PAX-AM Sessions Chronology***UPDATE 2025*** (ALIEN USA, PRISONER trilogy, etc.)

 Updates re: 2022-25 albums and chronology; personnel info, etc. 

BLACKHOLE (mk III) Sessions  - Spring 2012-13  (no other info available about this session)*

Overdubs and remixing to 2010 ELS mixes, etc. including---"Tomorrowland", "Parts of Me", "Call Me Back", "Just You Wait", "For the Sun", "StarFire" released on 2024 LP /  "Too Late" and "Why" released on Heatwave  / others ?  (unreleased)

New songs on 2024 version: 

"Catherine" / "The Door" / 

"Likening Love to War" / 

"Help Us" / "Runaway" 

HAYWIRE (a.k.a. TOO BORED TO RUN) 

Sessions with Glyn Johns at Sunset Sound (Studio B) - spring 2013

Personnel: Ryan Adams; Don Was; Cindy Cashdollar; Jeremy Stacey; Benmont Tench

"Shining Through the Dark" (version 3)  / "Kim" (version 1) / "In the Shadows" / "It Won't Heal / "Haywire" / " Too Bored to Run" (version 1) / "This is Where We Meet in My Mind" / "How Much Light" / others ?

RYAN ADAMS (self-titled) LP

sessions at PAX-AM (summer 2013)

Personnel: Ryan Adams; Mike Viola; Charlie Stavish; Jeremy Stacey; Tal Wilkenfield; Marshall Vore; Benmont Tench; Mandy Moore; David Labrel; others ?

LP songs  / "Walkedypants"; "Do You Laugh When You Lie?" / "Willow Lane"; "Yes or Run"; "Red Hot Blues" / "I Do Not Feel Like Being Good" / "How Much Light" / "I'm in Love With You Again" (version 1) / "In the Dark" /  others ?

Session with Johnny Depp

"Aching For More" (b-side version) ; "Kim" (version 2); "Feels Like Fire" (released on S/T); "No Shadow" / "Mother" (Danzig cover / unreleased); others ?

Session with Bob Mould  *(no info available about this session)

"Summer Rain"  ? ;  others ??

ALIEN USA 

30 songs for a 2xLP with The Shining at Pax Am / Fall 2013 

(after scrapped 2nd album with Glyn Johns) 

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 2015-16 sessions. CHRIS album tracks: "Flicker in the Fade"; " Schizophrenic Babylon"; "Chris"; " Lookout (The Past)"; "Burn in the Night"; 'On My Life"; "Cop City";  plus "I Can See the Light" and "Nuclear War" (released on Sword and Stone in 2024); "Not Trash Anymore" (released on Self Portrait in late 2025) / "The Best"; "World at War"; "Forest Full of Eyes"; others ? (unreleased).

PAX-AM 7-inch series:

Personnel: Ryan Adams, Charlie Stavish, Mike Viola; Marshall Vore; Jeremy Stacey; Daniel Clarke; Stephen Pratt; Dave Labrel; Gus Seyffert; Alice Baxley; others ? 

 "Blue Light"; "I Lost My Mind" / "Vampires"; "Clown Asylum"; "Suburbia"; "Magic Flag"/  "Look in the Mirror" (version 1)  / "I Lost My Mind" /  ?  

1984/1985/1986/1987/1983 (Ryan solo with Charlie Stavish)

All songs on 1984 and 1985 except "What Do You Want" and "Lies"  (2003 NYC Stratosphere Sessions) / "Down the Drain"  (2021 'Diary Songs')  / "On a Side" / "Between the Bars"  (July 2018 at ELS)

Summer 2014 sessions: 

Personnel: Ryan Adams; Mike Viola; Charlie Stavish; Marshall Vore; David Labrel

"Jacksonville" / "I Keep Running" (Ryan solo) / "I Do Not Feel Like Being Good" (ver. 2) / "How Much Light" (ver. 2) / "In the Dark" / "I'm in Love With You Again" (acoustic) / others ?

