RYAN ADAMS, 'I Was Here' [re-imagined LP]

Ryan Adams

I WAS HERE  (2022)

---Side 1

Rollercoaster

In the Blue of the Night

Nightmare*     [DRA 2023 IG post] 

Poor Connection

Run

Memory Lane   

---Side 2

I Was Here   [Sword and Stone] 

Friday Night NYC   [Sword and Stone]

Manhattan in the Rain    [Sword and Stone] 

Nuclear War     [Sword and Stone] 

Blizzard in the Room    [Sword and Stone]

Make It Stop   [Sword and Stone] 

---Side 3

Don't Follow*    [CHRIS bonus track]

Earthquake

Hold Me Together

Losers

They Will Know Our Love

---Side 4

Pacific Line*  [DRA 2021 IG post] 

The long awaited final installment of the projected 2019 trilogy with the original Big Colors and Wednesdays albums. As we know, history did not unfold as it originally was intended to be by the music's author. Both aforementioned albums were belatedly release in opposite order (December 2020 and July 2021, respectively) with different artwork and tracklists. The original CHRIS album has been described by RA as 'Cold Roses style tunes his late brother, Chris loved'---also as 'inauthentic' or something similar to paraphrase--as justification for scrapping the planned 18-song double LP and 're-doing it'. The end result is suspiciously sounding like the previously 'aborted' Prisoner 2/3 double LP that RA teased in 2018 (in the same paragraph promising the finished version of  Blackhole; as well as a couple live albums-- Live at The Capitol Theatre with The Stringdusters and Exile on Meryl Streep). 

Most of those songs indeed can be traced back to the eighty or so songs reportedly recorded from the 2014-16 sessions for Prisoner. However, we have enough songs from the July 2018 session (and tracks most likely done at Pax-Am leftover from the sessions for s/t and Prisoner) to make an album that clocks in around 57 minutes---plus, the 17-minute "Pacific Line" (from the April 2019 session with The Wolf Bros.) taking up a whole side on the second LP, like Dylan's Blonde on Blonde. 

Songs taken from Romeo & Juliet and Sword and Stone; "Nightmare", and "Pacific Line" have been streamed on RA's IG stream 2021-23. The latter is easily found on YouTube.

BELOW IS A SPOTIFY PLAYLIST

 (it's missing the *imported* tracks that are not streaming; "My Heaven" was recently identified possibly as "Pennsylvania Moon" from Wednesdays---so I've moved it to my own mix of that album)

RYAN ADAMS, Alternate Solo Discography *UPDATE 2024*

 

I traded out some songs for the outtakes and demos included on the Deluxe Reissue version. Outtakes include "Pa" (not circulating), "Goodbye Honey", "Dear Chicago", "To Be Young (acoustic)", "When the Rope Gets Tight", "Petal in a Rainstorm", "War Horse", "Locked Away", etc.

RYAN ADAMS 

Heartbreaker  (2000)

• (Argument with David Rawlings Concerning Morrisey)
• To Be Young (Is to Be Sad, Is to Be High)
• My Winding Wheel
• Amy
• Why Do They Leave?
• Call Me On Your Way Back Home
• Locked Away*
• Punk Jam*
• Come Pick Me Up
• Oh My Sweet Carolina
• War Horse*
• Shakedown on 9th Street
• Petal in a Rainstorm*  (a.k.a. "Oh My Sweet Valentine")
• When the Rope Gets Tied*

Also See DESTROYER 

The 'finished' version of COMMERCIAL SUICIDE (as RA now calls it) includes a 16-piece string section with parts arranged by Ryan Adams. Also features drummer Brad Pemberton and unnamed bass player. The finished mix also includes different songs including "Fix It" (piano version). The current 21-song promo 2CD has been circulating for years--but it only features RA in an acoustic session with support from the late, great Bucky Baxter singing harmony and playing slide guitar, etc.

RYAN ADAMS 

Suicide Handbook (2001)

• Wildflowers
• Perfect and True 
• Tell it To My Heart
• She Wants to Play Hearts*
• Pretenders
• Famous Eyes
• For No One
• You Don't Know Me
• Bow to the Sad Lady
• Off Broadway
• Cracks in a Photograph
• I'm Waiting
• Cry On Demand*
• Miss Sunflower
• Just Saying Hi (Answering Bell)
• My California Love
• Dear Chicago*
• Abigail
• Just Like a Whore 
• Gimme Sunshine
• Idiots Rule the World 

Originally a proposed 25-track double CD set; I substituted some leftovers in place of songs that went on my mix of Suicide Handbook. Outtakes include "Fool's Gold", "From You to Me", "She Wants to Play a Game of Hearts", "Cry On Demand" and "Off Broadway"---as well as "Mara Lisa" and "Dear Chicago" (originally intended to close Heartbreaker).

I left off "Tina Toledo's Street Walking Blues" and "Sylvia Plath".

"Enemy Fire" & "Answering Bell" I added to my alt versions of the Pinkhearts album and Demolition, respectively.

Ryan Adams

GOLD  (2001)

1. New York, New York
2. Cannonball Days
3. Rosalie Come and Go
4. When the Stars Go Blue
5. Make You Love Me More
6. Somehow, Someday
7. Harder Now That It's Over
8. The Fools We Are as Men
9. Touch, Feel & Lose
10. Nobody, Girl
11. La Cienega Just Smiled
12. The Bar Is a Beautiful Place
13. From You to Me*
14. The Rescue Blues
15. Sweet Black Magic
16. Goodnight Hollywood Boulevard

LISTEN TO 'Fool's Gold 00/02' on YouTube (+not made by me+)

Alternate 'Demolition' with songs from '48 Hours'; 'Pinkhearts'; 'SH';  outtakes from 'Gold'; as well as cuts from 'Destroyer', 'Exile on Franklin Street' (2000),'The Stockholm Sessions' (2001), and the 'Cowboy Technical Service' session (2000).

Compilation of the two sessions with additional recording(?) with Scott Litt in 2002 session. The album was to be titled (at one point) 'Let It B-Minus' (an homage to The Replacements) and released in mid-2002. Outtakes include instrumental tracks to "Blowin' the Coug", "On My Way", "Testy, Testy" and an earlier take of "Enemy Fire"; an RHCP parody ("Around the World"/ Under the Bridge") as well as the Stones homage "Saturday Night" (diff song than Darkbreaker track), "Everybody's Talking 'Bout Shania Twain", "Still Waiting On You" and "Game Over" (early version of "Interstellar Collider"). The latter song was probably destroyed, lol. This info came from a RS article circa-summer 2001 where DRA is laying down vocals to "Nuclear" and the band is struggling with recording the song ("Game Over"). Ryan announces he "had a dream about 'some chick being like this....interstellar collider'." He then proceeds to lay down the vocals with the newly inspired lyrics. The engineer tells Ryan the pitch on the vocal sounds funny--to which RA replies "Fuck pitch--I'm not playing baseball here!"

Ryan Adams 

PINKHEARTS   (2002)

1. Nuclear    [Demolition]
2. Interstellar Collider*
3. Blue and Shy*
4. Red Red Red Red Wine*
5. Enemy Fire+    [Gold]
6. Gimme a Sign   [Demolition]
7. Tomorrow (My Baby's Going Home)    [Demolition]
8. I Took Your Puppies to a Race Car Track*
9. Win*    
10. Down at the Movies*
11. Tennessee Sucks     [Demolition]
12. Starting to Hurt    [Demolition]
13. Mega-Superior Gold*
14. Fuck It...I Broke Yer Cat*
15. Young Winds (I'll See You)*

According to DRA the finished mastered version was ready to go (as of 2007) and has tracks not available on the '48 Hours' promo CD. Because Universal still owns the released recordings (i.e. the 2002 Demolition comp)--the proposed unreleased albums (in particular 48 HOURS and 'The Suicide Handbook') were essentially bootlegged by his own label! Promotional CDs with the unfinished session were sent out by Lost Highway--and those promo CDs have been pirated by everybody, lol. Unfortunately, this has 'diminished' the value of selling the albums--because they would be incomplete. Since leaving Lost Highway in 2009, RA retained all the unreleased masters to release at his own discretion. So we're probably fucked, lol. At this rate--I think Blackhole and possibly a compilation of 4-track demos ("going back to Hearbreaker era up 'til 2005") is probably the most we can expect from any Lost Highway era archival releases in the future.

Ryan Adams 

48 HOURS   (alt.)

01. Dear Chicago+   [Fool's Gold bootleg]

02. Hallelujah*

03. Walls
04. Desire*
05. Angelina

06. Fool's Gold+   [Fool's Gold bootleg]

07. Ghost+   [Cowboy Technical Service Session bootleg]  

08. Like the Twilight
09. Chin Up, Cheer Up*

10. Hey There, Mrs. Lovely+    [Extra Cheese E.P.]
11. Born Yesterday
12. Blue**
13. One for the Rose
14. Karina (false start)
15. Karina

16. Song for Keith+   ["Nuclear" b-side]

17. Little Moon

Songs marked * appear on DEMOLITION compilation.

