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Ryan Adams: Jacksonville City Nights
Interview, Oct, 2005 by Alan Light
With its honky-tonk instrumentation, heavy on pedal steel and weepy violin, Jacksonville City Nights could easily be considered the "return to alt-country" album many Ryan Adams fans have been waiting for since his 2000 debut Heart-breaker. But to settle for such a description makes this project sound somehow regressive.
Adams delivers raw, emotional narratives; on highlights like "Hard Way to Fall" and "Trains" he creates a singular feeling--live and loose, but focused and powerful. The restless Adams has spent too much time in recent years convincingly impersonating his heroes. But here he's done something far more impressive--he's made a record that sounds like Ryan Adams.
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