LUCY DAWN, 'Lost Thoughts in Every Direction' [re-imagined LP]

Newly remastered tracks from the original 2016 album 'WRONG IN EVERY DIRECTION' with selections from the 2017 album, 'LOST THOUGHTS'; plus the 2021 single, "Step One" (featuring drums by Uncle Pain). Written, produced, engineered and mixed by Lucy Dawn.

SMASH ADDAMS '24

 

20TH ANNIVERSARY

Compilation of tracks recorded between 2004 and 2020 / Remastered in 2024

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01 - All That's Golden is Gone
02 - Lonely Nights Multiplied by the Blues  [STRANGE PARALLEL]
(bass - Michael Grant / drums - P.J. Gosa)  Recorded circa 2008 live to 8-track with ODs / Previously released by Quantum Records-US on the 2009 E.P., Music of the Gods 

03 - Golden Frown   Recorded circa 2008 with ODs added in late 2011 / Previously released on the 2015 compilation 25 Songs Redacted From Memory

04 - We Don't Live Here Anymore
(bgv - Lita Williams / engineer - Leo Goff, III / Rec. Nov. 2004 at Nu-Star Studio, Memphis, TN) Taken from the 2020 album Sitcom Formula

05 - Whatever You Want*
(drums - Uncle PAIN / rhythm guitar - Tom Allen / bass, engineer - Evan Murphy / Rec. 2006 at County Line Studio, North MS; OD by Uncle PAIN, 2021)

06 - Formula (Cry on Command)  Recorded late 2008 / Previously released on 2009 album, Brilliantly Deranged

07 - Afraid of What I Don't See*
(bass, tambourine, bgv - Lucy Dawn)  Recorded to 8-track circa 2014

08 - I Lied  Recorded circa 2007 / Previously released on the 2008 album, Detriment

09 - Drink Myself to Sleep* [MANICS]
(bass, lead guitar - V.T. / drums - Matt Tamke)  Recorded circa 2010 live to 8-track with ODs

10 - 5th Beetle at The Last Supper Recorded summer 2018 / Previously released on Zero Chance Left For the Infinite Room

11 - Sure Enough [THE BLAYLOCKS]
(drums, outro guitar, engineer - Bill Komulainen / Rec. 2005 at stableunelement, Memphis, TN) Taken from the 2007 album Leaving It All Behind

12 - Pretty Please Kill Me  Recorded early 2020 / Previously released on ¡ALRIGHT, ALREADY!

13 - Look on the Bright Side, Suicide  Recorded to 4-track, fall 2006 / Previously released on the 2020 compilation, The Low-Down 4-Track Sounds

14 - It's True*
(drums - Uncle PAIN / rhythm guitar - Tom Allen / engineer - Evan Murphy / Rec. 2006 at County Line Studio, North MS; OD by Uncle PAIN, 2021)

15 - Since I Found You [MANICS]
(drums, guitar, bass - V.T.)  Recorded live to 8-track with ODS, circa 2010 / Taken from Correcting the Manics

16 - Do You Feel the Same Way? [THE CREDENTIALS]
(bgv, organ, 2nd bass - Lucy Dawn)  Recorded late 2012 / Taken from the 2015 compilation, You Can't Prove That

17 - Oh Well [STRANGE PARALLEL]
(drums - Ken Savage / acoustic guitar - Cliff Haskins / bgv - Lucy Dawn)  Recorded live to 8-track with ODs, circa 2010 / Taken from the 2015 compilation, 25 Songs Redacted From Memory

18 - Sunday Morning is Getting Harder to Find  Recorded circa 2007 / Taken from the 2008 album, Detriment

19 - Anything, Anymore [THE BLAYLOCKS]
(electric guitar solo, engineer - Bill Komulainen / harmony - Annie Freres / Rec. 2005 at stableunelement, Memphis, TN) Taken from the 2020 album, Sitcom Formula

20 - I Found Out About You [MANICS]
(lead guitar, bass - V.T. / drums - Matt Tamke)  Recorded live to 8-track with ODS, circa 2010 / Taken from Correcting the Manics

21 - I Don't Need to Be Saved [THE PAINTERS, live on WREG, 2014]
(bass, bgv - Lucy Dawn / lead guitar - Wyn Dawson / drums - Vince McLemore / Rec. at WREG-TV, Memphis, TN)   Taken from the 2020 album, Sitcom Formula

22 - Waiting
(keys, bgv - Lucy Dawn) Recorded early 2020 / Previously released on ¡ALRIGHT, ALREADY!

credits

released March 1, 2024

Produced by Adam Gaither
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All songs ©2024 SMASH ADDAMS MUSIC

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

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

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

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

CHeers!

CLICK HERE to listen on Spotify

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

WHISKEYTOWN: Alternate Discography (1995-2001)

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

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

1. My Heart Is Broken

2. Kiss and Make Up

3. Further Down the Road

4. Ten Seconds Til the End of the World

5. Here's to the Rest of the World

6. Empty Baseball Park

7. San Antonio

8. Factory Girl

9. All You Can Feel

10. New York Angel

11. Only to Lose

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

CHECK IT OUT HEAR AT: 

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01 Anyone But Me 

02 Don’t Wanna Know Why

03 Easy Hearts

04 Sittin’ Around

05 Rays of Burning Light 

06 Ghost Without Memory

07 Runnin’ Out of Road

08 Can’t Take a Lover 

09 Think About Me 

10 Crazy Lonesome 

11 Caroline

HAPPY GO BYE-BYE  

(1999)

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

7. 

