Rising from the Ashes: Ryan Adams' 15 Albums Post-Media Backlash! 

I’ve been a working musician for many years, Ryan Adams is one of the talented musician/songwriters of our time. I still find new stuff from him. He’s amazing solo act is beyond amazing. He is brutally honest about his drinking and it’s hard not to like this guy.

This guy is probably one of the most talented artists of our time. I basically plead with people who o listen to him.

I’m a huge Ryan Adams fan … thank you for providing great context!

The rock and pop behemoths of the past that still make loads of money for the industry have got away with way worse… Ryan was somewhat unfairly scapegoated. Glad you made this video, thank you.

He played for 3 1/2 hours a few days ago in Austin. No breaks. Outstanding.

Great video and is 100% correct. I hate what happened to Ryan and this stuff deserves to be heard.

I’m shocked at how much material he has released to date! The dude writes! And he has it! Would love to see him live!

I saw Ryan perform a few nights ago and can honestly say that he is one of the most talented and beautiful musicians I've ever heard. His vocals were perfect. He was funny and great at interacting with the crowd. It was one of the best shows I've ever seen. We weren't allowed to take photos or videos during the show, which really allowed you to just focus on the music.

I saw Ryan in concert shortly before the pandemic. It was a great mix of electric and acoustic songs. Super talented and it's a shame he never got the recognition and fame his music deserves.

Thank you for making this video! It needed to be done!

Very well said. He seems to inspire such hatred, it's very unfair. He's the most talented songwriter of a generation and gets no recognition for it. Because he doesn't play the game.

His cover of ‘Wonderwall’ by Oasis is heartbreakingly beautiful. Noel Gallagher himself says Adams’ version is the one it should have always been and tends to play that style of the song when doing his own solo live shows. A great artist, true talent and someone who truly should have been bigger (in terms of mainstream success etc) than he’s been. Obviously not to be confused with Bryan…

Thank you, Music Mentions. Great (brief) review of one of the most important songwriters of our time. One day, the world will look back from its post-modernist perch and say to itself," Damn, look at all the good i've missed."

Ive been a huge Ryan Adams fan since Heartbreaker and recently I've been enjoying these new albums. I get why some have no time for RA, it sounds like his behaviour was awful. But the hypocrisy is that so many other 'legendary' artists are guilty of similar or much worse. So if it applies to him, then the mainstream media should apply it to all these artists. But then they'd have nobody to review and write about! It shows the strength of RA's music and the loyalty of his fanbase that he can still put out and sell great albums, with so little mainstream support.

I have no words when it comes to this story. He’s one of the best ever, everything comes so effortlessly to him, it’s good he’s writing again but that lack of release schedule & no hype/ pr or band tours to back it all up it frustrating to watch as a fan. He could’ve been abit smarter about re launching his career, he still has a massive fan base that would support him. Hopefully there’s another full band tour in the U.K. at some stage

Folks let's reshare this great video, Ryan has moved on, he's sober, few songs on the new albums are touching as he reflects on his past. Star sign is on his top 5 of all times albums, no questions asked, really enjoying basically all his most recent production mentioned in the video. He's great.

Glad I watched this as wasn’t aware of so many albums in recent years. Such a prolific songwriter! I’ll be checking these out - have been keen on Ryan Adams for a long time, really love his ‘Rock & Roll’ album from back in his heyday. Thanks for this Paul (also didn’t know anything about the allegations etc). Great video 👍👍

100% right on! Spineless mainstream music media 😂 Well said sir! Ryan Adams’ music is amazing. Music fans are missing out on this talented singer/songwriter.

Great take. Thank you! Will be following your channel.

All time best artist in my lifetime. Every single album he has ever released has been amazing it’s to hard to say which one I like the best. Every other group artist have their great albums and then not so great albums. Not Ryan. He is consistently outstanding. There is no one else like him.

Thank you for doing this it was well needed.

Thank you for the review, huge RA fan, relieved to see talk here about proportional response, agreed all around. I hope to catch him on tour now, he's a genius. Thank you!!

