PAX-AM Sessions Chronology***UPDATE 2023*** (ALIEN USA, PRISONER trilogy, etc.)

 Updates re: 2022 albums and chronology; personnel info, etc. 

ALIEN USA 

2xLP with The Shining at Pax Am...fall 2013 after scrapped 2nd album with Glyn Johns (HAYWIRE a. k. a. TOO BORED TO RUN: "Shining Through the Dark"; "Crooked Shake"; "Kim"- version 1; "In the Shadows"; "Haywire"; early versions of " Too Bored to Run", "I Do Not Feel Like Being Good", "How Much Light"; etc.)

Personnel: Ryan Adams, Charlie Stavish, Mike Viola, Marshall Vore; Jeremy Stacey; others... 

The DEVOLVER album except for "Free Yourself"  (new song*); released 2022. "I Am Alone" with Johnny T. (?) from Prisoner 2014-15 sessions. CHRIS album tracks: "Flicker in the Fade"; " Schizophrenic Babylon"; " Chris"; " Lookout (The Past)"; "Burn in the Night"; 'On My Life"; plus *"I Can See the Light" (streamed on IG, early 2023*)

S/T sessions at Pax-AM  (with Mike Viola; Jeremy Stacey; Tal Wilkenfeld; Marshall Vore; Johnny Depp; Mandy Moore)

1984/1985/1986/1987/1983 (Ryan solo)

The Shining II sessions 

"Do You Still Love Me?" from PRISONER (2017)

Personnel: Ryan Adams; Daniel Clarke; Charlie Stavish; Jason Boesell; Mike Viola

Other tracks possibly include "Love Me Don't"; "Fantasy File"; "Do You Feel"  from FM album released in 2022.

PRISONER pt. 1 and 2  recorded summer 2014-spring 2015 . "As  'Heartbreaker' as it gets" - DRA, 2016 interview discussing the two-part solo project he made prior to the recording of 1989. 

25 songs recorded for two part double album. 23 songs including "Dive"; "You Don't Love Me"; "Stay Alive"; "I'll Wait"; "Replaced"; "Take It Back"; "Still A Cage"; "Moving Target"; "Say What You Said"; "I Got Lost" ; "Spinning Wheel"; " Was I Wrong"; " Letting the Light In"; "Baby I Love You"; PRISONER 2017 album tracks except for "Do You Still Love Me" (taken from The Shining's scrapped 2nd album sessions following tour in 2014).

1989 

PRISONER part 3 (Pax-AM sessions 2015-16)  with Johnny T.

"So Helpless"; "I Am Alone"; "The Cold" and PRISONER B-SIDES 

L. A. RAIN MUSIC (Feb - Apr 2018 at Pax-AM)

Personnel: Ryan Adams; Tod W.; Aaron Ficca; Charlie Stavish

17 songs including tracks from BC, WEDNESDAYS; R & J ("L. A. Rain") and FM (except for "When She Smiles", "So Dumb", and The Shining tracks) See LA RAIN MUSIC entry. "Sword and Stone"; "Mercy"

Wednesdays / Big Colors / Chris*

Personnel: Ryan Adams; Johnny T. ; Beatriz Artola; Don Was; Benmont Tench; John Mayer; others. 

48 songs recorded at Electric Lady Studios in NY in July 2018. 43 songs for BC / Wednesdays / R & J* albums (except "In the Meadow" and new PaxAm tracks*). "Don't Follow"; "When She Smiles"; "So Dumb"; "I Was Here"; "Nightmare"; others. Overdubs were added to tracks from the Pax-Am sessions. See I WAS HERE entry. "Orange Rinds (Who is Gonna Save Me Now)" was later leaked on Ryan's own IG in 2023.

Capitol Studios with Don Was (Fall 2018)…most of the original WEDNESDAYS album (including "Nobody Wins" and "Pennsylvania Moon"---renamed to "Anything" and "My Heaven", respectively--for R&J album) except "When You Cross Over"; "Birmingham"; "Mamma" and 'Take Me Home". Personnel: Ryan Adams; Don Was; Beatriz Artola; Benmont Tench; Stephen Pratt; Brendan McCusker; Emmylou Harris; Jason Isbell*; others. 
Overdubs were added to tracks from PaxAm and ELS sessions. Jason Isbell is rumored to have participated in overdubs (most likely guitar) for "Birmingham". The song was recorded with Tod, Aaron, and Charlie at Pax-Am back in the Spring of 2018 (along with "When You Cross Over" and possibly "Like a Heatwave" and "Red and Orange Special"). John Mayer overdubbed a guitar solo on "Dreaming You Backwards" that only appears on the UK import LP version (instead of the solo Ryan did himself on the US LP editions). 

Ryan invited the then surviving members of The Cardinals to initially record at ELS prior to the July session but it didn't happen, as we know. 

Session with The Wolf Bros. at Pax-AM, April 2019.  
 "Pacific Line"; "Trouble on Wheels" (streamed on IG in 2019). The original 'CHRIS' album was rumored to be a double album more in the style of Cold Roses (his brother's "favourite"). It was supposedly scrapped because Ryan said "it was bullshit" or something to that effect. "Manhattan in the Rain" was streamed on his IG during the ELS sessions in July 2018. The actual CHRIS album released in 2022 is believed to actually be PRISONER 2/3 (teased for release along with Blackhole and the live albums Captiol Theatre with Stringdusters and Exile on Meryl Streep--the Rolling Stones' double album performed lived in NOLA); mentioned on his IG, spring 2018. 'L.A. Rain' had also been mentioned as "17 new songs just recorded." Ryan announced he had scrapped that album in April 2018. After that, we know he entered ELS in July 2018 and cut 48 songs during his time there; he recorded 19 songs in one day, reportedly. 

 'Sidewriting against Heartbreaker' (fall 2021)

"Too Old to Die Young"; "(I'm on a) Rollercoaster"; "Counting to Zero"; ?

Demo sessions at Pax-Am in 2021-22 including "Bye Bye Balloons"; "I Can't Remember"; "Romeo and Juliet"; "Desperate Times"; "What is Left"; "Something's Missing"; "At Home with the Animals"; 'Theo is Dreaming"; 'This is Your House"; "Brighter Than Heaven"; "Valentine"; ?