PRISONER pt. 1 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. 

Personnel: Ryan Adams, Johnny T., Charlie Stavish, Mike Viola, Daniel Clarke, Jason Boesel; Joe Sublett; Beatriz Artola

25 songs recorded for two part double album. 23 songs including "Dive"; "I'll Wait"; "Replaced"; "Take It Back"; "Still A Cage"; "Moving Target"; "Say What You Said"; "I Got Lost"; "Spinning Wheel"; "Was I Wrong"; "Baby I Love You"; "You Don't Love Me" (n.k.a. "Love Me Don't"); PRISONER 2017 album tracks except for "Do You Still Love Me?" (taken from The Shining's scrapped 2nd album sessions following tour in 2014) / "Stay Alive" was previously recorded with producer and co-writer Theodore Shapiro for singer José González on the soundtrack to the film, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. "Love Me Don't" was most likely re-recorded with The Shining for their scrapped second album in fall 2016. 

Danny Collins soundtrack   (Produced by Theodore Shapiro)

"Don't Look Down" (co-written with Don Was - sung by A.I. generated Al Pacino voice); "Mary"  (unreleased full versions). ***Mentioned in Nov. 2014 article***

PRISONER part 2 and 3 (Pax-AM sessions 2015-16)  with Johnny T.

"So Helpless"; "I Am Alone"; "The Cold" /  PRISONER B-SIDES / "Memory Lane"; "Never Run" (released on Sword and Stone); "At Dawn" (released on Self Portrait); others ?

Around 80 songs were recorded for Prisoner (according to RA)

The Shining II sessions (Fall 2016)

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

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

Other tracks include "Love Me Don't" (a.k.a. "You Don't Love Me" - ver. II); "Fantasy File"; "Do You Feel"; "So Dumb" (released on FM); others?

1989

Personnel: Ryan Adams; Stephen Pratt; Charlie Stavish; Nate Walcott; Tod Wisenbaker; The Section Quartet

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" and The Shining II tracks) See LA RAIN MUSIC entry. "Sword and Stone" (released on Sword and Stone in 2024); "Mercy" (released on Heatwave in 2024). 

'SUMMER OF 69 Demos'

Wednesdays / Big Colors / CHRIS*   (July 2018 at ELS)

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*); "The Howling" (n.k.a. "Nightmare");  "As a Light" (n.k.a. "Run"); "Earthquake" (f.k.a. "Missing Pieces"); "Father" (n.k.a. "Hold Me Together"); "Letting the Light In" (f.k.a. "Too Much Morning"); "Bars"; "Question Mark" (n.k.a. "Make It Stop"); "I Lost My Place" (f.k.a. "I Forgot to Be What I Was") ; "Valentine" (f.k.a. "Keep Me Tonight") / "Things Are Losing Meaning"; "Kick Me"; "So Shattered"; "Stolen Books"; "Pray for My Soul"; "Closer"; "Star Maps"; "Math Maze" (unreleased). Overdubs were added to tracks from the Pax-Am sessions. See I WAS HERE entry. 

"Hold Me Together", "Run", and "Earthquake" released on Romeo & Juliet / "I Was Here", "Manhattan in the Rain", "Question Mark" (n.k.a. "Make It Stop") and "Blizzard in the Room" released on Sword and Stone /"I Lost My Place" released on Star Sign / "Between the Bars" released on 1985 /  "Thunderstorm Tears" (f.k.a. "Who is Gonna Save Me Now"), "Take the Money" released on Self Portrait in 2025 /  "Nightmare" and  "Valentine" were both streamed on IG in 2023. 

CHRIS sessions  at Pax-AM

Scrapped by Ryan because he did a 'rush-job' on the original planned 2xLP for 2019. Overdubs were done on "Chris"; "Schizophrenic Babylon"; "Manhattan in the Rain"; "When She Smiles"; and other tracks from prior sessions intended for the 2022 album. "Manhattan in the Rain" was streamed on Ryan's IG along with other tracks that were slated for CHRIS in Sept. 2021. Several tracks were released on Romeo & Juliet--as well as other albums, including Self Portrait (2025). The 2022 released title track was originally from the 2013 Alien USA sessions.