Hey thanks for doing this video! As a massive Ryan fan and certainly someone who favours redemption and conversation over this pathetic cancel culture, I hope this gives people the chance to discover more of his amazing music and/or a platform to talk about the issues. The blanket death sentence and lack of any Ryan acknowledgment simply blows my mind.

Thanks for taking the time to make this video. I've loved him since Whiskeytown!

Thank you! One of my favorite artist of all time! We were both born the same year too!

Hi Paul, Thank you for advocating for Mr. Adams, who is truly a gifted musician, gifting the rest of us with his creations. Cancel culture is such an ugly cancer, and is so destructive when combined with sick, mob-minded masses. It’s often been said, “never meet your heros.” For good reason, as Our expectations of what people “should be” are often, if not always, misplaced and overestimated. Especially when it comes to people of high notoriety and extraordinary accomplishments. Im all for letting people be, forgiving each other our humanity, and cherishing the wonderful works of creation, be they at the hands of saints or of assholes. Peace and love, and long live Ryan Adams and his music.

Damn man. I really appreciate the Ryan update. It’s nothing short of tragic, what happened to him. Ive been a big fan for a long time, but lost touch last few years. To my pleasant surprise I now have 15 albums to geek out to for 2024! Subscribe!

Thank you for your work to shine some light on Ryan's music!

Great video! A must watch for those who may have been understandably “out of the loop” due to the lack of mainstream press coverage. So nice to see some positive reviews of his latest albums. It should be noted that almost all of the recordings that make up the post 2019 album releases were from 2014-2018 so for the most part he hasn’t recorded anything new, but considering for how long he’s mentioned on Instagram about all these unreleased songs it’s great to finally hear them. And I agree with your take that the Dylan cover album was the best of the 3. Half of it beats even the Dylan originals! He really brought out the emotion in those songs.

Best American songwriter alive today, so freaking versatile, can write any type of song, and a great guitar player. So many musicians wish they had half the talent he possesses, a lot of mediocre bands and singers get more accolades that pale in comparison. Cancel culture is the worst, thanks for highlighting these, if you look around, the reviews are almost non existent.

My favorite songwriter. Unfortunately his personality and social media tantrums turn a lot of people off. If he was 100% sane he probably wouldnt be as successful and prolific however.

About time someone says it like it is. Well done

Thank you for this! I've always liked Ryan Adams

They tried to bury...over his past relationship issues! His ex basically said he was mean to her. But there are always two sides to problems in relationships and this was his private life. You would have think he beat her the way people turned on him or even worse but he was "mean"..we live in a very sad and pitiful time. Imagine holding every human to this level of scrutiny...we might all be out of a job and running from mobs of witch hunters. Beware

Thanks! Ryans great! Enjoyed his shows in Federal Way and Vancouver last year. Still has it. Just profound.

he's on fire on latest 5 albums

Absolutely the best! D.R.A. For life!

Trial by Twitter. Always a willing person to come out and try and destroy someone so they can get a minute of attention for victimhood. Guy did nothing to deserve the wrath.

Thank you for talking about this.

thank you sir!!

Good take. Imagine if John Lennon/Beatles (no pun intended) or Dylan would have been cancelled based on allegations..

We even agree on the order to begin a full listen.

Yipp, thanks for the great video ❤

Do it . Thanks so much for ignoring crazy cancellation by one of our great artists.

It's amazing how much you just said coincides with what I've been saying since the releases. Much appreciated post.

Strange that Mandy Moore, that she claimed that Ryan somehow hurt her music career, that she has done nothing interesting musically since their divorce even though she has become a famous actress. Perhaps she was trying to use Adams for his music chops to re-establish her music career and it didn’t work out?

well said!

Agree 100% with this. So many great songs over the last 4 years. Prisoners Live was recorded on his acoustic tour (I’m guessing various venues through the USA, Canada, UK & Europe in 2022/2023). I think The keyboards were overdubbed by Daniel Clarke from the recent Cardinals line up)

Thanks for a great, fair review... Ryan Adams is so talented and authentic.

I totally agree that the masses are too lazy to check out the facts behind the headlines. Cancel culture has gone too far. I’m sick of it and it seems people are waking up. It’s a shame because an amazing artist like Ryan will always be followed with the accusations and it pisses me off.

