Ryan Adams & The CardinalsBest Ryan Adams & The Cardinals Albums Ranked
7.1
Avg Score
6
Opinions
4
Albums
2
Reviewers
Summary from 6 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated Ryan Adams & The Cardinals's catalog across 4 albums from 6 opinions, with an overall average of 7.1/10. The top-rated Ryan Adams & The Cardinals album is Jacksonville City Nights (2004) with a 7.3/10 average from 2 ratings, followed by Cold Roses and III/IV (Bonus Track Version). The discography on Wavelength spans 2004 to 2010.
Jacksonville City Nights
“Nearly a dozen albums in, counting Whiskeytown, Ryan Adams' shtick is that it's all shtick. If so much alt-country turned out to be a poseur's game of authenticity chic-- with a happy surfeit of strong songwriting, to be sure-- then no one embraced his poseurdom more openly than Ryan Adams. "I started this damn country band/ 'Cause punk rock was too hard to sing," he admitted from the get-go, whil”
Cold Roses
“The prickly singer/songwriter is a little more country than rock'n'roll on this 2xCD effort, which was recorded with a backup group called the Cardinals and features vocal contributions from Rachel Yamagata.”
III/IV (Bonus Track Version)
“Around 2006, prolific, hard-drugging singer-songwriter Ryan Adams cleaned up and began spitting out even more music. III/IV is 21 songs from 2007’s Easy Tiger sessions, supplanting that album’s wired folk rock with a blend of punk head rush, New Wave twitch, metal crunch and hippie noodling. "The Crystal Skull" is Morrissey with a girlfriend; "Ultraviolet […]”
Jacksonville City Nights
“Lately Ryan Adams has been revisiting the country rock of his early career: first with Cold Roses, the two-disc set Adams and his band the Cardinals put out just a few months ago; and now on Jacksonville City Nights, an unadulterated return to form. Nights finds him digging deeper than ever into the genre to […]”
Cold Roses
“At its best, Cold Roses lives between the twin blooms of the Rolling Stones’ "Dead Flowers" and the Grateful Dead’s American Beauty, each of which turned to country music at the start of the Seventies to sustain a counterculture rapidly running out of gas. That sound — exhaustion and transcendence chasing each other round and […]”
III/IV (Bonus Track Version)
“Adams is prolific to a fault, but this collection of outtakes from the sessions that produced 2007's Easy Tiger is better than one might expect.”
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