Personnel: Ryan Adams; others ?

"Throw It Away", "Don't Follow"; "Losers"; "They Will Know Our Love"; "Valentine"; "Trash Man"; "Pacific Line", "Trouble on Wheels"; others ? 

See WOLF BROTHERS entry below

Capitol Studios with Don Was (Fall 2018)…most of the original WEDNESDAYS album (including "Magic Trick", "Nobody Wins", "Pennsylvania Moon"---renamed to "Crooked Shake"; "Anything"; and "My Heaven", respectively--for the CHRIS and R&J albums);"Sunflowers"; "Fool's Game"; "Mirage" (n.k.a. "When She Smiles"); "My Way" (cover song / parody); "Liar Machine"; "Name and Number"; others ? (except "I Was Here"; "Big Colors" , "What Am I"; "Poor Connection"; "Do Not Disturb", "Power", "When You Cross Over", "Birmingham", "Mamma"; "The Howling", "Question Mark", "Missing Pieces", "Father", "As a Light", "Too Much Morning", "Take Me Home", "Kick Me"; "Math Maze"; "Keep Me Tonight"). Personnel: Ryan Adams; Don Was; Beatriz Artola; Benmont Tench; Stephen Pratt; Brendan McCusker; Emmylou Harris; Paul Schaefer; Jason Isbell*; others. 
Overdubs were added to tracks from PaxAm and ELS sessions. Jason Isbell is rumored to have participated in overdubs (most likely a guitar solo) 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 "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). Paul Schaefer played piano on "Crooked Shake".

"Hold Me Together" (f.k.a. "Father"); "Run" (f.k.a. "As a Light"); "Earthquake" released on Romeo & Juliet / "Letting the Light In" and "Crooked Shake" (f.k.a. "Magic Trick") released on CHRIS / "When She Smiles" released on FM / "Fool's Game" and "Who is Gonna Save Me Now" (n.k.a. "Thunderstorm Tears") released on Self Portrait in 2025 / "The Howling" (n.k.a. "Nightmare"), "My Way", and "Keep Me Tonight" (n.k.a. "Valentine")  were streamed on RA's IG in between 2021-23. 

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) / "Losers" may be from this session, as well. 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 Capitol 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. 

Romeo & Juliet / Self Portrait 

'Side writing against Heartbreaker' (Fall 2021-22)

"Too Old to Die Young", "I Am a Rollercoaster", "Saturday Night Forever", "Look What You Did", "Please Shut the Fuck Up" (Released on Self Portrait in 2025); "I Can't Remember", "Something's Missing"; "This is Your House" / except "Counting to Zero" (streamed on IG in 2021); others ?

Diary Songs / demo sessions at Pax-Am including:  "Try Again Tomorrow", "Stormy Weather"; "Down the Drain" (released on 1985); except "Fantasy Job"; "Unicorn Bones"; "My Life Before the War"; "Therapist Diss"; "Good Looking Guy"; "The French Café"; "Digging My Own Grave"; "Allergic to Hope"; others ?

Cover songs: "Honky Tonk Girl"  (Loretta Lynn]; "The One I Love", "Shiny Happy People"  (R.E.M.); "Castles in the Sand" (a.k.a "Castles in the Air"  / Don Mclean) except "What If" (Creed); others ?

July 2022 - 10 song LP sessions "Thank You Louise" style with no drums, etc.'

"Romeo and Juliet", "Desperate Times", "At Home with the Animals", "Theo is Dreaming"  (released on Romeo & Juliet) / "Theo" (f.k.a. "What is Left"), "Bye Bye Balloons", "Lovers Under the Moon"; "Free Yourself" (released on Devolver) / except "Amethyst"  (streamed on IG in 2024); others ?