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

 

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

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

 

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

Ryan Adams & The Cardinals

COLOR BARS  (2006)

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

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

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

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

RYAN ADAMS, Destroyer [imagined LP]

 

Credits for the cover art I guess are by this guy.

Ryan Adams 

DESTROYER  (2000)

You didn't think I forgot about this one, did you?  I played Heartbreaker; Love is Hell; Suicide Handbook, 48 Hours, all the leaked 2000-01 sessions and Pinkhearts (THANK YOU, LOST HIGHWAY...but also..NO 20/20. WHAT A CATCH 22?! I hate numbers. There's too many of them); Cold Roses, JCN and 29; Gold, Demolition and RNR---and yes, even Easy Tiger--I mean played them front to back the FUCK out. Whiskeytown, too. OF COURSE. I got a little weary of Cardinology and his post-2010 output; that's WHY I started this blog in the first place, lol. Well that and lack of anything else to do, constructively or creative wise. I personally didn't care for much of Destroyer; too slow...weird versions of Heartbreaker tunes, etc. THIS is just MY own personal tastes. I found Heartbreaker a little inconsistent for the 'big breakup record' it is. I think my reconstructed version of THAT one flows better. The remaining songs were far from shite. I just didn't have anywhere to put them; then it hit me. So I combined and re-sequenced them to fit between Heartbreaker and Suicide Handbook. 

Maybe Bloodshot could've put this out as a second album? I think Ryan decided to scrap the Destroyer demos and start over; good decision. The excuse then was "Geffen/Interscope wants to claim the recordings" (though I'm pretty sure Interscope would've kept him if THEY wanted to)---he had previously almost signed with A&M after the band broke-up the first time (he and Phil W. were the first two members to sign with Outpost...then, Caitlin came back---Skillet got 'demoted', lol). The alt-country 'fad' didn't become the big cheese the industry thought grunge was; Outpost Recordings folded. Whiskeytown's last album was shelved (the 20 song double LP that later was remixed by RA and Ethan Johns--Pneumonia). 

THE FELLAS, "Loving You Has Been So Wonderful" [imagined LP]

THE FELLAS

Loving You Has Been So Wonderful   (1972)

Make My Water Boil (Loving You Has Been So Wonderful)     [The Motown Solo Albums, vol. 2]
I Feel Like I'm Falling in Love Again     [Motown Unreleased 1967]
Once You Had a Heart     [One by One: The Best of Their Solo Years]
Lullaby of Love    [Anthology: The Best of The Temptations]

I'll Turn to Stone     [Motown Rarities 1965-1968]
Mountain of Memories      [The Unreleased Album]
Feel Like Giving Up      [One by One: The Best of Their Solo Years]
Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time)     [I Am My Brother's Keeper]
I'd Rather Forget*
Heaven Help Us All       [The Unreleased Album]
Give it Up      [Gettin' Ready CD re-issue]
Since I Don't Have You      [Motown Unreleased 1967]
What's So Good About Goodbye     [Motown Rarities 1965-1968]

I Need You More Than Ever     [A Cellarful of Motown Vol 4.]
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In 1968, David Ruffin was fired by The Temptations and replaced with ex-Contours frontman Dennis Edwards. Ruffin sought to be released from his contract with Motown but the company would not let him go. Instead, Motown would retain Ruffin's original contract he signed as a solo artist (along with his brother Jimmy Ruffin years before) and release his 1969 debut LP 'My Whole World Ended'. This arrangement would prove detrimental to Ruffin's career; his would-be smash 1971 LP  'David' was shelved for seemingly no reason. Ruffin also teamed up with Stevie Wonder for what could've been a big hit single. "Make My Water Boil (Loving You Has Been So Wonderful)" was written, produced and recorded by Wonder himself with Ruffin delivering the vocal only he could. Despite its completion in 1972, Motown once again sat on it and David Ruffin's solo career was cooled considerably.

As early as 1970, Ruffin had expressed his desire to put together a new group called The Fellas with his brother Jimmy, Dennis Edwards and the other two soon-to-be ex-Temptations, Eddie Kendricks and Paul Williams. Though this move would have ended Kendricks's solo career before it started and probably The Temptations, as well. Paul Williams would retire from the Tempts due to health issues. He would team up with Kendricks again to record "Feel Like Giving Up" b/w "Once You Had a Heart". The 45 was shelved due to Williams's untimely death in 1973. Other recordings made by Williams exist ("I Need You More Than Ever" closes out this collection) and I found this along with other Motown outtakes like "I'd Rather Forget" and "Lullaby of Love" (sung by Kendricks and the Tempts left over from album sessions) and covers of  "What's So Good About Goodbye" and "I'll Turn to Stone" recorded by Dennis Edwards prior to joining the Tempts. I fill the rest out with songs from Ruffin's David LP ("Heaven Help Us All" and the demo "Mountain of Memories"), some cuts from the Motown Unreleased 1967 CD compilation ("Since I Don't Have You" by Ruffin with the Tempts; a Jimmy Ruffin 45 of "Feel Like I'm Falling in Love Again") and the Ruffin brothers covering the Delfonics (taken from their own LP, I Am My Brother's Keeper).

This LP would not have been allowed to be. It's fun to make believe, though. 

R.I.P. Paul Williams, David Ruffin, Eddie Kendricks, Melvin Franklin, and Dennis Edwards.