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

Ryan Adams

I WAS HERE  (2022)

----Side 1

Rollercoaster

In the Blue of the Night

Nightmare*    (f.k.a. "The Howling") / previously recorded for JCN)     [DRA 2023 IG post] 

Poor Connection

Throw It Away+     [Self Portrait] 

I Lost My Place+   (f.k.a. "I Forgot to Be What I Was")     [Star Sign]

---Side 2

I Was Here

Manhattan in the Rain    

Letting the Light In   (f.k.a. "Too Much Morning")     [CHRIS]

Nuclear War     

Blizzard in the Room    

---Side 3

Don't Follow*     [CHRIS bonus track]

Earthquake   (possibly "Missing Pieces" ?)

Hold Me Together   (f.k.a. "Father" / previously recorded for JCN)

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 to make an album that clocks in around 67 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 mostly 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; Several tunes (2018 ELS) have since been identified as outtakes from Wednesdays---so I've moved them to my own mix of that album) "Throw It Away" has been added from Self Portrait (2025).

Alternate mix

"Valentine" is not streaming anywhere at this time.

You could add "Nuclear War" in its place.