CARDINALS Mach 3 demos

Personnel: Ryan Adams; Chris Stills; Don Was; Brad Pemberton; Daniel Clarke

2023 demos for a proposed double-album: "Mirror Man"; "Miracle"; "Lover, I'll Try"; "Starcrossed"; "Love Sick"; "Virginia in the Rain"; "Clown"; others ?

ALIVE, vol. 1

Live recordings from tour with 'new' Cardinals; other two volumes cancelled.

CHANGES

Live album of solo acoustic cover songs initially released as singles.

String overdubs for Prisoners Live / Another Wednesday

circa 2023 

String overdubs for Changes / Heartbreaker '25 / Self Portrait 

Late Dec. 2025, RA announces another trilogy of new albums for the coming year. Newer songs teased during his recent tour include "Nobody's Angel", "Amethyst", and "Outsiders In". 

Announced 2026 Trilogy:

Animals / Men and Women / WAR

Ryan Adams and The Cardinals, 'DARKBREAKER' [imagined LP]***UPDATED***

 

1. Saturday Night
2. Two*
3. Everything Dies
4. When the Wild Wind Blows
5. Cemetery Hill
6. Dreams of the Working Class
7. Movie Stars Hurt+  (f.k.a. "Movie Star Girl")
8. Star Maps+  (f.k.a. "Maps")
9. Who Were We?
10. Elizabeth*
11. Lighthouses*
12. Words
13. Destroy Yourself   (f.k.a. "Jessica")
14. Don't Get Sentimental on Me*

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

2025 432 Hz. Master (from the best possible sources available with additional production and mastering where needed).

This compilation started with the twenty-three songs that were believed to be recorded initially with Cameron Crowe's film soundtrack in mind---as well as the Cardinals' follow-up to Jacksonville City Nights. Some were unfinished sounding and Ryan probably would have done more to them like "Clementine" and "Elizabethtown" (though that song in particular he reportedly hated). 

Some songs were late re-done with The Cardinals during the sessions for what became Easy Tiger (and III/IV)---like "Two", "Two Hearts", "Everybody Knows" and "The Sewers at the Bottom of the Wishing Well". "Saturday Night" ,"Dreams of the Working Class" and "Clementine" are re-worked songs originally written during the 2000-01 era (albeit, with new lyrics).

Ryan, with producer (and subsequent Cardinals keyboardist) Jamie Candiloro, first redid "Lighthouses" (with some added 'optimistic' lyrics) in a sort of similar arrangement to "Two"---though it doesn't have the same vibe as the original. Ryan sort of 'disavowed' the depressing lyrics in the post 2006 articles RE: Darkbreaker. He initially said 'War and Peace' would be about "cleaning up his act". After scrapping the Elizabethtown soundtrack idea (one song was used, "Words")---and around the time RA also began work on his (later rejected) War and Peace solo double album---the band (now with Neal Casal added to the mix), would record more collections of songs (i.e. reference discs...CANDY a.k.a. Cardinals III / Ratt Classics I and II / Color Bars; etc.) to be rejected by Lost Highway until he tried doing a 'back to basics' album---as well as various combinations of solo acoustic cuts with more songs accompanied by the band---narrowed down to those with the most commercially viable songs-- give it that 'unrepentant but I'm also in recovery' vibe (PR schemes)...and voila, Easy Tiger.

CLICK ON IMAGE FOR 2005-07 SESSIONS TIMELINE

Ryan also overdubbed more and re-did vocals for "Cemetery Hill", "Who Were We?" and "Maps"---as well as reworking "Lions of Broadway" into "Steve Miller & Weed" during the Dec. 2005 and early 2006 sessions for his rejected 'War & Peace' double album---which in itself was joined by The Cardinals into making their next double album (III/IV)---which would be rejected and eventually become other (mostly rejected) projects. 

"Two", "Everybody Knows", "Who Were We?" and "Jessica" (now known as "Destroy Yourself"---yes, he changed the lyrics again for the 2008 demo of the same name on his blog) were part of the proposed track list for CANDY (Cardinals III) in 2006. Ryan mentioned in a 2006 article from around this time that the band had 16 songs ('half are good---half aren't good enough'---to paraphrase). He also mentioned Blackhole and War & Peace, as well. 

