SMASH ADDAMS, 'Hard to Get Over' [2023 reissue]

The original 2004-05 session produced with the late Leo Goff, III as one of his first projects overseeing everything. We had previously worked together recording the E.P. at Ardent back in 2003 with my former band, MANICS. I chose to keep working with him on a solo project and he brought in some local cats including Annie Freres, Grayson Grant, Nigel Albertson, my friend Lita Williams, and I'm sure I'm forgetting a someone or two...but I learned alot working with him and I do regret I hadn't seen him since 2006...he was busy with his work with YO GOTTI a lot of the time. I've read he went on do to just what he did best. I think of him for the brief time I knew him. Funny, chill guy and a great producer / intuitive guy. That's just what I learned from that sliver of time in my life...twenty years later, give or take a lost weekend or two since I started living again, hehe. Also, a shout out to Eric Seaburg for providing the original artwork (2004). The album was made on a shoe-string budget of time and little to no money over a few months at Nu-Star mostly (thanks to Robert Picone for letting us in during those spare moments to work). We tracked some piano at Young Avenue and Ardent...later post-production done by me at home, late 2011. This was supposed to be my very first album but it ended up being my tenth, LOL. 

"Time has its way with everyone in its path..."

Please enjoy my first and most memorable in times recording in Memphis in real studios with some great musicians who gave us the pleasure of contributing their talents to something that wasn't in the world before we found it. Rest in power, LG3. 

CHeers!

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The 2018 *updated* alternate mix with drum ODs and the b-side, "Never Apart." Released by VandettaMusic1 in early 2021.

WHISKEYTOWN: Alternate Discography (1995-2001)

1. Midway Park
2. Drank Like A River
3. Too Drunk To Dream
4. Tennessee Square (Re-Issue Version)
5. What May Seem Like Love
6. Faithless Street
7. Mining Town
8. If He Can't Have You
9. Black Arrow, Bleeding Heart
10. Matrimony
11. Excuse Me While I Break My Own Heart Tonight (Country Version)
12. Desperate Ain't Lonely
13. Hard Luck Story
14. Top Dollar
15. Lo-Fi Tennessee Mountain Angel
16. Revenge

LISTEN HEAR AT THIS SITE (**Not mine**)

1. My Heart Is Broken

2. Kiss and Make Up

3. Further Down the Road

4. Ten Seconds Til the End of the World

5. Here's to the Rest of the World

6. Empty Baseball Park

7. San Antonio

8. Factory Girl

9. All You Can Feel

10. New York Angel

11. Only to Lose

1. INN TOWN
2. YESTERDAY'S NEWS
3. 16 DAYS
4. EVERYTHING I DO (Miss You)
5. HOUSES ON THE HILL
6. WITHER, I'M A FLOWER+
7. DANCING WITH THE WOMEN AT THE BAR
8. WAITING TO DERAIL
9. AVENUES
10. STREET OF SIRENS+
11. TURN AROUND
12. ME AND MY TICKET*
13. BREATHE*
14. SOMEBODY REMEMBERS THE ROSE
15. TICKET TIME+
16. LOSERING
17. NOT HOME ANYMORE

CHECK IT OUT HEAR AT: 

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01 Anyone But Me 

02 Don’t Wanna Know Why

03 Easy Hearts

04 Sittin’ Around

05 Rays of Burning Light 

06 Ghost Without Memory

07 Runnin’ Out of Road

08 Can’t Take a Lover 

09 Think About Me 

10 Crazy Lonesome 

11 Caroline

HAPPY GO BYE-BYE  

(1999)

1. Don't Wanna Know Why
2. Jacksonville Skyline
3. Tilt-A-Whirl
4. Mirror, Mirror 
5. The Ballad of Carol Lynn
6. What the Devil Wanted

7. 

   Don't Be Sad
8. Crazy About You
9. My Hometown
10. Reason to Lie
11. Paper Moon
12. Under Your Breath
13. Bar Lights
14. Choked Up
15. Tell Me What Else I Can Do Wrong Tonight
16. Listen to the Radio
17. The Battle

 

1. Today
2. Clearly Destroyed
3. Breathe
4. Fool
5. All I Wanted
6. Out of Time
7. Sit and Listen to the Rain
8. Leave the Lights Off
9. Probably Bound to Happen
10. West NY Serenade
11. Lil' Girls (Hurts Sometimes)
12. Medicine
13. Silver Wings

RYAN ADAMS AND THE CARDINALS, "Color Bars" [imagined LP]

 

According to reddit: '[YouTube user] Future posted "Heartbreaker", "Anything But No" and "Juliette" but then removed it after Ryan's management requested that it and the (amazing) Rat Classics 2 tracks be removed.' These are leftovers from 'The Complete Easy Tiger Sessions (2006-07); a few appeared in some form on Easy Tiger; most belatedly included on the 2010 release of III/IV (the band had four different albums at one point). "The Rat Classics 2 tracks are, I think, from August 06 or later in the Easy Tiger sessions," quote from reddit user Disink. Thank you to the OP, Adamamericana (no relation, lol) and graciousfew for the info! 

Ryan Adams & The Cardinals

COLOR BARS  (2006)

Contains early mixes of songs
from Easy Tiger and III/IV.

1. Anything But No
2. Heartbreaker
3. Gracie+   [III / IV]
4. Roach Heaven
5. These Girls
6. Juliet (aka "Color Bars")
   
7. Typecast  (with Norah Jones)
8. The Crystal Skull 
9. Stop Playin’ with My Heart+    [III / IV]
10. Halloween Head+    (edited for Easy Tiger)    
11. Turns It Up to Ten (a.k.a. "Judy Garland")
12. Ultraviolet Lights    
13. Pussy Cat, Funny Face
14. The Sewers at the Bottom of the Wishing Well  
15. Oh My God, Whatever, Etc. (acoustic)  

Have you heard me?
In the fall of 2022, a since deleted YouTube account leaked several tracks from various unreleased sessions; including "HEAVEN", "A Wish", "Rollin' with the Punches", "Party Clown", "24/7", "Temples of God"  and "Oh My God Whatever, Etc. (alt. take)" from RATT CLASSICS, VOL. II.

A snippet of "Kim" from the HAYWIRE (rumored title to Glyn Johns's second record with DRA that was shelved in 2013) LP sessions also leaked; "Two Hearts" (acoustic demo for EASY TIGER)" and a Sad Dracula version of "Two"; plus CARDINOLOGY era demos, BLACKHOLE demos, etc. Most of them have been wiped but some of us grabbed it up, haha. There's an album worth of songs leftover (not including the ones re-recorded for III/IV with the Cardinals) from the sessions for 'WAR & PEACE' (Ryan's post-'Darkbreaker' sober 2xLP that was shelved by Lost Highway in 2006). Improved versions of "Maps" and "Who Were We?" are a highlight.