** import bonus track

Based on a track listing from a 10-song promo disc. 19 songs were recorded; but DRA says it was mostly scrapped. They finished up work on the 'Pinkhearts' record (includes "Charmed" and "Candy Doll") and a couple songs from the current live set including "Psalms" (or "Coma White" which is a/k/a "Sister, Sister") and "Do Miss America". "I Know Where I Live", "Tears", and "See Mary Dance" (possibly "Dance All Night") are NOT circulating. "Hard Way to Fall" is the 'Fan Club version' which was either recorded then or re-done for 'Love is Hell' in New Orleans. "On Fire" appears on the 2006 Sad Dracula digital LP, 'Fasterpiece'. It's been stated by DRA that some of the stuff from 'the Scott Litt sessions' would appear as bonus material on the 'Pinkhearts' disc included in the shelved '20-20' box set. The leftover songs were supposedly re-recorded by Ryan on his own-- in response to a Twitter user asking 'what do they sound like?'

RYAN ADAMS 

Saturday Night Fever Blister   (2003)

01. Hard Way To Fall  [Fan Club Version]*

02. Psalms (Baby Treat Me Right)+     [TRAPPED IN THE NEW WORLD*]   

03. Candy Doll    [Pinkhearts II session]

04. Charm Attached*  (a.k.a. "Charmed")   [Pinkhearts II session]

05. One By One    ["Wonderwall"  single]

06. Suspicion     ["Wonderwall" CD2 single]

07. The Last Dance   [Exile on Franklin Street' promo*]

08. This Is It (acoustic)+    ["This Is It" single]

09. I Know Where I Live    [Exile on Franklin Street' promo*]

10. Do Miss America*   [Llor N' Kcor]

11. Saturday Night+   [Pinkhearts session]

See Trapped in the New World 

Personnel:

 Ryan Adams; Scott Litt; Warren Petersen; Brad Pemberton; Bucky Baxter; Dan Eisenberg; Brad Rice; Billy Mercer; others ?Bucky Baxter (guitar/pedal steel/vocals); Dan Eisenberg (organ/Wurlitzer); Billy Mercer (bass); Brad Pemberton (drums); Brad Rice (guitar).

THANK YOU to megasuperiorgold for sooo much info!

RYAN ADAMS 

Career Ender  [5xLP Box Set] 

1 You Will Always Be The Same  [Demolition]

2 For Beth

3 Dear Anne

4 Poor Jimmy

5 Madeline II

6 Oh, Charles

7 My Love For You is Real (take 2)*  [Cowboy Technical Service session]

8 Not In Love

9 Friendly Fire

10 Fool For You

11 How Ya Doin'?*   [Exile on Franklin Street ]

1. Political Scientist
2. Afraid Not Scared
3. This House is Not For Sale
4. Anybody Wanna Take Me Home
5. When the Music Don't Come
6. Love is Hell
7. City Rain, City Streets
8. English Girls Can Be So Mean
9. Caterwaul
10. Halloween
11. Fuck the Universe

CAREER ENDER box set that was planned for 2003.
SUICIDE HANDBOOK / 48 HOURS / PINKHEARTS / 
SATURDAY NIGHT FEVERBLISTER - STOCKHOLM SESSIONS / LOVE IS HELL

Ryan Adams

Llor И' Kcor   (2003)

1. This Is It
2. Shallow
3. 1974
4. Note to Self: Don't Die
5. Twice as Bad as Love+    [Love is Hell, pt.2]
6. Liar    ["This Is It" Limited Edition 10" Vinyl Single]
7. Political Scientist+   [Love is Hell, pt. 1]
8. Wish You Were Here
9. So Alive
10. I Want to Go Home+    ["Wonderwall" CD2 single]
11. Hypnotixed    [Love is Hell, pt. 1]
12. Gimme Sunshine+     [Love is Hell 3xLP import]
13. The Drugs Not Working

There were reportedly 11 songs recorded for the original James Barber produced sessions. "Political Song For People I Hate to Sing" and a collaboration with Josh Homme and Brody Dalle still remain unreleased and unheard. "Anybody Wanna Take Me Home", "The Drugs Not Working" and the title track originate from the Love is Hell sessions. They were remixed and overdubbed for this album. "I Want to Go Home"  and the rest on the official album were taken from the earlier sessions produced by Eli Janney. I swapped some tracks out with my mixes of  Love is Hell and the NYC Stratosphere songs left over.

Based on a 11-song promo CD circulating somewhere. These may be earlier versions than their 'RNR' counterparts. I added "Halloween" from the 'LIH' NYC session, since I had no other place for it. DRA said an E.P. of songs from the NYC Stratosphere Sessions would be released along with the Love is Hell two E.P.s in late 2003. But the full sessions remain unreleased. Reportedly about 25 songs were written on acoustic after LIH was rejected a second time. Those songs were recorded in a basement studio in New York (with Eli Janney producing). 

Ryan Adams

DIAMONDZ [NYC Stratosphere Sessions]   

1. Red Lights    ["This Is It" CD Single]
2. Burning Photographs     [Llor 'N LloR]
3. Closer When She Goes   ["This Is It" CD Single]
4. Luminol      [Llor 'N LloR]
5. 
   Ah, Life    [Moroccan Role E.P.]
   
6. Halloween*    [Love is Hell, pt. 1]
7. Funeral Marching     ["This Is It" Limited Edition 10" Vinyl Single]
8. Don't Even Know Her Name     [Moroccan Role E.P.]
9. She's Lost Total Control    [Llor 'N LloR]
10. I'm Coming Over    [Moroccan Role E.P.]
11. Boys   [Llor 'N LloR]
12. Luxury    ["So Alive" b-side]

Ryan Adams

Untitled LP sessions?   

Between April and July of 2003. RA posted several times about going into the studio to work with Ethan Johns, Norah Jones, Gillian Welch, and David Rawlings. The plan was to make a back to basics record on an 8-track recorder, with simple accompaniment of acoustic guitar, banjo, and piano. It is unknown what became of these sessions. Most likely this idea was abandoned and new songs were recorded at Statosphere Sound with Johnny T. on drums and Eli Janney producing. From an interview during this period, RA mentions that Johns had invited him to L.A. to write songs for a new album [to replace Love is Hell]. Obviously, he found his muse once again and the musical direction would lead into the 'basement demos' that would turn into the Rock and Roll album released later that year.

Post from 4/14/03)
I'm recording at home. I'm gonna finish in Jacksonville where I'm from in an old house. I'm using an old 4track until i can get a half-inch 8 track or whatever is more portable. its just piano and vocals, or guitar and vocals, and I'm only overdubbing one or two instruments like a banjo or a weepy little guitar line. its sounding very cool so far. kinda like the trinity sessions or howling wolf bootlegs and a little Joni Mitchell and a shitload of early Dylan influences in the songwriting. they just started coming and so I'm going there.

(Post from 5/30/03)
"...…..Ethan's coming to New York and I have only a limited time if Norah Jones, Gillian Welch and David will be in the band with me and Ethan. merely days. i love you guys for hanging in there with me..."

Thank you to for the info, etc. An excellent resource!

Re-sequenced and edited down to 59 minutes with 14 songs. Includes the unreleased track "When the Music Don't Come" (NYC session). "Anybody Wanna Take Me Home" and "Rock and Roll" are subsequently remixed and edited for Rock and Roll. List of known outtakes include "Jeane", "Vampire", "Witch Hunt", "Stumblin' Through the Dark", "Murder, Sex, Death", "Hard Way to Fall", "Black Clouds", "Gimme Sunshine", "Twice as Bad as Love", "One by One", "This Is It (acoustic)", "Drugs Not Working (early mix)", "I See Monsters (alt. take)", "The Shadowlands" (alt. guitar solo mix)".

Ryan Adams

LOVE IS HELL   (2004)

• Anybody Wanna Take Me Home
• Love is Hell
• Wonderwall
• The Shadowlands
• Afraid Not Scared
• When the Music Don't Come*    [Black Clouds bootleg]
• Rock N' Roll     [LloR N' KcoR]
• English Girls Approximately 
• City Rain, City Streets
• Avalanche
• World War 24
• Please Do Not Let Me Go
• This House is Not For Sale
• I See Monsters

Recorded with producer Ethan Johns over two weeks in August 2004.
Originally planned to be released first in the 2005 trilogy that would include the first two Cardinals records, Cold Roses and Jacksonville City Nights---released in May and September of that year, respectively. 29 would be released in December 2005; making a total of three albums released in one year!

Based on the name of a bonus disc included with the proposed '20-20' box set (intended for a 2007 release?). I used the 7-inch versions of "Now That You're Gone" and "If I Am A Stranger"; and the few 'LIH:NO' outtakes out there--"Black Clouds" (subsequently re-written as "Life is Beautiful"), "One By One", and "My Father's Son" (other b-sides from this period released like "Suspision" and "I Want to Go Home" are said to have been once considered for LIH, as well). Also included is a 2003 demo of the song "What Do You Want" leaked in late 2022 on YouTube (it was played on tour before 'the break'). Cold Roses leftovers included are "Operator, Operator", "So Hot So Cold" (originally performed live with diff lyrics as "First Time's the Last Time"), "Tonight" and "Learn to Love". This could have been a 'stop-gap LP' in another world where LH needed to satiate demand whilst RA recovered from breaking his wrist on tour and taking the next six months off for a painful recovery.