As we know, the former album would be revised and teased for a release in 2010----only to go through more revisions before being released in an inferior version (mix, mastering, songs, etc.) in late 2024. These projects would also overlap with the Sad DRAcula digital albums (Dec. 2005 sessions with Tom Schick at ELS; the Mercy Sound sessions with Johnny T. ) and Ryan's ORION side-project with producer Jamie Candiloro. Ryan also recorded with the Grateful Dead's Phil Lesh, as well, during the 2006 year. The Cardinals would lose guitarist J.P. Bowersock (he chose to not tour for JCN in 2005) and bassist Catherine Popper---replacing them with the late singer-guitarist Neal Casal and Santigold's Chris Feinstein, respectively---before finally finishing Ryan's Easy Tiger album in early 2007. You know the rest...and it's all history, I guess.  

It's been said that several tracks were recorded by Ryan with the box set still in mind (to replace the Gold tracks and superfluous versions like "Off Broadway", "Two", "Elizabeth", and "Hard Way to Fall", for example). Thus, the songs we haven't heard (before 2007--anyway) being on the 'official' versions of 48 Hours ("24/7", "Listen to the Radio", "Black Myrtle"); Commercial Suicide ("Lonely is As Lonely Does"); Darkbreaker and the infamous Saturday Night Feverblister tracks ("Game Over", "On Fire", "Free Dreams", "Actors on Actors", "Sweet Dreams", "A Wish") with the Pinkhearts album (basically the same thing---Litt tried to produce a new improved version of that album but at least we got "Suspicion"). 

 

I added "Movie Stars Hurt" and "Destroy Yourself" cos I felt they fit the vibe. The electric 12-string overdub on the latter (probably Graboff---like elsewhere on III/IV) leads me to believe it was done with (part of) the band and Jamie C after the Elizabethtown Sessions in Dec. 2005.

The former (recorded in early 2006 for Ryan's War and Peace double album) was originally called "Movie Star Girl" with slightly different lyrics---it was another song from the 2001 live era like "Saturday Night", "Dreams of the Working Class" and "Clementine". I left off "Destroyers" , "Steve Miller & Weed", and "Sewers at the Bottom of the Wishing Well" since they've been officially released.

The original "Lions of Broadway" and "Maps" sounded too raw for repeated listens with the existing mixes to work with. The 2006 version of "Lighthouses" doesn't have the same vibe as the original 2005 version---however, he improved "Maps" (which was retitled "Take 'Em to the Stars and Back" ---then later "Star Maps" for the as-of-yet unheard version from the 2018 sessions at ELS). "Everyone Knows" is interesting---but you can tell it's not done. I'd love to hear the version they did for III/IV, but it's not circulating. I'd imagine it's probably like this version of "Two" in being better than its Easy Tiger counterpart.

--------------------------------RECORDING SESSIONS INFO:

Songs 1-14 reportedly recorded solo at Sunset Sound (same room as GOLD) with Tom Schick, fall 2005 / 2nd session at ELS with Jamie Candiloro and The Cardinals + string section / Additional recording in Dec. 2005 for Star Wars demos ("Destroy Yourself") / early 2006 for War and Peace sessions ("Who Were We") / Unreleased except "Words" (soundtrack album in 2006); tracks 5, 11, 13-14 (posted as part of the Sad DRAcula digital albums released in late 2006) and "Dreams of the Working Class" (2023 digital single).