Wow! Thanks for sharing. I used to listen to him a lot back in the day. Had no idea about most of these new albums. I agree…pretty harsh cancelation for accusations.

What happened? he kept and keeps writing amazing songs that continue to inspire us the listeners.

muchas gracias!

Been a fan since Stranger's Almanac

I have loved his music since Whiskeytown, but be honest-he spent years acting out in immature ways. I’ve seen him live several times. He could be great or a drunken insult to paying audiences. He pissed off a lot of people-way before 2019. I’m really glad to hear he’s sober. He’s always been so talented.

Paul, I am aware of these releases. Rock on Ryan 🤘

Well said my man. Ryan Adams deserves redemption like no other artist today. It should be noted that most of these albums, with the exception of the covers albums, were recorded before his “cancellation” and were probably never intended to be released (as is common with previous RA material) and that he was kind of forced to release these as a ways of keeping his career afloat. One of the reasons I can’t wait for RA to have a good label contract again is to see him record something brand new, studio quality, meant for widespread distribution. This guy deserves to be on top again.

A consistent and solid artist. It’s only the covers albums I don’t care so much for. Brilliant talent

This dude just told it like it is - nice to hear. Great video.

The guy has made some great music since then too. This is tragic to me.

True.

So glad to finally hear from other mouth about him!!!! I parted ways with my gf at the time that ryan came up with "Wednesdays". it cured my heart. Greetings from argentina bro!! your channel is great. All amazing albums... does this guy ever get tired of his talent?

My favourite songwriter along with Cornell ❤

He. Is. The. GOAT.

That Prisoners live is outstanding. Probably better than the original.

Excellent video, the solo tours have been killer and HOPING the cardinals song he went to france to write at some point get released. Cardinals Mach III was insane, I've seen every version of the cards

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

I love Ryan’s stuff, always have. He’s a poet and works like a man who has an Adderall problem. I think part of the problem, though, is that Ryan is kind of a-hole. When these allegations surface, people aren’t prone to be gracious when they turn out to be untrue. I personally appreciate him. He’s a man who wants to deal with his demons. But he rubs people the wrong way.

It's interesting what you say about the music press, which I know longer read much. I only recently discovered Ryan Adams, in the last couple of years - I'd made one half-hearted effort years ago when he was still "current". You're right not to minimise the way he behaved towards the women who came forward to speak about him, who we have no reason to disbelieve, at an early point in the metoo movement. As you say, the multiple accusations leave us in little doubt as to what a menace he was, for someone in an intimate relationship with him. I say all this because we are always in difficult territory when discussing art we love by people whose behaviour has been damaging to other people. He is, as far as I can see, the greatest living male purveyor of Americana currently working. There are a whole bunch of great women in that genre as we speak - Courtney Marie Andrews is probably my pick of the lot. But for me Ryan Adams stands pretty much alone among the men. His songs are more distinctive than Jason Isbell's, for example, and there are a whole bunch of great ones from over the years, even if they are spread across many many albums. This is one reason why he's been underappreciated, I think - his best songs are better than anyone's, but the albums themselves are generally a bit patchy. You name some of the great recent songs - then obviously in the past there's "Sylvia Plath", "Broken Anyway", "Lucky Now" and so on. He's versatile, does a whole range of stuff from indie pop that sounds British influenced as well as in the American tradition, country pop and occasionally straight country, and then those seventies singer-songwriter-type pieces like "Everybody Knows" and "Damn Sam". He's so good at capturing romantic yearning, in a voice that is strangely expressive and can do more than you expect it to be able to do on first listen. So many great songs - "Doylestown Girl", "Invisible Riverside", "The Hardest Part", "This House is not For Sale," "When She Smiles", "Shiver and Shake," "Rollercoaster" - often "small" songs that are not trying to make some major statement but occupy their own perfect little space. He's also a great cover artist, as the recently released live versions of "Achin' to Be" and "We Built This City on Rock and Roll" show, as well as the wonderful Taylor Swift 1989 version.

Ever since my head injury I'm a big fan of his music.