In August, he recorded ten songs with Cardinals bandmate J.P. Bowersock, session bassist Jennifer Condos, etc. with Ethan Johns producing. "Whether We Make It Or Not" was rumored to be recorded for the album but remains unreleased. A live edited version from Jan. 2004 is included here. I know DRA wanted to release '29' on his Pax-Am label that year (as the first part of the 2005 trilogy). I just switched that out for this.

Ryan Adams

DEMOLITIOUS  (2005)

• Now That You're Gone   
• So Hot, So Cold   [Cold Roses  Japan import CD]
• One By One    ["Wonderwall"  single]
• Black Clouds    [Love is Hell  3xLP vinyl Japan import]
• Whether We Make It or Not*    (live solo acoustic, 2004)
• Tonight   ["Easy Plateau" b-side]
• Operator, Operator  [Cold Roses  Japan import CD]
• Learn to Love   ["Easy Plateau" b-side]
• My Father's Son   [Love is Hell 3xLP vinyl Japan import]
• What Do You Want   [1985]
• If I'm A Stranger     ["Now That You're Gone" 7" single]
• This Is It (acoustic)    ["This Is It"  single]     

  

  EXILE ON FRANKLIN STREET (2000)
  
  

  
  
• California
• Do You Wanna Get High?
• Waves Crashing
• Secret Powers
• Blanket of Booze
• Tell Me How You Want Me (Tell Me Why)

A double album with 19 new songs. Recorded in two sessions at Loho Studios in Dec. 2004 with producer and engineer Tom Schick. Leftover studio time led to more recording with over 30 more songs recorded live to tape over a single week of sessions in January---which was whittled down to 14 make The Cardinals' 2nd album of 2005, Jacksonville City Nights

Originally titled September with 15-song alternate tracklist including "What Sin Replaces Love" and an alternate full-band version of its title track. Recorded over 1 week at Loho Studios in NYC by Tom Schick. Additional songs recorded at Sear Sound (NY) include "Until Then (acoustic)", "Petal in a Rainstorm", "Your Love is an Impossible Dream", "Sad What We Do to Feel Love", "Brooklyn" (Jesse Malin cover) and others not currently circulating. 

Ryan Adams and The Cardinals

SEPTEMBER  [JCN Sessions]

1. The End
2. Shadows  (possibly re-recorded for Haywire)
3. We're Doomed**
4. Where Dreams Go to Die**
5. Liar's Eve**
6. The Howling**  (later re-recorded for original CHRIS 2018 sessions)
7. Peaceful Valley 
8. Dust and Alcohol**
9. Rosewood Cemetery
10. Songs**  (later re-recorded for Let It B-Minus)
11. Trains
12. Hard Way to Fall  (previously recorded for Saturday Night Fever Blister and Love is Hell)
13. When That Wild Wind Calls** (a.k.a. "When the Wild Wind Blows"--re-recorded for Darkbreaker)
14. Like the Lies She Tells to Me**    (previously recorded as demo for Heartbreaker)
15. Pa  (previously recorded for Heartbreaker)
16. Already Going and Gone**
17. Give Up?**  (possibly "Blue Hotel")
18. On My Way to Jacksonville**
19. Don't Fail Me Now (previously recorded for Heartbreaker)
20. Silver Bullets
21. A Kiss Before I Go
22. Dear John  (duet w/ Norah Jones)
23. September  
24. My Heart is Broken  (previously recorded with Whiskeytown)
25. Games
26. Withering Heights

Ryan Adams and The Cardinals

SEAR SOUND / JCN B-Sides and Outtakes  

1. Your Love Is An Impossible Dream*   [Sear Sound sessions]
2. Petal in a Rainstorm*  (f.k.a. "Oh My Sweet Valentine")
3. Until Then  (acoustic)*  (later re-recorded for Let It B-Minus)
4. Sad What We Do To Feel Love*   (a.k.a. "One Hit from the Floor")
5. Brooklyn*  (Jesse Malin cover)
6. What Sin Replaces Love+   ['September' pre-release promo]
7. Jeane+  (previously recorded for Love is Hell)    ["Easy Plateau" single]
8. Diamond of Hearts** 
9. My Love For You**  (a.k.a. "My Love For You is Real" with diff lyrics)
10. Jim** 
11. Already Going and Gone**   (album outtake)
12. September (alternate version)+      [JCN Rhapsody bonus track]
13. The Hardest Part+    [Jacksonville City Nights]
14. I Still Miss Someone+   (Johnny Cash cover / previously recorded with Whiskeytown)
15. Always on My Mind+  (Willie Nelson cover / featuring Norah Jones; Bob Hoffnar)
16. A Kiss Before I Go  (Demonstration Version)+ 
17. Games  (Demonstration Version)**
18. Peaceful Valley  (Demonstration Version)**
19. What Sin Replaces Love  (Demonstration Version)+

This is the latest new find on YouTube of missing Ryan music. Recorded sometime in early 2005 at Sear Sound in NYC (solo and also with The Cardinals). "Until Then" appears as an electric version on the Sad Dracula digital LP release, Let It B-Minus, in late 2006. Those songs are believed to be recorded during mixing sessions for JCN at Sear Sound Studio (NY) in early 2005. Stay tuned for more updates!

Produced and Engineered by Tom Schick. Recorded at Sunset Sound Factory, Los Angeles and Electric Lady Studios in New York City (with The Cardinals and string section). Ryan plays all instruments on the first session. In 2007, RA mentioned including the solo tracks on the (now scrapped) 20:20 boxset as 'Darkbreaker' (a title that seems to be a lighthearted dig at singer Beth Orton's 2002 LP, 'Daybreaker'). All songs believed to be recorded have leaked in unmastered rough mix form. Probably another album we'll never see get a proper release.

Ryan Adams 

DARKBREAKER  (2005)

• Don't Get Sentimental on Me*
• Two*  (re-recorded with The Cardinals for Easy Tiger)
• Everyone Knows   (re-recorded with The Cardinals as "Everybody Knows")
• When the Wild Wind Blows  (previously recorded with The Cardinals for JCN)
• Clementine  (f.k.a. "Madeline")    (previously recorded for The Stockholm Sessions)
• Dreams of the Working Class+     [Ryan Adams and The Cardinals, 2023 digital single]
• Willows
• Actors on Actors+    [Let It B-Minus, Sad Dracula]
• Maps   (re-recorded as "Take 'Em to the Stars and Back" for War and Peace)
• Cemetery Hill+  (remixed and overdubbed for War and Peace and III/IV)
• Lighthouses*    (re-recorded for War and Peace)
• Everything Dies*
• Saturday Night*   (different song than Pinkhearts 2001 demo)
• Who Were We?   (remixed and overdubbed for War and Peace)
• Lions of Broadway  (a.k.a  "Steve Miller and Weed")*   (re-recorded for Let It B-Minus)
• Elizabeth, You Were Born to Play That Part*   (previously recorded for 29)
• The Sewers at the Bottom of the Wishing Well    (re-recorded with The Cardinals for III/IV)
• Words   [Elizabethtown, vol. 2: Songs For the Ride Home digital E.P.]
• Destroy Yourself+   [Let It B-Minus, Sad Dracula]
• Elizabethtown*
• Two Hearts (acoustic)   (re-recorded with The Cardinals for Easy Tiger)

All songs unreleased except where otherwise noted.

* = songs in bold recorded with The Cardinals  (rejected by DRA for release).

"It was two separate sessions. Only the stuff with strings on it was recorded later. The first session was in the same room as GOLD ( sunset sound factory ) and I recorded it by myself with Tom Schick engineering and working the API in that little room. What a great sound. The rest of the stuff like Everything Dies and the slow stuff was after the Japan show disaster ( so many disasters to keep up with LOL ) and we were all so tired... But that was full on Cardinals with Cat, JP and Graboff--but they are not on Cemetery Hill and the Who Were We ( my fav from this ) and all that. They are only on the live sounding tracks. The song "Elizabethtown" which is fucking horrid, was just the tape rolling with me trying to write a song for the move. What is really sad about the entire session is that it was meant to be a session where I wrote an "uplifting" song for Cameron. Ha. This depressive brain muck is all I could muster. I was in a rather druggy state, imagine that, and I was just spinning out by the second session. I was ok on the first but the second was a disaster and you can really hear it. What a sad life it was. Once in awhile some asshole somewhere will say something like " He was so much better when he was on drugs, etc. blah blah" but really how I look at it is, I was always able to rise above whatever was going on and find some joy and make some music I loved. Thank goodness some things never change. Even if that means I have to be making some music that isn't for everyone.

I'll put this out one day as it was meant to be hopefully sans those awful end of the night tracks."  

