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Ryan Adams Biography
Mixing the heartfelt angst of a singer/songwriter with the
cocky brashness of a garage rocker, Ryan Adams is at once one of the
few artists to emerge from the alt-country scene to achieve mainstream
commercial success and the one who most strongly refused to be defined
by the genre, leaping from one spot to another stylistically as he
follows his increasingly prolific muse.
Adams was born in Jacksonville, NC, in 1974. While country music was a
major part of his family's musical diet when he was young (he's cited
Loretta Lynn, George Jones, Merle Haggard, and Johnny Cash as
particular favorites), in his early teens Adams developed a taste for
punk rock and he began playing electric guitar. At 15, Adams started
writing songs, and a year later he formed a band called the Patty Duke
Syndrome; Adams once described PDS as an arty noise punk band, with
Hüsker Dü frequently cited as a key influence and reference point. The
Patty Duke Syndrome developed a following in Jacksonville, and when
Adams was 19 the band relocated to the larger town of Raleigh, NC, in
hopes of expanding its following. However, Adams became eager to do
something more melodic that would give him a platform for his country
and pop influences. In 1994, Adams left the Patty Duke Syndrome and
formed Whiskeytown with guitarist Phil Wandscher and violinist Caitlin
Cary. With bassist Steve Grothman and drummer Eric Skillet Gilmore
completing the lineup, Whiskeytown (the name came from regional slang
for getting drunk) released their first album, Faithless Street, on the
local Mood Food label.
The album won reams of critical praise in the music press, and more
than one writer suggested that Whiskeytown could do for the alt-country
or No Depression scene what Nirvana had done for grunge. But by the
time the band signed to a major label -- the Geffen-distributed imprint
Outpost Records -- the band had undergone the first in a series of
major personal shakeups; and in the summer of 1997, when Whiskeytown's
Outpost debut, Stranger's Almanac, was ready for release, Adams and
Wandscher were the only official members of the band left. Cary soon
returned, but Wandscher left shortly afterward, and Whiskeytown had a
revolving-door lineup for much of the next two years, with the band's
live shows become increasingly erratic, as solid performances were
often followed by noisy, audience-baiting disasters. Consequently, as
strong as Stranger's Almanac was, Whiskeytown never fulfilled the
commercial expectations created for them by others. In 1999, the band
-- which was down to Adams, Cary, and a handful of session musicians --
recorded its third and final album, Pneumonia, but when Geffen was
absorbed in a merger between PolyGram and Universal, Outpost was phased
out, and the album was shelved; shortly afterward, Whiskeytown quietly
called it quits.
Following Whiskeytown's collapse, Adams wasted no time launching a
career apart from the band, and after a few solo acoustic tours, Adams
went into a Nashville studio with songwriters Gillian Welch and David
Rawlings and cut his first album under his own name, Heartbreaker,
which was released by pioneering insurgent country label Bloodshot
Records in 2000. The album received critical raves, respectable sales,
and a high-profile endorsement from Elton John, and Adams was signed by
Universal's new Americana imprint, Lost Highway Records. Lost Highway
gave Whiskeytown's Pneumonia a belated release in early 2001, and later
that same year, they released his second solo set, Gold, which
displayed less of a country influence in favor of classic pop and rock
styles of the 1970s. In the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks,
the album's opening track, New York, New York, was embraced by radio
as an anthem of resilience (though it actually concerned a busted
romance), and Adams once again found himself touted as the next big
thing.
Always a prolific songwriter, in a bit more than a year following
Gold's release, Adams had written and recorded enough material for four
albums. Adams opted to whittle the 60 tunes down to a 13-song
collection called Demolition, which was released in 2002 as he went
into the studio to record his official follow-up to Gold. A year later,
Adams' concept album Rock N Roll was released alongside the double-EP
collection Love Is Hell. Tours around the globe kept Adams busy into
the next year as he maintained momentum writing songs and keeping his
ever-changing presence in the music press. In May 2005, Adams released
his first of three albums for Lost Highway, the melancholic double-disc
Cold Roses. Jacksonville City Nights, a more classic-sounding honky
tonk effort, followed in September, and 29 appeared in late December.
Always prolific, in the interim period before his next album was
released, Adams posted a large selection of tracks -- including hip-hop
ones -- on his website, but fans were greeted with more straightforward
material on 2007's Easy Tiger. ~ Mark Deming, All Music Guide
Written by Mark Deming