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Ryan Adams
GOLD (alt.)
According to sonicnet.com, this would have been the tracklisting for Gold if it had been a double album: "New York, New York" "Cannonball Day" "Rosalie Come and Go" "Off Broadway" "Tina Taleda Street Walkin' Blues" "When Stars Go Blue" "Dear Chicago" "Touch, Feel and Lose" "It's Only Going to Make You Love Me More" "I Wish I Had a Sylvia Plath" "Somehow, Someday" "Harder Now That It's Over" "Fool's Gold" "Maralisa" "The Fools We Are as Men" "Firecracker" "Answering Bell" "Wildflowers" "You're Nobody, Girl" "La Cienega Just Smiled" "The Bar Is a Beautiful Place" "From You to Me" "The Rescue Blues" "Sweet Black Magic" "Goodnight Hollywood Boulevard"
Ryan Adams acoustic/electric guitar/harmonica/piano/banjo
Ethan Johns acoustic and electric guitars/drums/bass/chamberlin/glockenspiel/B-3/vibes/mandolin/background vocals/harmonium/mandocellobanjo/ vocals
Richard Causon piano
Chris Stills bass/ background vocals/acoustic guitar/electric guitar
Kamasi Washington saxophone
Benmont Trench piano/ hammond b-3
Jennifer Condos bass
Bucky Baxter steel guitar
Adam Duritz background vocals
Juliana Raye background vocals
Milo De Cruz bass
CC White background vocals
Rami Jaffi accordion
AndreCarter trumpet
Jim Keltner - drums
produced by Ethan Johns
engineered and mixed by Ethan Johns
assistant engineer, Steven Rhodes
mastered by Doug Sax and Robert Hadley at The Mastering Lab (Hollywood),
recorded at the Sunset Sound Factory, Los Angeles
Random Notes
Other Songs Recorded During the Gold Sessions
Dear Chicago - originally recorded for Heartbreaker and the Suicide Handbook, then later released on Demolition
She Wants to Play a Game of Hearts - recorded for the Suicide Handbook and released on Demolition.
Cry on Demand - Also recorded for The Suicide Handbook and eventually released on Demolition.
Off Broadway - Also recorded for The Suicide Handbook and eventually re-recorded and released on Easy Tiger.
Fools Gold - an unreleased gem of a song that sounds like early 70's Bob Dylan.
Other Random Info:
When listening to "When the Stars Go Blue", according to Ryan : "Think of the star as someone hiding away in her Beverly Hills mansion and saying an awful lot. Listen to the song again with that in mind and see what you think." (Los Angeles Times 2/3/02)
"Firecracker" was originally written by Ryan Adams for Lucinda Williams to sing.
"New York New York" was not meant to be anthem for NYC, it was actually written with an old girlfriend in mind and instead of using her name. He switched it with "New York New York". (Although the woman it's written about was living with Ryan in NYC, so it sort of still has to do with with NYC)
"New York New York" was nominated for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance at the 2002 Grammy Awards.
Gold was nominated for Best Rock Album at the 2002 Grammy Awards.
A picture Ryan age 5, and his older brother - age 9, dressed up as Kiss for Halloween is show the liner notes.
In the liner notes of Gold, Ryan thanks Alanis Morresette multiple times. He supposedly lost a bet with her and that was part of the deal when Ryan lost.
Early versions of "Answering Bell", "La Cienega Just Smiled", "Mara Lisa", "Touch Feel and Lose","Firecracker" and "Wild Flowers" can all be found on the unreleased album - The Suicide Handbook.
"Enemy Fire" has also been recorded for the Pinkhearts album and on the Exile on Franklin Street album.
An early version of "The Rescue Blues" can also be found on The Q Division Demos and Exile on Franklin Street.
An early version of "Rosalie Come and Go" can be found on the unreleased album - Exile on Franklin Street.
The Artwork/Cover
In response to why he picked a flag for the cover of Gold:
"We did the cover shoot out in Los Angeles, and we did a lot of different poses and everything. One of the things we had was this big huge flag, and I thought it just looked powerful - that's what attracted me to it. I also kind of wanted to tweak the whole Bruce Springsteen 'Born in the U.S.A.' thing. Instead of me standing there all tough like Bruce, I'm in my slouchy, twitchy posture, my head down, my hair a mess. We thought it looked cool, but it was also meant to be a bit of a goof." (New York Times Magazine 11/4/01)
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Following the release of his 2000 debut for Bloodshot Records, Heartbreaker, the DRA was already writing more songs than anyone could keep up with. In January 2001, he entered Javalina Studios in Nashville and recorded the 21-song often bootlegged Suicide Handbook collection. Those songs were rejected by his new label (Lost Highway) for being 'too dark' and Ryan re-recorded some of the songs as part of a new concept he was tinkering with for what became the album Gold.
In a previous post, I tackled what a single disc of the Suicide Handbook would be like if it had been released in early 2001. Many fans of Heartbreaker (I also covered an alternate version of this using tracks from its Deluxe Edition) were disappointed in the change in style for Gold. I think releasing SH in between the two would have led to a better overall response for when after Gold was released on Sept. 11 (!) that same fateful year.
Gold was originally intended to be a 25-song double CD with the concept of Ryan performing in a variety of styles--as in turning the dial across 1970's era radio. Adjusting for acoustic versions of tracks he recorded for the previous project--I mixed in some of the b-sides and leftovers to make a single 17-track CD (for my alt. RA discog). All unreleased tracks and b-sides can be easily found online. Ryan recently shared a demo of "Play With Fire" by The Rolling Stones in tribute to the recent passing of their legendary drummer, Charlie Watts (Rest in Power---good sir). I'm sure a deluxe reissue is just around the corner....
- Play With Fire (bonus track)*
- Ghost
- My Love For You is Real
- Liar