Ryan Adams / Phil Lesh

April 2006 session

• 21ST CENTURY WARS (instrumental) ?
• ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT ?   (remixed and overdubbed for III/IV)
• TIME MACHINE ?
• NOBODY LISTENS TO SILENCE ?  (re-recorded during Easy Tiger sessions)
• TO PHIL, LOVE RYAN ?
• ??

Taken from the Warren Peace digital release, 'WAR AND PEACE'  (2006)

MORE INFO CAN BE FOUND HERE

Proposed solo 2xLP with around 35 songs recorded (mostly) with RA on everything between Feb and Apr 2006. Includes new versions of older songs like "Free Dreams" (a.k.a. "I'm Alright Today"), "Take 'Em to the Stars and Back" (a.k.a. "Maps"), "A Wish" (a.k.a. "Baby, I'm A Fool For You"), "Sweet Dreams" (a.k.a. "4th of July"), "Lighthouses" and "Who Were We?" Rumored versions of "Don't Get Sentimental on Me" and "Everything Dies" are said to have been recorded, as well. Outtakes include "On Fire", "Sewers at the Bottom of the Wishing Well",  "Valhalla" and others found on the Warren Peace and Sad Dracula digital releases.

All other songs were re-recorded for The Cardinals' sessions for III/IV and Easy Tiger later that same year. Songs not in bold have either been released or leaked in some form.

Ryan Adams

WAR AND PEACE  (2006)

1. No
2. Destroyers+      [III / IV  bonus disc]
3. Icebreaker     
4. Happy Birthday   
5. Numbers   
6. Dear Diary+   (a.k.a "My Reflection")      [III / IV  bonus disc]
7. Rock Dust*
8. Death and Rats   
9. Eviction Notice*  (a.k.a "Be Careful")   [Let It B-Minus by Sad Dracula digital LP]
10. Take 'Em to the Stars and Back*     (a.k.a "Star Maps" / later re-recorded for Wednesdays)
11. (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Ghost   [III / IV  bonus disc]
12. Game Over*  (previously recorded with diff lyrics as "Interstellar Collider")
13. A Wish*   (f.k.a "Baby, I'm a Fool For You")    
14. Kisses Start Wars  
15. Get Used To It  (a.k.a "Users"; "Sunlight Shaker")    
16. Free Dreams*   (f.k.a "I'm Alright Today")
17. Lighthouses*   (previously recorded for Darkbreaker)
18. Movie Stars Hurt+   [War and Peace by Warren Peace digital E.P.]
19. Who Were We?*   (previously recorded for Darkbreaker)
20. Cemetery Hill   (previously recorded for Darkbreaker / longer version appears on III/IV bonus disc)
21. If You Wait+  (a.k.a "F U Wait")   [Fasterpiece by Sad Dracula digital LP]
22. Sweet Dreams (a.k.a. "4th of July"; "Liar Machine" / later re-recorded with diff lyrics for Wednesdays)    
23. Kill the Lights    
24. Crossing Over Foggy Mountains+   [Orion bonus 7-inch]
25. Megawizard+     [Feel the Lazer by Werewolph digital LP]

21st CENTURY WARS / FIRE AND ICE / ULTRA VIOLET LIGHT-TIME MACHINE / MOVIE STARS HURT / CEMETERY HILL / DEAR DIARY / NOBODY LISTENS TO SILENCE / TO PHIL - LOVE RYAN / VALHALLA / ROCK DUST / TEMPORARY VAMPIRES / EVICTION NOTICE / PEOPLE MAKE MISTAKES / EVERYTHING DIES / DESTROYERS / HAPPY BIRTHDAY / TAKE 'EM TO THE STARS AND BACK! / (You Make Me Feel Like A) NATURAL GHOST / GAME OVER / A WISH / FREE DREAMS / LIGHTHOUSES / WHO WERE WE? / IF YOU WAIT / ON FIRE / SWEET DREAMS / DON'T GET SENTIMENTAL ON ME

ORION 
Recorded with Jamie C. at ELS, circa 2006 

Ryan Adams and The Cardinals

CANDY  ['Star Wars' demos]

1. F-U WAIT     [War and Peace]
2. BREAKDOWN INTO THE RESOLVE
3. LOVELY AND BLUE
4. IN DEFENSE (aka "Eviction Notice / Be Careful")  [W & P]
5. WASTELAND
6. GET USED TO IT  (a.k.a. "Users")   (previously recorded for W & P)
7. I WAS NEVER HERE*  (re-recorded with diff lyrics as "Dear Candy")
8. P.S.
9. STAR WARS
10. TWO HEARTS+  (previously recorded for Darkbreaker)    [Feb 18, 2007 Mixes]
11. OFF BROADWAY+  (previously recorded for Career Suicide and Gold)
12. MY FAVORITE SONG
13. JESSICA*  (possibly the same song re-recorded in 2008)
14. EVERYBODY KNOWS+  (previously recorded for Darkbreaker)
15. TWO+  (previously recorded for Darkbreaker)    [Feb 18, 2007 Mixes]
16. WHO WERE WE? (previously recorded for Darkbreaker)   [War and Peace]

-----------------------------------

Songs in bold appear in final form on  III/IV / * = non-circulating mix / + = re-recorded for Easy Tiger 

Thank you to a member* of the Ryan Adams Superfans FB page for sharing this info (the inlay of the III/IV vinyl has this tracklist for an album of Cardinals 2006 demos) 

***I don't know if you want the credit, but I'll be glad to mention it***

Found on Discogs (believed to contain the 'Rock' versions of "Two" and "Two Hearts").

RYAN ADAMS 

Easy Tiger  (2007)

• Goodnight Rose  
• People Make Mistakes*  (a.k.a. "Listen to the Radio")   
• Two
• Everybody Knows
• Black Myrtle*    [February 19, 2007 mixes]
• Lonely is As Lonely Does*    [February 19, 2007 mixes]
• Tears of Gold
  
• The Sun Also Sets
• Oh My God, Whatever, Etc. 
• Pearls on A String
• Rip Off
• I Taught Myself How to Grow Old
• Nobody Listens to Silence+  (bonus track)
• Alice+   (bonus track)

16 tracks that were assembled on a disc by producer Jamie Candiloro in late Sept. 2006. This was "essentially what would become ET," (quote from an interview done in Sept. 2010). It's rumored Ryan played bass on several tracks following Cat Popper's departure sometime in August 2006. Chris Feinstein would replace her in the band and perform his first show with the group the next month.

Instead of a potential 7xLP box set: 01 COMMERCIAL SUICIDE (2007) / 02 48 HOURS  (2001) /
 03 PINKHEARTS + SAT. NIGHT FEVER BLISTER (2002) / 04 DARKBREAKER (2005) / 05 BLACKHOLE  (2006) / 
06 DEMOLITIOUS (4-track demos 2000-05) / 07 LET IT B-MINUS + FASTERPIECE  (2006)  

We didn't even get Lost Highway's supposed retrospective, either. WTF?

Ryan Adams

20:20   [proposed 2007 Box-Set]

• Perfect and True 
• Tell it To My Heart
• Follow the Lights+   [Follow the Lights]
• Pretender
• Famous Eyes
• For No One
• You Don't Know Me
• Bow to the Sad Lady
• Off Broadway+    [Easy Tiger]
• Cracks in a Photograph
• I'm Waiting
• Just Like A Whore+   [Q Division Demos]
• Miss Sunflower
• Fix It (piano)   (rumored early version) ??
• My Love For You is Real+   [Follow the Lights]
• My California Love
• 24/7+    [Rat Classics, vol. 2]
• Fool's Gold
• Walls
• Angelina
• Like the Twilight
• Hey There, Mrs. Lovely
• Born Yesterday
• One For the Rose
• Karina
• Ghost
• Little Moon
• Interstellar Collider
• Win
• Red, Red, Red, Red Wine
• Down at the Movies
• Blue and Shy
• Mega-Superior Gold
• Young Winds
• I Don't Wanna Work
• Saturday Night
• HARD WAY TO FALL (Fan Club Version)*  
• SISTER, SISTER (Baby Treat Me Right)**
• CANDY DOLL
• CHARMED
• ON FIRE    [Fasterpiece, Sad Dracula]
• SUSPICION   
• SWEET DREAMS*   [War and Peace]
• A WISH*    [War and Peace]
• FREE DREAMS*    [War and Peace]
• GAME OVER*    [War and Peace]

Tracks 1-16 ** re-recorded versions with a string section (parts arranged by RA), bass (probably played by him), and drums by Brad Pemberton during Easy Tiger sessions. Tracks 43-46 recorded by RA solo (on everything) appears on Pinkhearts disc. 

