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Heartbreaker |  | Artist: Ryan Adams
Label: Bloodshot
Category: Music
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Rating:  26 reviews
Sales Rank: 23507
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 20071
UPC: 074430200712
EAN: 0074430200712
ASIN: B00004XSKU
Release Date: November 3, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Argument With David Rawlings Concerning Morrissey | | • | To Be Young (Is to Be Sad Is to Be High) | | • | My Winding Wheel | | • | Amy | | • | Oh My Sweet Carolina | | • | Bartering Lines | | • | Call Me on Your Way Back Home | | • | Damn Sam (I Love a Woman That Rains) | | • | Come Pick Me Up | | • | To Be the One | | • | Why Do They Leave | | • | Shakedown on 9th Street | | • | Don't Ask For the Water | | • | In My Time of Need | | • | Sweet Lil Gal (23rd/1st) |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
With a touch of Robyn Hitchcock in his vocal timbre, a smidgen of Steve Earle in his narratives and instrumental writing and a heap of Gram Parsons in the fullness of his overall sound and structure, Ryan Adams steps well above Whiskeytown with IHeartbreaker/I, his solo debut. By turns raucous, wistful, raspy and simply sweet, Adams makes the most of a top-shelf acoustic band, including Gillian Welch and David Rawlings and even a guest spot from Emmylou Harris on the tenderly yearning "Oh My Sweet Caroline". There is little dependence on the usual alt-country twang and a far more rounded sense of textures here (the multiple vocal tracks on "Amy", for example, sound Beatles-esque), with glockenspiel, organ and more signalling a sonic field of extensive depth. His spare guitar and stretched-thin vocal delivery alternate smartly with a bigger-shouldered guitar and throaty voice, never leaving behind a band conception straight out of Parsons's oeuvre. Adams signals occupancy of the post-alt country vanguard--if there is such a thing. --IAndy Bartlett/I
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 Does what it says on the tin... February 4, 2002
20 out of 20 found this review helpful
When Whiskeytown split, I wasnt sure whether Caitlin Cary or Ryan Adams would produce the better solo album, if either of them chose to go solo, that is, but this album deserves to go down as a classic.brHeartbreaker is a gorgeous collection of emotive, downbeat alt. country, bar two tracks (Shakedown on 9th Street and To Be Young...) which are perfect for those, 'alone in the car and no-one can see me' moments. brThe music is very simple, and the production rough, but the lyrics and Adams' voice are perfect. The emotions here are familiar with anyone who has loved and lost, songs such as Come Pick Me Up and Why Do They Leave? are quite simply, perfect.brMy favourite tracks personally are Come Pick Me Up and AMY, both of which are downbeat, slow folky-country, and excellent.brIf you are buying this album after Gold, however, it's worth taking note that this is much more downbeat, and a little more country...with less istrumentation. A lot of the songs are just vocal, guitar and piano, and can sometimes sound a little sparse.
Talks to the heart, with some kicking harmonica too. February 15, 2002
17 out of 17 found this review helpful
I had read so many reviews of this album that told me to buy it before I actually did, now I feel its indispensible to my collection. Never has an album title been so apt, songs that speak some of the innermost thoughts that everybody has had. However, if I had bought this album just after breaking up with someone I fear it may have pushed me over the edge. Instead it reminds me of how I have felt, but never in a bad way. 'Come pick me up' is basically the best send off. Saying do what you like but I'm fine. Do it as many times as you want to, I'll be fine, but whats it doing to you? Complete with kick ass harmonica. For me an album high point. 'Sweet Carolina' speaks to the heart and brings a tear to my eye. Another favorite, but as a whole they're all great. Ryan Adams has had his heart broken and thank god, or we would never have got this album.
