Ryan Adams Gold CD

Initial pressings of GOLD will include a limited edition bonus disc featuring five songs.
Personnel includes: Ryan Adams (vocals, acoustic guitar, banjo, piano); Ethan Johns (acoustic & electric guitars, Chamberlain strings, Hammond B-3 organ, vibraphone, drums, congas); Bucky Baxter (steel guitar); Richard Causon (strings, piano); Kamasi Washington (saxophone); Benchmont Tench (piano, Hammond B-3 organ); Chris Stills (bass, background vocals); Jennifer Condos (bass); Adam Duritz, Julianna Raye, C.C. White, Rob McDonald, Keith Hunter (background vocals).
Recorded at the Sunset Sound Factory, Hollywood, California.
GOLD was nominated for the 2002 Grammy Award for Best Rock Album. "New York, New York" was nominated for the 2002 Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance.
Personnel includes: Ryan Adams (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, banjo, piano); Ethan Johns (acoustic, electric & 12-string guitars, mandolin, celeste, electric piano, harmonium, Hammond B-3 organ, strings, vibraphone, drums, percussion); Chris Stills (acoustic & electric guitars, bass, background vocals); Bucky Baxter (steel guitar); Rami Jaffi (accordion); Kamasi Washington (saxophone); Andre Carter (trumpet); Benmont Tench (piano, Hammond B-3 organ); Richard Causon (piano, strings); Jennifer Condos, Milo De Cruz (bass); Rob McDonald, C.C. White, Juliana Raye, Adam Duritz (background vocals).
Recorded at the Sunset Sound Factory, Hollywood, California.
GOLD was nominated for the 2002 Grammy Award for Best Rock Album. "New York, New York" was nominated for the 2002 Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance.
This is a (multi-channel) Super Audio CD playable only on Super Audio CD players.
Personnel includes: Ryan Adams (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, banjo, piano); Ethan Johns (acoustic, electric & 12-string guitars, mandolin, celeste, electric piano, harmonium, Hammond B-3 organ, strings, vibraphone, drums, percussion); Chris Stills (acoustic & electric guitars, bass, background vocals); Bucky Baxter (steel guitar); Rami Jaffi (accordion); Kamasi Washington (saxophone); Andre Carter (trumpet); Benmont Tench (piano, Hammond B-3 organ); Richard Causon (piano, strings); Jennifer Condos, Milo De Cruz (bass); Rob McDonald, C.C. White, Juliana Raye, Adam Duritz (background vocals).
Recorded at the Sunset Sound Factory, Hollywood, California.
GOLD was nominated for the 2002 Grammy Award for Best Rock Album. "New York, New York" was nominated for the 2002 Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance.
Personnel: Ryan Adams (vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, banjo, piano); C.C. White (vocals, background vocals); Ethan Johns (guitar, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, 12-string guitar, slide guitar, mandocello, mandolin, celesta, electric piano, harmonium, chamberlin, vibraphone, drums, congas, background vocals); Chris Stills (acoustic guitar, acoustic 12-string guitar, electric guitar, background vocals); Bucky Baxter (steel guitar); Kamasi Washington (saxophone); Andre "Big Dre" Carter (trumpet); Benmont Tench, Richard Causon (piano); Adam Duritz, Julianna Raye (background vocals).
Audio Mixer: Ethan Johns.
Recording information: Sunset sound Factory.
Photographer: James Minchin.
One would think that being Ryan Adams would be a pretty good deal at the time of this album's release; he had a major-label deal, critics were in love with him, he got to date Winona Ryder and Alanis Morissette, Elton John went around telling everyone he was a genius, and his record company gave him carte blanche to do whatever he wanted. But to listen to Gold, Adams' first solo album for his big-league sponsors at Lost Highway, one senses that there are about a dozen other musicians Adams would love to be, and nearly all of them were at their peak in the early to mid-'70s. Adams' final album with Whiskeytown, Pneumonia, made it clear that he was moving beyond the scruffy alt-country of his early work, and Gold dEntertainment Weekly (9/28/01, pp.71-2) - "...This sprawling tour through American music...is like a dinner full of comfort food..." - Rating: B+
Q (1/03, p.54) - Included in Q Magazine's "100 Greatest Albums Ever"
Q (10/01, p.117) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Adam's freewheeling nature remains irresistible. He's a magpie, flitting between people, places and influences with equal enthusiasm..."
CMJ (9/17/01, p.4) - "...Sparkles with its creator's shaky roots on the West Coast...with a slow, syrupy pace..."
No Depression (9-10/01, pp.129-30) - "...These songs are filled with hot emotion....There are more hooks here than at a pirate's convention, and Adams' gift for melody is so strong it's almost scary..."
Mojo (Publisher) (1/02, p.69) - Ranked #9 in Mojo's "Best [40] Albums of 2001".
Mojo (Publisher) (10/01, p.114) - "...A beautiful trip..."