1. Cemetery Hill  (remixed and overdubbed for War and Peace and III/IV)
2. The Sewers at the Bottom of the Wishing Well*  (re-recorded for Fasterpiece; re-recorded with The Cardinals for III/IV)
3. Everyone Knows*   (re-recorded with The Cardinals as "Everybody Knows")
4. When the Wild Wind Blows  (previously recorded with The Cardinals for JCN)
5. Actors on Actors+   (previously recorded as "Tears" for Scott LItt sessions)
6. Clementine  (f.k.a. "Madeline")   (previously recorded for The Stockholm Sessions)
7. Dreams of the Working Class+   (f.k.a. "Dreams of a Working Class Clown")  [2023 digital single]
8. Lions of Broadway*  (n.k.a  "Steve Miller and Weed" / re-recorded for Let It B-Minus)
9. Who Were We?   (remixed and overdubbed for War and Peace)
10. Words+   [Elizabethtown, vol. 2: Songs For the Ride Home digital E.P.]
11. Destroy Yourself+   (a.k.a. "Jessica")
12. Maps* (n.k.a. "Take 'Em to the Stars and Back" / remixed and overdubbed for W & P)
13. 4th of July+   (re-recorded as "Sweet Dreams" for War and Peace)
14. Until Then+   (previously recorded  for Sear Sound demos)
15. Lighthouses*   (re-recorded for War and Peace)
16. Everything Dies+   [2025 IG post]
17. Don't Get Sentimental on Me   (re-recorded for War and Peace)
18. Two   (re-recorded for Blackhole demos and Easy Tiger)*
19. Saturday Night+  (different lyrics than Pinkhearts 2001 demo)    [2023 IG post]
20. Elizabeth, You Were Born to Play That Part*   (previously recorded for 29)
21. Elizabethtown*  (previously recorded as "On My Way to Jacksonville" for JCN demos)
22. Willows*   (re-recorded as "Temporary Vampires" for Let It B-Minus)
23. Two Hearts (acoustic)*   

RYAN ADAMS, 'Wednesdays' [re-imagined 2xLP] ***2025 UPDATE***

 

RYAN ADAMS 

WEDNESDAYS  (alt.)

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+      [Wednesdays  bonus 7"]
7. Somewhere It Is Spring+      [Wednesdays  bonus 7"]
8. Poison & the Pain
9. Nobody Wins+   (n.k.a. "Anything")     [Romeo & Juliet] 
10. Mamma   (f.k.a. "Woman")    (featuring Emmylou Harris)
11. When You Cross Over   (featuring Emmylou Harris)
12. Birmingham*    (2017 mix / featuring Jason Isbell's guitar solo)
13. Like a Heatwave*    [2021 IG post]
14. Red & Orange Special+    [Wednesdays  bonus 7"]
15. Crooked Shake+   (f.k.a. "Magic Trick")    [CHRIS]
16. Pennsylvania Moon+   (n.k.a. "My Heaven")     [Romeo & Juliet]
17. Take Me Home*    [2023 IG post]

Part II: The Lost Songs

1. Dreaming You Backwards   (alt. guitar solo mix)*    [UK import LP version]
2. Earthquake+   (f.k.a. "Missing Pieces")    [Romeo & Juliet]
3. Letting the Light In+   (f.k.a. "Too Much Morning")     [CHRIS]
4. Sunflowers+    [Wednesdays  bonus 7"]
5. The Howling*  (n.k.a. "Nightmare")     [2023 IG post]
6. Make It Stop+  (f.k.a. "Question Mark")    [Sword and Stone]
7. Hold Me Together+  (f.k.a. "Father")     [Romeo & Juliet]
8. Poor Connection+   [Romeo & Juliet]
9. I Lost My Place+   (f.k.a.  "I Forgot to Be What I Was")    [Star Sign]
10. Run+   (f.k.a. "As a Light")    [Romeo & Juliet]
11. Fool's Game   [Self Portrait]  
12. Thunderstorm Tears+   (f.k.a  "Who is Gonna Save Me Now?")    [Self Portrait]
13. I'm Sorry and I Love You   

The original mix of "Birmingham" (with Jason Isbell's guitar solo) was probably destroyed, lol. I liked Southeastern---and that's about it. It doesn't matter. None of this matters, haha. "Like a Heatwave", "The Howling", and "Take Me Home" were leaked by DRA, himself per usual on IG. 

