chains "Down In A Hole." His voice on this track is as strong as ever, perhaps a form of catharsis considering the song's subject and author.
When one listens to the "re-born" Ryan Adams, he would have us believe he's keeping the demons at bay and the neurosis in check. Seeing him live these days one may think differently; he's still up to his old tricks on stage - tantrum after tantrum, but on tape he seems at peace.
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Posted by Joe Roth on Oct 30, 2007 @ 12:00 am