If you pre-ordered a deluxe edition of Ashes & Fire, the pretty-great new Ryan Adams album, you got one particular extra: A Flexi-Disc copy of a gentle acoustic ramble called “Petal In A Rainstorm.” Like most of the tracks that made it onto Ashes & Fire, it’s a quietly confident song, and it would&...

Right now, Ryan Adams is on tour behind his excellent new album Ashes & Fire. And at a recent San Francisco show, he and opener Jason Isbell, the former Drive-By Truckers member, got together onstage to cover “Love In The First Degree,” the 1981 hit from the bearded-up establishment-country band Alabama. The Adams/Is...

The new Ryan Adams album Ashes & Fire went over pretty well around here, so today we’re giving away the deluxe box set which includes quite the collection of swag. Included in the deluxe box is: Ashes And Fire vinyl Flexi-disc soundsheet of “Petals In The Rain” A foldout 3-D photo of Ryan Custom 3-D [...]

Someone wise once told me that most great country singers are really just soul singers. I’m not sure whether Ryan Adams even counts as a country singer anymore; he’s spent the past decade or so slip-sliding into the L.A. rock-pro universe. But he’s definitely a soul singer, especially on his new one Ashes &...

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