Genere: Rock - Year: 2000
- Listened to at: Home via Rhapsody
- Tom says: “….the lingering, long-distance ache Welch and Rawlings bring to the tracks help make Heartbreaker’s songs sound like unearthed classics.”
Aaron says:
I know Ryan Adams from his overproductive 3-albums-a-year-in-need-of-an-editor phase. Heartbreaker is one of those albums I knew of by reputation but never got around to listening to, probably because his current work is so mediocre.
Now I feel like I’ve lost 9 years of my life having just listened to this album now. It’s an amazing piece of work that lives in the musical ether between rock, alt-country, and blues.
Adams, Gillian Welch, and David Rawlings set up shop in Nashville and somehow cranked out this perfect album in two weeks. That’s something that’s only possible when three people are so in tune creatively that everything they play is coming from some other level.
Eight albums into this little project, and I’ve hit the first recording that goes into my permanent library. That’s what I hoped to find on this journey.
Verdict
Transcendent. Five stars (out of five).
This is one of my favorite albums. I agree Ryan Adams has lost something though…I really quit buying his albums after the last good one, “Demolition”.
I used to do “Winding Wheel” during my coffee shop gig phase.