(See entries for other albums)

1. TWO HEARTS (Rock Version)*   [Feb. 18. 2007 Mixes ref. disc]
2. PEOPLE MAKE MISTAKES
3. THE SONGS
4. TEMPORARY VAMPIRES
5. STEVE MILLER & WEED  (version II)
6. I WAS NEVER THERE
7. BE CAREFUL
8. DESTROY YOURSELF
9. 4TH OF JULY
10. SOUNDS GOOD TO ME  (a.k.a. "F.U. Wait")    
11. UNTIL THEN
12. TWO (Rock Version)*   [Feb. 18. 2007 Mixes]
13. HEAVEN
14. ROLLIN' WITH THE PUNCHES
15. CALIFORNIA GASOLINE
16. S.O.S.  (Blackhole demo)
17. SARAH  (Blackhole demo)
18. LOST AND FOUND  (Blackhole outtake)
19. IT ENDS THE WAY IT STARTED  (Blackhole outtake)
20. CLOSURE
21. STARFIRE  (Blackhole demo)
22. WAITING FOR THE SUN  (Blackhole demo)
23. OBLIVION  (Blackhole outtake)
24. THE SEWERS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE WISHING WELL  (ver. II)

FASTERPIECE

Re: 48 Hours, 20/20 boxset etc. Ryan has said that it will pretty much never happen
STEREOGUM: What about that box set of the various unreleased albums, is that still going to happen?

ADAMS: I don’t understand what people don’t get about that. It mystifies me. People go, “Whatever happened to the 20/20 boxset?” I always want to go like, what are you fucking talking about?

STEREOGUM: Well, it’s been rumored on and off for years.

ADAMS: Yeah, like in 2003 or ’04 or something. I talked about it then. Trying to release unreleased records. But those records are common knowledge now. Like, “When are you going to release The Suicide Handbook?” When people call it that I’m like, “Why do you call it that?” It was actually originally called Commercial Suicide. It wasn’t called The Suicide Handbook because the record I wanted to release was just a double record of acoustic performances and string sections. The version that leaked, they don’t have the strings on it. It’s so known. The toothpaste left the tube so long ago, I’m not going to try to put it into a new toothpaste container. Why would I do that? [laughs] And also I can’t release anything that’s been previously released. I own all my unreleased masters. And then Universal, before I left, if it came out, they owned that. So that means a couple of songs from Commercial Suicide Handbook that were on Demolition make it an incomplete record, and then there was a record I did with Ethan at the end of Gold, it wasn’t really a record, it was just a session. We called it 48 Hours because we made it in 48 hours. And like … the reason it leaked is because my record label would put Lost Highway stickers on it and send it to people.
What I would find is that I would go and make the sessions and before [the songs] had any chance to be considered for anything, they were being shared. Not by me. I didn’t even have a fucking computer then. You can actually find copies still but they’re on eBay. They’ll say “48 Hours Sessions, Lost Highway Records” with a white label. So what eventually happened was twofold. By sharing them to the point where they were getting bootlegged so commonly, it destroyed the value of anything they could’ve ever been. And also the ones they decided to release on Demolition, by making a compilation of all the demos — which was not my idea and not something I wanted to do — they basically interrupted my ability to ever later claim ownership of those records and try to sell them that way.
But you know, I started PAX-AM, and so far we’ve done 7-inches of older stuff. I released the complete sessions around Easy Tiger as III/IV. Originally that record was going to be more rock and have some of those acoustic songs interlaced into the record. The record became what it became out of necessity and those tracks fell by the wayside and I wanted to release that. I’ve made so much music since that people don’t know about. Black Hole record, no one’s heard that. Which is awesome. I made this fucking sick record in New York right at the end of my contract with Lost Highway. I went to Electric Lady with my friend Johnny and made this big sprawling session, and I’ve released only a couple of little things on it, but it gave way to things like “Do I Wait” from Ashes & Fire. I did a Record Store Day single with that, a song called “The Darkness.” That session is so shit hot and I love it. I’ll probably put that out at some point. There’s a couple of other things, but they’re more recent.

I make music, I’m in the moment, I still play live. It would be the worst, possible, most ignorant idea ever and it would be stupid to go, “Hey you guys, I’m going to release this box set of shit you already have online that you’ve listened to forever, except it’ll be incomplete. Because some of these tracks are already on Lost Highway records and if that version exists you can’t have it. So I’ll sell you something you already have, but the incomplete version.” I mean, maybe at this point I could call it 14/9 or something, because the vision would be really impaired. It wouldn’t even be “hindsight is 20/20,” it’d have to be a decimal point and a couple of random numbers. That’s never going to happen, ever, nor should it ever happen, and nor do I think anyone, if they really thought it through, would really want to own it, or would think it would ever be a viable thing. It can’t. It cannot exist. But there’s still my very first four-track recordings up to like, 2005, when I still used cassette four-tracks. I assembled all of them in one place. I found that stuff. I found a shit ton of stuff around the Heartbreaker sessions, all this great stuff. I’m so stoked about that. - DRA interview

CARDINOLOGY  (2008)
40 songs recorded at ELS with Tom Schick engineering, once again. Sessions are believed to have been around Dec. 2007. Visit the link below for my alternate version of this album. I just add "In the Meadow" to that and call it a day. I don't really like this album (it's okay, I guess). 20/20 and Lost Highway's planned retrospective (with unreleased songs) were both scrapped for this. Contractual obligation!
See 'CLASS MYTHOLOGY'

Ryan recorded many demos between ET and Cardinology and after that. I'm not a big fan of this work. However, there's playlists of it on graciousfew's YouTube (and elsewhere). Ryan shared many of these songs on his FOGGY blog posts in 2008. One song in particular is "JESSICA" (written for ex-girlfriend Jessica Joffe). I included this one on my alt. mix of Cardinology. You can read more about some of the plans he might have had for some of these songs like "NANCY" (a fave of mine--I don't hate them...just like other stuff more), at the link from MEGASUPERIORGOLD's page.

Demos and live recordings were included as bonus material; as well as a tracklist for an early mix of the album (as an insert with the vinyl release).

Outtakes were previously released as part of the 2006 digital LP, 'LET IT B-MINUS' (released for free download under the name, Sad DRAcula). 

Ryan Adams and The Cardinals

III / IV  (2010)

BREAKDOWN / RESOLVE    

DEAR CANDY

WASTELAND

TEMPLES OF GOD+    [Ratt Classics 2]

STOP PLAYING WITH MY HEART

LOVELY AND BLUE

PARTY CLOWN+   [Ratt Classics 2]

KISSES START WARS

JULIETTE*    

GET USED TO IT  (a.k.a. "Users")

-----------

NO

NUMBERS

ICEBREAKER

ROACH HEAVEN*   

HALLOWEENHEAD+    [Easy Tiger]

ANYTHING BUT NO*    

STAR WARS

MY FAVORITE SONG

P.S.

DEATH AND RATS

KILL THE LIGHTS

-- All songs in bold taken from COLOR BARS (2006 reference disc)

Ryan Adams and Johnny T. worked more on polishing up Blackhole with Jamie C. to release on Ryan's new record label, Pax-Am Recordings in 2009.

Recorded between late Dec. - Feb. 2006 at ELS. The full session at Mercy Sound (NYC)---said to be made over the X-Mas holidays in Dec. 2005 ---is not circulating. "Oblivion", "Lost and Found", "S.O.S", "Waiting For the Sun" and the Fasterpiece tracks (released online as Sad DRAcula in late 2006) are believed to be from here. RA went back into ELS and re-cut vocals for "Lost and Found" and several other unfinished sounding tracks from the original sessions in 2009.

A compilation of sessions produced by Jamie C., Tom Schick, and Glyn Johns.
 I don't know when "I Keep Running" was recorded but it seems to fit, anyway. I named this after a collection of demos RA recorded with Noah Goldstein engineering at ELS in 2009.

Ryan Adams

DEAR IMPOSSIBLE  (2011)

So Lost+    [Star Sign]

Do I Wait?     [Do I Wait / Darkness]

Lucky Now+     [Ashes & Fire]

Empty Room     [Empty Room / Nutshell]

I Keep Running    [Jacksonville]

Come Home    [Star Sign / Come Home]

Invisible Riverside     [Ashes & Fire]

'Til I Found You    [A&F  bonus track*]

Star Sign   [Star Sign / Come Home]

Darkness+    [Star Sign]

I Love You, But I Don't Know What to Say+    [Ashes & Fire]

FOLLOW LINK TO MEGASUPERIORGOLD FOR MORE INFO:

 DEAR IMPOSSIBLE was actually a collection of songs written for the next Cardinals album that Ryan ended up scrapping.

Ryan in the studio with Glyn Johns

In 2013, DRA said he spent $100,000 or so on the scrapped 2nd album with Glyn Johns producing. "How Much Light", "This is Where We Meet in My Mind", and an early version of "Kim" are confirmed. The studio versions of full-band takes (featuring Don Was; Cindy Cashdollar; Jeremy Stacey; Benmont Tench) of "How Much Light", "I Do Not Feel Like Being Good" and "Too Bored to Run" are not circulating. Ryan performed the title track live on his IG feeds sometime in 2021. No studio version has been found, yet. In 2023, he streamed "In the Shadows" among several unreleased projects teased for future release on LP.

I added "Dirty Rain" and "Chris"; as well as "Tomorrow Never Comes"  and "Speeding Car" from Star Sign.