As a Listener to Ryan's music since his mid 90s Whiskeytown days I knew once he got famous overnight with his Gold album and got thrown at Elton John it was all going to be downs then up's. When I heard he hooked up with Many Moore I threw my hands up and said that's it unfortunately. Clear example of what famous can do to someone who was never ment for it......

Saw him at Carnegie and will see him soon on his upcoming tour. I agree with the commenter below - he's been a notorious asshole and for decades. And when you rub people the wrong way, they're less likely to forgive/forget. He seems to be sober now and getting his life back on track so hopefully people will forgive and give him another chance. Even if he never has another 'hit', we fans can still enjoy all the tunes he constantly puts out.

I continue to love a lot of his songs and he, like everyone, deserves a shot at redemption. AND I suspect his out-of-proportion punishment is directly related to the fact that he has been a well-known dick back to his Whiskeytown days. He spent 30 years making people angry before giving them the excuse to cancel him. Hopefully time and maturity will let his talents shine again.

I love Sword and Stone!!! And Manhattan in the Rain is amazing and namechecks my home city Sheffield which made me yell out when I first heard it.

Gotta say the biggest crime to music is how Ryan has been silenced. I remember I had tickets for his then upcoming Uk tour a month before the ‘allegations’ dropped. I always said let’s see how this turns out and I was justified to not condemn like the sheep who just see the headlines, we have seen and read from Ryan what transpired. Anyone would think he was the devil himself. I’m gonna rock extra hard on the upcoming tour.

In my opinion, Ryan Adams is up there with the talent level of Dylan or Joanie Mitchell, Neil Young, and several others. Like Dylan, there isn't a song that he's written (and played) that isn't beautifully put together. And telling.

Ryan is the best. I'm from Argentina, he isn't popular here. I knew him when he was playing the opening act on Oasis 2009 tour. Since this moment i couldn't stop hear his music. I can't understand how such a great artist doesn't get the recognition he deserves, and i think he doesn't know what he generate with his music all around the world.

Free Ryan Adams.

Ryan Adams SHOULD BE a household name, but alas, such is the state of affairs, thanks to the "music industry".

In Deutschland ist Ryan nicht so bekannt. Aber danke für diesen Beitrag, den finde ich gut.

Got my ticket for Ryan’s Uk tour in September. The way he’s been treated is disgusting.

Walls is VERY similar to "How soon is now?" damn.

Literally none of the literary greats of history would exist if we canceled them all for bad behavior in the past.

We saw him last May (2023) in Orlando. It was definitely "jammy" - the first 3 songs took 40 minutes. And we had a "Summer of '69" moment (you can find it in the Internet Archives). You would think after all this time Ryan would have a succinct response to that but we got an almost 10 minute diatribe and all the energy was sucked out of the show. It was a weird one. (That tour was documented on the Alive Volume 1 release mentioned in the video.)

DRA 4 Life

I found your video spot on regarding Ryan´s treatment by the mainstream media. I feel privileged for having continued to enjoy his musical output since the cancellation, but it is sad that he doesn't get the recognition he deserves, and sadder still that the audience at large is missing on some of the most beautiful and heatfelt songs of the past 10 years.

I think I only have two real issues with his post accusation “new” releases. He has either lost his inside or outside filter so he is just kinda releasing everything. Which is just way too much material and then when you listen through it all you can find definite gems but it’s just so much material to get through it becomes daunting. The other issue is losing other musicians to play with and his main engineer so just doing literally everything himself, you can hear and feel a notable quality dip in the re wordings from both a playing and production aspect where a lot of it feels like very loose/rough demos. Definitely needs an engineer producer again if anything just to filter and narrow ideas/collections of tunes and at least a proper drummer. Aside from that though, glad he is still doing his thing and has been able to start getting on the road again and finding there is still an audience out there for him. Once the real troubling accusation was cleared, it really boiled down to complaints of him being kind of a jerk and being a bad bf and husband. Which I mean, he has had that rep since the whiskeytown days, so should he have been cancelled for it? No.

I've heard stories about R.A. stopping concerts because people were shouting out requests- and the time he stopped the concert because someboady shouted "Runaway" (a Bryan Adams song) in that instance he wouldn't start playing again until that person was kicked-out of the venue. Fans don't like performers who acts like weenies onstage and I'll bet that the music press will spend their time elsewhere as well...

