Ryan Adams: iTunes Session

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Ryan Adams:
iTunes Session
(iTunes)
[Rating: 3 stars]

The usually hyper-productive Adams has been coasting recently, with only three releases in the past four years. Here he stays solo as he did on his acclaimed 2011 tour, strumming an acoustic guitar and singing like he means it. He revisits a few tunes from 2000’s Heartbreaker, one of his Whiskeytown nuggets, some from his newest release and most notably an emotionally trenchant cover of Bob Mould’s “Black Sheets of Rain.” The hushed ambiance of the immaculate recording captures every nuance. Even at only eight tunes clocking in under a half hour, this is a sincere, heartfelt and often riveting performance that might bring those who had lost the Adams map, due to his sheer glut of eclectic and sometimes lackluster material, back to the fold.

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