(PART 1) PLAYLIST BELOW

PART 2    

"Dreaming You Backwards" (with John Mayer guitar solo) 

RYAN ADAMS, 'BLACKHOLE [re-imagined 3xLP]'

My own (imho) superior mix of the album - using the 2006 reference disc as source. 

RYAN ADAMS

Blackhole  (2024)

1. Disco Queen    [Pax-Am 003]
2. White Light*
3. Parts of Me*    (previously recorded as "S.O.S")
4. For the Sun*   (previously recorded as "Waiting For the Sun")
5. Starfire*      
6. Just You Wait*
7. When You're There*
8. The Vanishing*
9. Lost in Space*   (a.k.a. "Thunderclouds" / re-recorded as "Go Ahead and Rain")
10. The Door+   (previously recorded as "Sarah")
11. Call Me Back*    (a.k.a. "Truth or Dare")
12. Help Us+
13. Likening Love to War+
14. Catherine+
15. Tomorrowland     [Pax-Am 003]
16. Runaway+
17. When I Smile*

+ = 2024 LP Bonus Track    

* = unreleased 2006 mix

Bonus LP (outtakes, demos, etc.)

1. ROCK DUST*     [War and Peace]
2. TWO (Rock Version)*     [Feb 18, 2007 Mixes]
3. HEAVEN*    [Rat Classics, vol 2]
4. ROLLIN' WITH THE PUNCHES*   [Rat Classics, vol 2]
5. VALHALLA+     [Fasterpiece, Sad Dracula]
6. CALIFORNIA GASOLINE+     [Fasterpiece, Sad Dracula]
7. LOST AND FOUND+    (Blackhole 2010 outtake)     [Pax-Am 001]
8. GO AHEAD AND RAIN+    (previously recorded as "Lost in Space")    [Pax-Am 001]
9. S.O.S+   (re-recorded as "Parts of Me")   [Fasterpiece, Sad Dracula]
10. SARAH+   (Blackhole outtake)   [Fasterpiece, Sad Dracula]
11. IT ENDS THE WAY IT STARTED+    [Fasterpiece, Sad Dracula]
12. OBLIVION+   (Blackhole 2006 outtake)    [Pax-Am 005]
13.  F.U. WAIT+    (a.k.a. "Sounds Good to Me")     [War and Peace]
14. CLOSURE+   [Fasterpiece, Sad Dracula]
15. STARFIRE+     [Fasterpiece, Sad Dracula]
16. WAITING FOR THE SUN+     [Fasterpiece, Sad Dracula]
17. WHY+   (Blackhole 2010 outtake)    [Heatwave]   
18. TOO LATE+    (Blackhole 2014 outtake)     [Heatwave] 
19. ON A SIDE+   (Blackhole 2010 demo)   [1985]   

"I used to write 'licks'---but they drag on the track..."  

- DRA

SESSION HISTORY, etc.

late Dec. 2005 - Mercy Sound : 'RNR: Part Two' demos

Personnel: Ryan Adams (guitars / drums on "Lost and Found", "Two"; etc.) / bass / piano) , Jamie Candiloro; Johnny T. (drums on "Oblivion"; etc.), Gus Olberg (bass)

1. Valhalla**     [ORION bonus 7-inch]
2. California Gasoline
3. Lost and Found**     [Pax-Am 001]
4. Why^   (remixed and overdubbed for 2010 ELS mix)    [Heatwave]
5. S.O.S.  (re-recorded as "Number 3" a.k.a. "Parts of Me")
6. Sarah    
7. It Ends the Way it Started
8. Oblivion**    [Pax-Am 005]
9. F.U. Wait   (f.k.a. "Sounds Good to Me")     [War and Peace]
10. Closure   (re-recorded as "Natural Ghost" for War and Peace)
11. Starfire*   (re-recorded during ELS sessions) 
12. Two**   (Rock Version / re-recorded for Easy Tiger)     [Feb 18, 2007 Mixes]
13. Waiting for the Sun  (re-recorded as "For the Sun")
14. On Fire**   (previously recorded for Saturday Night Feverblister)
15. The Sewers at the Bottom of the Wishing Well    (re-recorded for III/IV)
16. Too Late^   (overdubbed and re-mixed for ELS / Pax-Am sessions)   
17. On a Side^  (instrumental / overdubbed and mixed for ELS sessions)   
18. ??? various song fragments^   (instrumental / overdubbed and mixed for ELS sessions) 

