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RYAN ADAMS
Trapped in the New World (2002)
- Mix Tapes
- 1986 (a.k.a. "Trapped in the New World")
- Alanis
- Soundtrack of Your Life
- Coma White
- Diamonds or Hearts
- You're So Pretty, You're So Cool
- Psalms
- Sunday, Wish You Were Here
- Rocket Man (Take 2, live) + [Taken from CMT Crossroads ep. with Elton John
All songs unreleased except "Rocket Man" (added as a bonus track).
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Collection of live recordings from 2001-02 bootlegged and easily found online. These songs were a darker collection of bluesy psychedelic style jams. No studio versions of any of these songs have leaked. "Diamonds or Hearts" is a re-write of the bootlegged Gold outtake "Fool's Gold" (and was also re-recorded in 2005 during the Jacksonville City Nights sessions). "Vampire" was subsequently recorded during the Love is Hell sessions. "Soundtrack of Your Life" was later recorded with new lyrics as "Luxury" during the Rock N' Roll album sessions. Nine songs clocking in around 44 minutes. As close as it gets to Ryan's vision to TV host Charlie Rose about "finding a connection between deep, spiritual R&B and psychedelic rock music." A lot of material to go through...sound quality and finding a good flow is key. A lot of the songs from this period were just extended jams. It's not unimaginable Ryan's ambitions exceeded the quality of material. Here's some more background:
After completing a tour promoting his major-label debut, Gold, Ryan Adams was showing no signs of slowing down. After having completed two more albums: the twangy country-rock 48 Hours and (the debut of his Nashville based band, The Pinkhearts) Let It B-Minus--a disc of Replacements-meets-Pixies style rock wrapped in Stones nostalgia--Adams was back in the studio in Nashville with legendary producer Scott Litt to record the follow-up to Gold with his touring band, The Sweetheart Revolution. It's unknown exactly which 19 songs were recorded (besides allegedly the 2004 b-side "Suspicion") because the sessions were scrapped. Ryan and the band finished up work on the Pinkhearts CD --though some of the tracks were supposed to be included as bonus material part of the never released 20/20 box set rumored in 2007. It's also been said RA re-recorded the material on his own after a fan mentioned 'wanting to hear what it sounded like' on social media.
After scrapping the sessions with Scott Litt, Ryan Adams would go on to record his next project, Love is Hell. This begins another really interesting period of creativity and unreleased albums with Adams ultimately at loggerheads with his label, Lost Highway. I will cover this next chapter in future posts....Cheers!