Close to Ryan Adams as if in a room w/ a friend playing songs to you at Almost Blue Asheville post Whiskeytown. Tour shirts proclaimed Whiskeytown Can Kiss My Ass! Whiskeytown albums are evidence Ryan Adams can mimic or channel if you prefer any style any singer from Hank Williams to Elton John to Women of Classic Country Music. Afterward the small crowd from the small record store basement crossed the street to The Green Man and standing in line to use the head someone asks what did you do... Likely the question was posed because suddenly a dozen or more people had entered the pub and most had headed for the washrooms... so... What did you do? Was over at Almost Blue Records to see Ryan Adams... Was it good? Out of the stall a person yells: "Ryan Adams Sucked" and a moment later Ryan Adams walked out of the stall. It was a wonderful evening. The Human Beings that owned Almost Blue were wonderful... they had owned a record store in Hickory NC previously... late 80's early 90's going in to ask if they'd order an R.E.M. special release or Ummagumma... their kids toddlers playing on the floor... a few years later Asheville... owners kids in college skateboarding... I did appreciate having an independent record store owned by Humans who cared deeply about #Music ... Ryan Adams must have been at Almost Blue in the late 1990's ... I can't believe I was witness to such an intimate performance... like seeing him in a living room. Stellar.

Ryan Adams being canceled is the most ridiculous thing ever and cancel culture in general is just awful more often than not. Ryan is an incredibly gifted artist, but then again his fans and music lovers will know that anyway. Screw the press and f*** music review websites. His music speaks for itself.

Excellent point... I hate the b.s of "Guilty until proven innocent"... This stuff all started when his ex wife Mandy Moore did a TV show interview to promote her book, or whatever it was, and used it as material to draw interest... Could Ryan be an asshole? Yeah, probably... Did he get bit by the same cancel culture and "me too" stuff he peddled up til his controversy? Yeah... Did he get accused of doing stuff that a vast amount of music and movie stars have blatantly done since the beginning? Yeah... Regardless of all that, there was an investigation... nothing came if it. Ryan was immediately dropped and ousted, never having a chance for truth to be determined... He was declared "guilty" by the court of public opinion... not by smoking gun evidence... In Ryan's case, the punishment doesn't fit the crime... How many 80's hair band dudes did 1,000 times worse? The Eagles had a song back in the day called "The king of Hollywood"... go listen to that... This isn't new... Doesn't make it right, but like I already said... the punishment should fit the crime... Hell, listen to all the rap lyrics from the last 30 years... Me Too was canceling Ryan for sexism when WAP was a number one hit... When Kim K, a mother of young children, was publicly releasing nude photoshoots and "breaking the internet"... because she actually adds no value to the world, other than publicly pimping herself out...

Why don’t they mention his entire career is based on my storylines.

I agree that he's an a-hole, but he's made a solid effort to become a better person. IMO that is worth rewarding him as many people that have acted like him just deny it, and keep on being an a-hole.

9:30 Isn't it?

Morgan Fairchild Ryan Adams the only one's to survive me too.

I don't think Ryan Adams was very mainstream to start with. I also don't think Michael Jackson was given a pass.

Why can’t there just be a review rather than once again bring up NYT?

cancel culture at its finest. Ryan fucking rules

This shits nuts. I didn't know a lot of that. Hey folks. Musicians,artists,actors are all tortured souls. If you want the perfect man,you don't marry a rock star. Buyer beware ladies. Ryan Adams has had a reputation for being wild going back to the whiskey town days.

Dude deserves a second chance. Even ex-cons who work at McDonald's or anywhere else get a second chance. Besides, Mandy Moore's success never depended on Ryan Adams. I believe women but there's little evidence. Did anyone take this guy to court? Cancel culture is so dumb at this point. Ryan Adams is an indie king and has had some moderate commercial success but damn... you would think someone like Ryan Adams would be able to still have a career with all these accusations being a lesser known artist to this world. You mentioned Michael Jackson ( now that dude is global and with all the accusations still has a career and makes zero sense, not that I'd wish that on anyone's legacy but I still don't understand the cancel culture rulebook).