Ryan Adams

HAYWIRE [Glyn Johns sessions / PAX-AM demos]  

1. Jacksonville+    ["Jacksonville" 7-inch]
2. Crooked Shake    [CHRIS]
3. Kim**     [2022 YouTube leak]
4. Tomorrow Never Comes+   [Star Sign]
5. Dirty Rain+   [Ashes & Fire]
6. Rocks+    [Ashes & Fire]
7. In the Shadows  
8. Speeding Car+   [Star Sign]
9. This is Where We Meet in My Mind*    [a.k.a "I Do Not Feel Like Being Good" 7-inch]
10. How Much Light*    ["I Do Not Feel Like Being Good" 7-inch]
11. Shining Through the Dark    [Star Sign]
12. Chris+   [CHRIS]

Ryan Adams

RYAN ADAMS   (2014)

1. Gimme Something Good
2. Aching For More*     ["Gimme Something Good" 7-inch]
3. Trouble
4. Am I Safe
5. My Wrecking Ball
6. Stay With Me
7. Shadows
8. Do You Laugh When You Lie?*    ["Do You Laugh When You Lie" 7-inch]
9. Feels Like Fire
10. I Just Might
11. Tired of Giving Up
12. Let Go

Sept 2013 songlist for The Shining's unreleased 2xLP, 'ALIEN USA'. Most of these songs were later released as part of the 2022 albums, Chris and Devolver.

"No Shadow" features lead guitar work by Johnny Depp. "Cop City" was recorded with The Shining for their unreleased 'Alien USA' 2xLP. "Petal in a Rainstorm" (a.k.a "Oh My Sweet Valentine") was re-recorded around the same time as 'Ashes & Fire'.

Ryan Adams

LET IT B-MINUS: Pax-Am 7" Series   (2015)

1. I Lost My Fucking Mind     ["Blue Light" 7-inch]
2. Blue Light
3. No Shadow
4. It's in My Head     ["No Shadow" 7-inch]
5. In the Dark      ["I Do Not Feel Like Being Good" 7-inch]
6. Look in the Mirror    [1984 digital bonus track]
7. By the Way  ["Do You Laugh When You Lie?" 7-inch]
8. Petal in a Rainstorm*    [A & F bonus flexi-disc]
9. Yes or Run    ["Willow Lane" 7-inch]
10. Suburbia     [Vampires 7-inch E.P.]
11. Cop City   ["No Shadow" 7-inch]
12. Vampires  
13. My Blue Manhattan+    [Love is Hell]

Sometimes that LA sun burns right into your soul and deadens it in the most fantastic way. The night is hot and dehydrating. It doesn’t ever last long enough and everything is so over-illuminated that you forget what the fog is. Until once or a twice or year. Round midnight. Then you remember where you are. A summertime land where just around the corner things like weather and madness ride the seasons like seeds on the wind.

Sometimes we crawl into PaxAm and there really is nothing left to do. Nobody is stuck. Electricity and instruments. Low light. Orange Light. There are no notes waiting to be transcribed into songs- there are not half-written jams to try and figure out what is what… there is just riff optimism and whatever a person couldn’t shake when they went to take out the trash that morning. Maybe something you overheard a couple arguing about across the wooden aisles of the Soul records section at Amoeba… you find the guitar in your hand faster than you would care to if it was how you explained all that to yourself. I am that guy. My pals seem to be that too. If we were into sports we would be the kind of person who wears a “newly laundered” jersey to a nice dinner. That sort of thing.

This session is a bit of that up there but also some songs that were and still are part of this tear -- this, like, “I am living in the 80’s but not in a collective way” tear I am on, musically maybe… like in a way where musically and emotionally I let myself go into some soundspace…an imagined reality of not trying to be good at anything with an 80’s feel… but just a free place… a place to be loose in a way where you aren’t trying to change the world. I don’t want to change the world. I just want to tell you a story. Usually about how I feel.

That 80’s sound.. what is that with me... it never realizes itself in a full record- well maybe Love Is Hell but really not even Love is Hell could handle a whole record of that- it steers into other things plenty, stylistically -- but that sound is REAL with me and I am ALWAYS able to tell a better story that way. Or usually. Or never. It depends who you ask. But that STYLE, man… as musicians, we can all act a hell of a lot more like a cowboy if someone puts us on the ranch and gives us some horse to ride into some sunset… Juno synths and my electric guitar pushed with delay just sort of creates the cowboy. The cowboy that just got out of seeing Back to the Future. Again. You see.. it’s best to strip it away like that- back to an acoustic guitar and a Linn Drum beat- there’s a safety to how open and raw it is. I forget where I am and I tell a new story. As a songwriter that is a requirement from time to time. So there’s that here. On My Life, by the way, is a survivor from the bizarre, necessary and life-changing-in-the-best-way Alien USA  sessions.

Blue Light…This tune was a guitar bass idea I had and I could NOT stop this. It all went down in an hour- band playing live to tape. Musically, this is such a cousin to “The Door” from Blackhole ( One day you will understand what that means- think Love is Hell/ More Mats ) Lyrically -- that bleakness...I had this vision of New York city this guy in a busted pair of glasses walking between subway cars…people texting each other glued to their information machines. I fucking know I get lost in that shit. Our faces "are like ghosts”, my friend Paul Cutler said “ when they are underlit by their phones”. Like we all become Bela Legosi lit -- but uncool. No cape. No Dracula. Pretty sure I borrowed Jeremy Stacey from the Benmont Tench session when we recorded this. Like he literally was on that session but I think he was next door with Glyn Johns while they were doing some overdubs. Lucky lucky. This was before PaxAm had the weird cat-print baffles. We had to work the ribbon mics extra hard and there was a lot of bleed but it worked.

On My Life… well -- that’s a portrait of me maybe back in the early 2000’s on 2nd Avenue and A, having lived in a hotel that was once a children’s hospital for basically children with polio (ugh). I am CERTAIN it was haunted but by a sadness really that I cannot explain. Chris Farley died in that building. It has a heaviness that could swallow you. Windows too big to every fully close. Just the worst. Had some fun there though, those were the days that weren’t New York was alive and crazy with that buzz of the Stokes and the easy village in general was basically frozen in time from godknowswhat every single day … It’s fun while you break it. But then you break it.

I Lost My Mind is me on everything I think- a riff from a batch of good ones… the basic guitar part had been a riff for a long time that I was carving out on my Stratocaster, the old one, every time I picked up the guitar and I just decided to unleash some Cure vibes in the studio one night… Well it turns out CREED ain’t the only band me and Charlie have in common from back in the day… we also have The Cure ( esp Disintegration )… Guess that was both out real high school shit I (among other actual record store snob respected bands… don't get me started, people ) also that’s the one and only Daniel Clarke of Richmond fucking Virginia playing me out, like the cosmic Keyboard cat that he is on this tune. I think he had to literally mail the part to us. Remember the fucking mail? Woah! Mike is on here- Charlie is on here… There’s nothing but 7-11 grease on this one, ladies and gentlemen. Shined up with the funk. Maybe a little dash of the creeps on the side too. We over-season to taste and then paint-strip the thing. That’s why you build a studio. To go deep.

ALL Studer 24-Track, ALL 2 inch tape- ALL pretty much on robots they made that only used to do ONE THING AT A TIME…. get that low harmonic sonic blast of actual bass frequencies on you. Bound to make ya smile a real one : )"

Peace and Love…
Beast-mode
DRA March 5 2015- From the Emerald Isle

Originally a self-titled (?) 2xLP with 23-songs. 25 songs recorded for beginning of Prisoner sessions in 2015. Outtakes include "Stay", "You Don't Love Me", "I'll Wait", etc. 'It's as Heartbreaker as it gets' - DRA, 2016 interview. In March 2022, many tracks leftover from the sessions were released as part of the double album, Chris.

Ryan Adams

PRISONER   (2016)   

1. Prisoner
2. Do You Still Love Me?
3. Doomsday
4. Haunted House
5. Shiver and Shake
6. To Be Without You
7. Anything I Say to You Now
8. Breakdown
9. Outbound Train
10. Broken Anyway
11. Tightrope
12. We Disappear
13. I'll Wait+     [Sword and Stone] 
14. Spinning Wheel
15. Dive
16. Moving Target
17. Still A Cage     
18. Stay Alive+    [Star Sign] 
19. About Time    
20. Replaced
21. I Got Lost
22. Say What You Said
23. Letting the Light In

"Stay Alive" and "I'll Wait" were streamed on RA's IG in early 2023.
They were mentioned to be part of a new album of outtakes titled Star Sign.

Recorded on through to the summer of 2016. Around 80 songs in total recorded. Outtakes include "So Helpless", "Take It Back", etc. "I don't think I've ever worked on anything harder than i have on this. I'm still working on it... in fact when I leave here i go straight over to work on it more. I think its probably the most songs I've ever written for a record and its the most emotional... All the different emotions a person can have i think went into making it, and its been really amazing... whatever this process was was so cathartic, and cathartic in a way where i actually made songs that I listened back to and would go 'that is really messed up' or listen to something and go 'there's actual hope in there, what does that mean?'. I really let the process become part of me this time...I feel like whatever I'm making bookends so much of what I've gone through and experienced in the last couple of years, and trying to find a way to serve myself and serve people and serve the record in a way where its not some sort of cautionary tale or some kind of thing made of darkness. I found a way to become optimistic and to find ways of writing that can be helpful to myself. That's been a huge challenge...."