Damn Sam, Modern Classic Alert February 21, 2003
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
I've often wondered what it would be like to have been around at the time when some of the accepted great albums of all time had come out - say 'Revolver', 'Blood On The Tracks', 'Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders of Mars'. I've wondered what those albums would have meant to me at the time of their release, if the potency they have now has diminished over time or whether it is just the same.pWith 'Heartbreaker' I think I may have found out what it feels like to be there at the birth of one of the 'classics'. Because, hand on heart, this is just that. A genuinely superb record that is more emotionally expressive now I have returned to it as I remember it being first time around.pSo, you may ask, what are the qualities that make it so good. And that is certainly a pertinent question. Dozens and dozens of records have been made with similar intent, detailing the dead-end feelings of a breaking/broken relationship, but very few reach the stellar heights of this. But why; it is quite a simple record, not much more complex than guitar, bass, drums and the odd bit of piano and harmonica. Nothing out of the ordinary there. Adams's voice is expressive but nothing extraordinary in itself.pWhat does that leave us with? Well, it leaves us with the one thing that makes or breaks an album beyond quirks and novelties and that is simply incredibly good songs. Aside from the breezy opener 'To Be Young (is to be sad, is to be high)', the tone is one of spiritual and emotional depletion beginning in earnest with the breathtakingingly beautiful 'My Winding Wheel'.pFrom there the emotional odyssey travels through pining for home ('Oh My Sweet Carolina'), pining for a hurtful girlfriend ('Come Pick Me Up), pining for a girl that's left you ('Why Do They Leave') and general pining ('Damn Sam, I Love A Woman That Rains). Each of these tracks is as perfect an example of songwriting as can be envisaged, the theme it is attempting to evoke is there before you, clear as day, and it is, well, plain heartbreaking.pSubsequent releases, 'Gold' and 'Demolition' have been quality records but when I am honest with myself I have to doubt that Adams will ever create anything as beautiful, transcendental and lasting as this in his career. Having felt the shivers run down me on re-listening to this it seems obvious to me that real classics have an undiminishable impact as time wears on, I can't help but feel in twenty years time the feeling will be the same.pTimeless and peerless.
Breathtaking! August 19, 2002
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
Heartbreaker is the name of the album, and is perhaps prophetic of the albums effect on it's listeners... it broke my heart just listening too it, and this was during the happiest time of my 18 year life yet when i was personally as far from heartbreak as could be... or maybe not. You've got to have it to break it! But this album reminded me what it feels like to be heartbroken. But only the best bits, when the sun just starts to rise again. This, you must understand, is not a complaint!pInitially drawn into Ryan Adams by a friend who played me Come Pick Me Up (a track to which i was instantly addicted), i bought the album a week or so later. And instantly i was thrilled with the emotion that is woven between every song. Oh My Sweet Carolina is one of the best songs ive heard for a long time. Other tracks such as AMY, Winding Wheel and of course, Come Pick Me Up, make this album stand out from your average album. You see, this is far far from your average album!pWords to describe it are not in abundance because none quite seem to describe the whole album. So i'll just use about as bland a generalisation as i can and say this album is simply breathtaking. Don't expect guitar solos, dont expect drum riffs and dont expect to dance around. Expect instead to feel as if every emotional song on this incredible album was written for you. This isn't an album to jump around too. This is an album to identify with, this is an album to explain things to you. This is an album for your lowest low and your highest high. This is an album of reflection and celebration and comiseration.pPut simply, just buy it!
Emotional, magical, brilliant September 25, 2001
Mr. M. J. Hulme
26 out of 28 found this review helpful
When Whiskeytown folded, and Caitlin Cary and Ryan Adams went their separate ways, it wasn't easy to tell what would follow. Ryan Adams has, however, released possibly the definitive alt.country solo album as his debut. With nods to Highway 61 era Dylan (To be young is to be sad, is to be high) and Steve Earle (Shakedown...), the electric-backed songs charge along at breakneck speed, crackling with energy. You can picture the band in the studio playing hard, having a hell of a time and recording some great, loose, ragged country-rock.pBut for every tune played with a full band, the real masterpieces on this album feature Ryan Adams, an acoustic guitar and a minimum of backing. If 'Call me on your way back home', the dissection of a failing relationship, doesn't make the hair on the back of your neck stand on end, then musically nothing ever will. AMY is equally beautiful in a haunting way, and the production of the guitar and vocals brings the intimacy that many recordings aspire to but never reach.pNot only is this a brilliant album, it is the arrival of a very singular and significant talent. Music lovers will still be playing this album for years to come. It's even good enough to make you forgive the indulgence on Gold. But this isn't good as gold - it's a different class.
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