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Ryan Adams is one of the most prolific artists of the current musical era.
A singer-songwriter with a strong personality (he got so angry at his record label's lack of appreciation for his album "Love Is Hell" that he locked himself in the studio for two weeks and came out with a semi-masterpiece like "Rock ‘n Roll" to satisfy his producers' commercial ambitions), he is also noted for a disarming ease of writing that allowed him to release three albums in a single year (2005, the year of "Cold Roses," "Jacksonville City Nights," and "29"), but this does not come at the expense of the quality of individual tracks, which are, at worst, at least enjoyable.
Few missteps in this "Easy Tiger," the new effort by the American singer-songwriter.
To be honest, the album doesn't revolutionize Adams' offering, indeed remaining in the wake of the usual alternative country, this time perhaps more infused with a pleasant pop-rock vein that is more prominently featured in the beautiful lead single "Halloweenhead," released in 7'' format paired with the other track "Two" (which boasts the presence of a rejuvenated Sheryl Crow on backing vocals).
Beautiful too is the opening entrusted to the evocative "Goodnight Rose," as are the aforementioned highly present country diversions, as per Adams' tradition, throughout the album (in this sense, beautiful are "Oh My God, Whatever, Etc.", "Pearls On A String" and the subsequent "Tears Of Gold", even more traditionalist if possible). Notable also is the Beatles-oriented pop of "Everybody Knows" and "Off Broadway", the latter truth be told perhaps a bit forced. "Rip Off," on the other hand, has the task of highlighting the clear pop talent of the American artist, reiterated in the decent "Two Hearts". Slow and sad from the title onward is the closing given to "I Taught Myself How To Grow Old," where a melancholic harmonica makes an appearance.
"Easy Tiger" therefore does nothing but remind us of the overflowing compositional talent of Ryan Adams, in the wake of masters like Neil Young who are currently unreachable, but tomorrow, who knows...
It certainly isn't one of his masterpieces, but this "Easy Tiger" remains a good effort and proof of a clearly innate talent and class.
Tracklist and Lyrics
02 Two (02:34)
If you take me back
Back to your place
I'll try not to bother you I promise
'Cause it's cold in here
And I wish it was hot
The sink's broke, it's leaking from the faucet
And I'm fractured from the fall
And I wanna go home
But it takes two when it used to take one
It takes two when it used to take only one
Well, my money's no good
When I'm up to no good
No good ever comes from it, honest
I got a really good heart
I just can't catch a break
If I could I'd treat you like you wanted me to I promise
But I'm fractured from the fall
And I wanna go home
I'm fractured from the fall
And I wanna go home
But it takes two when it used to take one
It takes two when it used to take one
It takes two when it used to take one
It takes two when it used to take only one
03 Everybody Knows (02:22)
You come for me in the worst of places
You come for me, you come and try to take me home
I'm always in need and it's hard to be reciprocating
The fabric of our life gets torn
And everything's changing so how i am to know
How i'm going to hold on to you when i'm spinning out of control
You an i together
But only one of us in love
And everybody knows
He says her name, it echoes in my head like it was a canyon
He says her name, he says it and i know what's up
You come to me sometimes when i'm thinking like a cannonball shooting out a cannon
And i forget whatever it was i was thinking about
With everything changing how am i to know
How i'm going to hold on to you when i'm spinning out of control
You and I together
But only one of us in love
And everybody knows
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By sylvian1982
With this album, Ryan Adams has chosen to be loved.
He delivers a work that is indeed derivative, but exceedingly fresh and graceful in its soft melodic lines.