Released in late 2006 as the Sad Dracula digital LP, Fasterpiece 

(except for "Two", "Why", "Too Late", and "On A Side") 

** = mixed at ELS in Feb. 2007 / ^ = 2010 version (?)

                                                     The Blackhole Saga: A Brief History

The songs were recorded over three periods (Dec. 2005; Spring 2010; 2012-13). Tom Schick engineered the original sessions. Version one was part of a planned trilogy of albums in 2006 that was rejected one-by-one by Lost Highway (Ryan's label at the time). War and Peace (a 28- song solo double LP) and THE CARDINALS' Star Wars album (11-12 song LP including "Two", "Two Hearts" and title track). Before beginning work on 'Ashes and Fire'; RA wanted to get the album finished now that he had his own label, Pax-Am. Over four years of production had continued with producer Jamie Candiloro and the record was further recorded and overdubbed and finally mastered in early 2010. The album was going to be a pre-order with The Cardinals III/IV album recorded in 2006. But it was cancelled.

Mk I (2006)

Rumored Original Track list (From a blog post)

01. Black Hole (aka Disco Queen)*

02. White Light*

03. Parts of Me*  (aka Number 3)

04. Waiting for the Sun to Come*  (aka For The Sun)

05. Don't Disappear*  (aka Starfire)

06. Just You Wait*

07. When You're There*

08. She Isn't Vanishing*   (aka The Vanishing)

09. Lost in Space*  (aka Thunderclouds)   

10. When I Smile

11. Oblivion+      [Fasterpiece, Sad Dracula]

12. Lights Flashing*  (aka Tomorrowland)

13. Sarah+   (later re-written with new lyrics as "The Door")     [Fasterpiece, Sad Dracula]

14. Call Me Back*  (aka Truth or Dare)

Rumored Tack list #2 (from old Ryan message board forum)

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01. White Light

02. The Vanishing

03. S.O.S. 

04. Disco Queen

05. Tomorrowland

06. Waiting for the Sun

07. When I Smile

08. Starfire

09. When You're There

10. Thunderclouds

11. Just You Wait

12. Truth or Dare

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Ryan with the 2010 version from the record plant.

1. Disco Queen+    [Pax-Am-003] 
2. White Light*
3. Parts of Me*
4. Lost and Found+    [Pax-Am-001]
5. Why+      [Heatwave] 
6. Waiting for the Sun*
7. Starfire*
8. Just You Wait*
9. When You're There*
10. The Vanishing*
11. Lost in Space*    (a.k.a. "Thunderclouds" / re-recorded for Dear Impossible)
12. When I Smile*
13. Oblivion+     [Pax-Am-005]
14. Tomorrowland+     [Pax-Am-003]
15. Too Late*    (overdubbed and remixed at Pax-Am)     
16. Call Me Back*   (a.k.a. "Truth or Dare")
17. On a Side+    [1985]

* = unreleased mix

Personnel: Ryan Adams, Johnny T., Jamie Candiloro, Charlie Stavish

Ryan adding lead guitar to "When You're There"

15 March 2010 Blackhole Mk.II  sessions

2012-13 sessions at  Pax-Am - BLACKHOLE  (Mk III)

Personnel: Ryan Adams, Charlie Stavish; Johnny T.; others ?  

1. The Door+
2. Call Me Back   (f.k.a. "Truth or Dare")
3. Help Us+
4. Likening Love to War+
5. Starfire
6. Just You Wait
7. For The Sun
8. Catherine+
9. Tomorrowland
10. Too Late+     [Heatwave] 
11. Runaway+ 
12. When I Smile
13. ? others ??