Ryan Adams

PRISONER 2/3   (2017)

1. Where Will You Run
2. Juli
3. Are You Home?
4. No Words
5. Halo
6. It Will Never Be the Same
7. What If We're Wrong
8. Broken Things
9. Stop You
10. Hanging on To Hope
11. Let it Burn
12. Crazy Now
13. You Said
14. Please Help Me
15. Too Tired to Cry
16. Stop Talking
17. The Empty Bed
18. Lookout   [Chris]
19. The Cold
20. Take It Back+   [Chris]
21. So Helpless+   [Chris]
22. Was I Wrong?+   [Chris]
23. I Am Alone+   [Devolver]

All songs taken from Prisoner B-Sides except where indicated.

 Taken from an Instagram post Ryan posted; he has been recording this time round with guitarist Tod Wisenbaker, drummer Aaron Ficca, bassist/engineer Charlie Stavish and keyboardist T’Ben “Mahoney” Alleman in March 2018---the 11 or 17 songs we refer to as L.A. RAIN).
On the songs below from BC & Wednesdays-- Tod and Stavish are playing with Aaron. In the summer of 2022, several tracks were released as part of the double album, Romeo & Juliet and its follow-up, FM. "Mercy" and "Sword and Stone" were released on an album in 2024.

Ryan Adams

L.A. RAIN MUSIC  (2018)

• Birmingham*
• Sword and Stone+   [Sword and Stone]
• Manchester+       [BIG COLORS]
• I Surrender+   [BIG COLORS]                    
• Middle of the Line+        [BIG COLORS]
• So Quiet, It's Loud*  
• When You Cross Over*
• Fairweather   [FM]
• Red and Orange Special+    [Wednesdays extended LP]
• Like a Heatwave+   [Wednesdays extended LP]
• Mercy+   [Sword and Stone]
• Running Out of Time*
• I Want You   [FM]
• L.A. Rain    [Romeo & Juliet]
• Hall of Shame  [FM]
• Wild & Hopeless  [FM]
• Someday   [FM]

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"Are We Running Out of Time" was an untitled demo streamed on Instagram in early 2018. A sampler with early mixes of songs that later appeared on FM and Sword and Stone were leaked around the same time (click link below).

L.A. Rain Music (2018) scrapped LP sampler

'The Summer of 69 Demos' (48 songs recorded in July; includes 2021-23 album tracks)  43 tracks with songs from BC and Wednesdays plus non-circulating outtakes; "As a Light"; "Question Mark"; "Kick Me"; "Mirage"; "So Shattered"; "Take the Money"; "Kissing Blue Flowers"; "Pray For My Soul"; "Missing Pieces"; "Closer"; "I Forgot to Be What I Was"; "In Your Arms"; "Too Much Morning"; "Father"; "The Howling"; "Star Maps" (f.k.a. 'Maps'); "Bars"; others ?)

Includes the 2019 digital single, "Fuck the Rain"--as well as two songs RA sent to radio stations in Manchester, London and Doylestown, PA--respectively. The original 15-track LP was shelved ahead of its intended release date (19.04.2019).
In July 2021, the album was belatedly released through Music Empire with new artwork (and minus 3 songs).
 Extended LP version includes the bonus 7-inch, "Anybody Evil" b/w "Opposite of Love"

RYAN ADAMS 

Big Colors  (2019)

• Big Colors
• Do Not Disturb
• It's So Quiet, It's Loud
• Fuck The Rain
• Doylestown Girl*   [Romeo & Juliet]
• Dreaming You Backwards*   [Wednesdays]
• I Surrender
• What Am I
• Power
• Showtime
• In It For The Pleasure
• Middle Of The Line
• I'm Sorry And I Love You*  [Wednesdays]
• Manchester
• Summer Rain

The cover of the June 11, 2021
CD / extended LP release

Originally intended as the follow-up to PRISONER (after scrapping 'L.A. RAIN MUSIC'). 
Twenty-one new songs were considered from a list shared on DRA's social media; including "Big Colors"; "The Howling"; "What Am I"; "Liar Machine" (a.k.a. '4th of July'); "Power"; "Mamma" (a.k.a. 'Woman'); "Things Are Losing Meaning"; "Do Not Disturb"; "Math Maze", etc. By 2019; the album now had 17 tracks (and a 'theme', now I guess--though "I Love You and I'm Sorry" as well as "Dreaming You Backwards" were 'dropped'). The reason? Welp, to paraphrase a quote from DRA in early 2021(?)--'they thought I should put the most commercial songs on the first release of the trilogy'--(which was to be BIG COLORS on 19 April 2019). The album was belatedly released in Dec. 2020 with eleven tracks (including the two prior mentioned songs); along with different cover art. The CD version and the extended LP variants were released on 19.03.2021 (each with an exclusive bonus 7-inch). In late Jan. 2023, "Take Me Home" was streamed on Ryan's IG. "Magic Trick" is currently not circulating.

RYAN ADAMS 

WEDNESDAYS  (2020)

1. Walk in the Dark 
2. Who Is Gonna Love Me Now, If Not You
3. So Anyways
4. Wednesdays
5. Lost in Time
6. It’s Not That Kind of Night*
7. Somewhere It Is Spring*
8. Poison & the Pain
9. Nobody Wins+  (possibly "Anything")     [Romeo & Juliet] 
10. Mamma
11. When You Cross Over
12. Birmingham
13. Like a Heatwave*
14. Red & Orange Special*
15. Magic Trick**
16. Pennsylvania Moon+  (possibly "My Heaven")   [Romeo & Juliet]
17. Take Me Home*

Ryan Adams

Dreaming You Backwards  E.P.   (2021)

• Dreaming You Backwards  (alt. gtr solo mix)     [Wednesdays *UK digital LP]
• Pacific Line*
• Sunflowers    [Wednesdays extended LP bonus 7-inch]
• Doylestown Girl     [Romeo & Juliet]
• My Way*   
• The Worst*    [Exile on Meryl Streep* - rehearsal for Exile on Bourbon St. concert in 2018]

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All songs officially unreleased except "Sunflowers" and the alternate LP mix of "Dreaming You Backwards" (RA plays the solo on domestic releases; John Mayer plays the solo on the imports). "Doylestown Girl" was released in early 2019 exclusively to a Doylestown, PA radio station--it is conspicuously absent from the recent June 2021 release of  Big Colors (it has since been released in 2022 as part of the Romeo & Juliet 2xLP)."Sunflowers" is a non-LP track taken from a bonus 7-inch single (the flipside of "It's Not That Kind of Night" included with versions of the Wednesdays 2021 extended LP). 

Other songs include: a Big Colors 'outtake'--a 'Tom Waits-meets-Fozzy Bear' reading-- with his own lyrics--of the Frank Sinatra standard "My Way" (using 'the same Capitol mic'--complete with orchestra) was streamed on DRA's Instagram, circa June 2021; "Pacific Line"--taken from an April 2019 session with The Wolf Bros. 'unearthed from the Pax-AM vaults'--a 17-minute 'Cold Roses style' jam (featuring Don Was on upright bass; Bob Weir and RA on guitars; Jay Lane on drums).

To commemorate the 20th anniversary of Gold's release--and the passing of the great Charlie Watts--a couple of Stones covers were released to IG; a demo of "Play With Fire" from the Gold demos (2001) and "The Worst" (rehearsal from the Exile on Bourbon Street tribute concert he fronted a full band with Don Was, horns and all--in 2018).

New and previously unheard songs were debuted in RA's solo acoustic IG performances over the summer of 2021; "Do You Even Like Me Now?"; "Speeding Car" (written about the Cards breaking up--intended for A&F); "Tomorrow Never Comes" (a recorded version can be found on the cassette version of FM ); "Fool's Game" (written for Wednesdays; but rejected for "being too fatalistic"); as well as songs that would subsequently appear in studio form on the delayed final release of the Big Colors / Wednesdays / Chris trilogy in March 2022.

Teased for possible release in 2021-22. Ryan shared the gatefold and three songs, "Catherine", "The Door" and "Likening Love To War"; reportedly recorded 2012-14 with Ryan recalling the writing of the album as 'the one I knew I would eventually end up getting divorced'; according to recent posts regarding the ever-evolving project that began with Johnny. T over the 2005 holiday season; rejected by Lost Highway along with two other albums for a 2006 trilogy including War and Peace and songs recorded for The Cardinals' planned 3rd album, Star Wars. Several tracks demoed for Blackhole were partially released on a pair of digital albums (for free) under the moniker, Sad Dracula, in late 2006. 
In 2010, RA announced he and producer Jamie Candiloro along with Johnny T. had 'opened up the tracks' and produced a new version of the album which included the singles "Tomorrowland" and "Disco Queen"; the album was shelved after Orion (possibly due to complaints about PaxAm's poor distribution---delays; bad mastering or damaged vinyl, etc.).
In 2015, RA teased the album for a RSD release; 'a composite of the raw unhinged original demos and 2006 tracks with new overdubs--but we got the 15th anniversary Heartbreaker seven-inch release with "Come Pick Me Up (outtake)"  b/w  "Rope Gets Tied" instead.
Now, a third version with recordings from 2012-14 at Pax-AM was offered up in 2018 along with Prisoner 2/3; Live at The Capitol Theatre with The String Dusters; and Exile on Meryl Streep (the Exile on Main Street full album performance with band in New Orleans on Bourbon Street that year).

