{"id":5626,"date":"2017-03-23T14:54:11","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T18:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/?p=5626"},"modified":"2017-04-12T12:34:44","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T16:34:44","slug":"ryan-adams-prisoner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/ryan-adams-prisoner\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Adams <br>Prisoner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ryan_adams-prisoner.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5627\" src=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ryan_adams-prisoner.jpg\" alt=\"Ryan Adams, Prisoner\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ryan_adams-prisoner.jpg 250w, https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ryan_adams-prisoner-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>Since leaving Whiskeytown to go solo, Ryan Adams has been hard to pin down. At first it seemed he would go the expected acoustic singer-songwriter route, but then he made some loud rock records. From there, he went back to leaning alt-country, but then released a punk record, formed another band, and put out a metal record, before going solo again. Then there was the time he released three full-length records in one year. It seems he has the mercurial wandering of a musically restless spirit. Further proof came when he covered Taylor Swift\u2019s <i>1989<\/i> album. Though it seemed like a joke at first, Adams\u2019 version transcended what could have been a one-note premise and gave Swift\u2019s songs a nuanced re-imagining. It also reintroduced Adams to a larger audience whose attention may have been diverted elsewhere since his initial debut. Thus with a few more eyeballs on him, Adams has returned with his 16th full-length record, <i>Prisoner<\/i> (Pax AM\/Blue Note Records).<\/p>\n<p>Here, Adams plays it pretty straight. There are country touches, and he rocks out at times only to quiet things down on some acoustic numbers. Elsewhere, there are some songs that seem indebted to Bruce Springsteen. From the quiet break-up post-mortem of \u201cShiver and Shake\u201d to the piano and sax interplay in the closing moments of \u201cTightrope,\u201d it\u2019s impossible not to hear the influence of the E Street troubadour.<\/p>\n<p>Lyrically, it\u2019s easy to surmise that <i>Prisoner<\/i> is a break-up record, as evidenced by the opener \u201cDo You Still Love Me?\u201d However, Adams seems less interested in the what and why of his failed romance, and more on how to live in the aftermath. He\u2019s passed the anger stage and is working on acceptance. In less nimble hands, the album could be a real slog, but Adams and his crack band\u2019s light touch lifts the material where needed, lays back when it\u2019s time for breathing room, and metaphorically drops to one knee dramatically when it\u2019s appropriate. Who knows where Adams may end up next, but at this moment <i>Prisoner<\/i> ranks pretty high.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since leaving Whiskeytown to go solo, Ryan Adams has been hard to pin down. 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