Ryan Adams 

BLACKHOLE  (2021)

1. FOR THE SUN  (previously recorded for Fasterpiece)
2. CATHERINE
3. TOMORROWLAND+    [Pax-Am digital single 003]
4. RUNAWAY*
5. WHEN I SMILE
6. THE DOOR
7. CALL ME BACK  (f.k.a. "Truth or Dare")
8. HELP US*
9. LIKENING LOVE TO WAR
10. STARFIRE  (previously recorded for Fasterpiece)
11. JUST YOU WAIT

Ryan Adams 

EXILE ON MERYL STREEP  

Ryan Adams

I WAS HERE  (2022)

---Side 1

Rollercoaster

In the Blue of the Night

Nightmare*     [DRA 2023 IG post] 

Poor Connection

Run

Memory Lane   [Sword and Stone] 

---Side 2

I Was Here 

Friday Night NYC  

Manhattan in the Rain    

Nuclear War     

Blizzard in the Room    

Make It Stop   

---Side 3

Don't Follow*    [CHRIS bonus track]

Earthquake

Hold Me Together

Losers

They Will Know Our Love

---Side 4

Pacific Line*  [DRA 2021 IG post] 

Songs taken from Romeo & Juliet and Sword and Stone; "Nightmare", and "Pacific Line" have been streamed on RA's IG stream 2021-23. The latter is easily found on YouTube.

The long awaited final installment of the projected 2019 trilogy with the original Big Colors and Wednesdays albums. As we know, history did not unfold as it originally was intended to be by the music's author. Both aforementioned albums were belatedly release in opposite order (December 2020 and July 2021, respectively) with different artwork and tracklists. The original CHRIS album has been described by RA as 'Cold Roses style tunes his late brother, Chris loved'---also as 'inauthentic' or something similar to paraphrase--as justification for scrapping the planned 18-song double LP and 're-doing it'. The end result is suspiciously sounding like the previously 'aborted' Prisoner 2/3 double LP that RA teased in 2018 (in the same paragraph promising the finished version of  Blackhole; as well as a couple live albums-- Live at The Capitol Theatre with The Stringdusters and Exile on Meryl Streep). 

Most of the songs indeed can be traced back to the eighty or so songs reportedly recorded from the 2014-16 sessions for Prisoner. However, we have enough songs from the July 2018 session (and tracks most likely done at Pax-Am leftover from the sessions for s/t and Prisoner) to make an album that clocks in around 57 minutes---plus, the 17-minute "Pacific Line" (from the April 2019 session with The Wolf Bros.) taking up a whole side on the second LP, like Dylan's Blonde on Blonde. 

I've also created an album for L.A. Rain Music using tracks from FM and Romeo & Juliet; the remaining tracks on the former (recorded with The Shining at Pax-Am during 2013-14 and later scrapped) can be put aside to go on their own album with the non-Prisoner tracks on CHRIS ("Aching For More", "Flicker and Fade", "Schizophrenic Babylon"; "Lookout"; "Chris"). 

Several more tracks from these sessions would appear on RA's Devolver digital LP release in late Sept. 2022 (released for FREE to celebrate one year of his sobriety). Congratulations to him!

Fan-made cover for early leaked version of the album. "When She Smiles" (Chris demo--Johnny T. on drums) was leaked shortly after the album's release (the finished version ended up on FM later that year) via YouTube. Possibly this and other songs from the 'Summer of 69 Demos' rec. in July 2018 like "Manhattan in the Rain"--and the two sessions with The Wolf. Bros. in April 2019 (that includes "Trouble on Wheels" and "Pacific Line") may have been intended for the original Chris 2xLP Ryan said he 'scrapped because it wasn't real enough'. The title track (originally written for RA's late Cardinals bandmate, Chris Feinstein) dates back to sessions for Ashes & Fire (it was re-written to be less personal specific as "Lucky Now"). The song was recorded in 2013 following sessions for the self-titled album. Ryan has leaked more songs from various sessions on his IG earlier this year. "I Was Here", "Nightmare" and "Take Me Home" are most likely leftovers from the 2018 sessions at Electric Lady Studios in NYC (48 songs---according to RA's IG posts at the time).

Ryan Adams

ROMEO & JULIET  (2022)

I Can't Remember

Free Yourself+    [Devolver] 

Brighter Than Heaven*  [DRA 2023 IG post]

Something's Missing

Romeo & Juliet

Desperate Times

This Is Your House

At Home with the Animals

Bye Bye Balloons*   [DRA 2022 IG post ]

What is Left*   [DRA 2021 IG post ]

Theo is Dreaming

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                         BONUS TRACKS (streamed on RA's IG in fall 2021)

1. Too Old to Die Young     [Side Writing to 'Heartbreaker']
2. On A Rollercoaster 
3. Counting to Zero

RA recorded several new tracks following his stepping back from old habits and beginning work on a proposed double album (' with a "Thank You Louise" similar production style') for 2022. New tracks on here include "At Home with the Animals", "Desperate Times", "Something's Missing", "Theo is Dreaming", "This Is Your House", "Anything", "I Can't Remember", " and the title track (source from RA's IG postings from the time). Other songs were recorded as well with a darker humorous tone including "Saturday Night Forever", "What is Left" and "My Life Before the War"--the latter which has recently been fleshed out as the Jan 2023 demo, "Brighter Than Heaven" (a.k.a. "Shut the Fuck Up"); streaming on RA's Instagram. 

I also included three songs he recorded last year as part of a 'side-writing' experiment to respond to songs from his album, Heartbreaker. RA also attempted re-recording songs from Gold in Sept. 2021 with a drummer friend in raw stripped-down style (before taking a 'break' from streaming on 23 September). 

Ryan Adams

DEVOLVER  (2022)

1. Don't Give It Away
2. Stare at the TV
3. Alien USA
4. Banging on My Head
5. Marquee
6. Eyes on the Door
7. Too Bored to Run
8. Get Away
9. I'm in Love with You
10. Why Do You Hate Me
11. Love Me Don't+   [FM]
12. Flicker in the Fade   [CHRIS]
13. Schizophrenic Babylon   [CHRIS]
14. Burn in the Night  ["Burn in the Night" 7-inch]
15. Do You Feel+  [FM]
16. Fantasy File+  [FM]
17. Revelations
18. On My Life+   ["Burn in the Night" 7-inch]

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Ryan Adams recorded a trilogy of cover albums starting with Nebraska and Blood on The Tracks (by Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan, respectively). He released a re-make of the 1995 Oasis classic album, (What's the Story) Morning Glory. Covers of the Sex Pistols' one and done classic, Never Mind the Bollocks were also streaming on his IG this past spring. He did a triumphant return solo tour performing three-hour shows in North America and Europe (recorded by producer Don Was). RA and drummer Brad Pemberton reformed The Cardinals *(with the noted absence of the late Neal Casal and Chris Feinsten, R.I.P.) for a tour and live album. A new Cardinals single, "Dreams of the Working Class" was released to streaming services. 

In early 2024, he released five more studio albums from the vaults with others teased for later release including Darkbreaker; Haywire (2013 Glyn Johns sessions); Exile on Mainstream (2018 Rolling Stones live tribute); Wednesdays Live; and even finally, Blackhole...Stay Tuned!

Cheers!

-Smash Addams.

This page is only possible to be as informative as possible because of good folks who are willing to contribute (off the record---though credit will always be given upon request). We don't want a repeat of 2005...Rob from tobeyoung.org (one of the O.G. Ryan sites along with AnsweringBell.org--to name another off the top of me head) went through some bullshit legal snafu trying to share some sweet tracks that were about to be released (Jacksonville City Nights). I'm not going out like that! Just a music lover who also makes music and find Ryan's prolific songwriting ability great inspiration and a high watermark for what an artist could aspire to be. That being said; feel free to reach out to me at the posted email for any questions. Always interested in discussing trading; info; various ramblings and speculations; etc.

* PLEASE DO NOT ASK FOR ANYTHING ON THIS PAGE RE: ILLEGAL FILE SHARING*  

I'm not selling anything or wishing to harm the artist's musical plans / vision. Ryan's continued health, well-being and of course, the success he has deservedly achieved (and continues to) is not a thing we wish to undermine. We just want to hear the music...and there's a LOT of it collecting digital dust, yeah?

Here's to the future.

Thank you: the YouTube sites by graciousfew; Future; TomorrowlandSt.; anonymous contributors and (the Internet Wayback Machine) websites like megasuperiorgold; answeringbell.com; Discog; ComePickMeUp and the ryanadams reddit and FB RyanAdamsSuperFans page and any other fans and YouTube sites I can't possibly remember for much needed info, etc.