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Quintessential Album Tuesday :: Cardinology :: Ryan Adams & The Cardinals

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Cardinology :: Ryan Adams & The Cardinals Quintessential Album Tuesday A Little History: Cardinology is the tenth studio album by Ryan Adams, and fourth album with his backing band, The Cardinals, released on October 28, 2008. The album completed Adams’ contract with Lost Highway Records, and marks his final recording session with The Cardinals. Following the album’s release and subsequent tour, Adams disbanded the band and entered a self-imposed hiatus until the release of Ashes & Fire, in 2011. According to Adams, the album “[is] about the moment when you recognize the difference between ego and pride and your sense of service to your friends, family or yourself. Once you’ve … Continue reading Quintessential Album Tuesday :: Cardinology :: Ryan Adams & The Cardinals

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Ryan Adams & The Cardinals :: Cardinology :: My Favorite Albums

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Ryan Adams & the Cardinals :: Cardinology (2008) At the core of who I am, and at the center of my musical soul, are a handful of artists, bands and musicians that are so intrinsic, so vital, so overwhelmingly part of who I am, how I see the world, how I feel that they almost feel a part of my DNA. In many ways I could list all of their albums as “my favorites“, and will probably end up doing just that eventually, so do not say I did not warn you. Ryan Adams is one of those artists, musicians, … Continue reading Ryan Adams & The Cardinals :: Cardinology :: My Favorite Albums

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It moves like a Summer breeze :: songs and prose

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Pen pressed to paper as she writes the other side of what happened, the words not sung, but remembered. Faded photographic images with criss-crossed marks at the sides. Once upon a time they danced on rooftops, and once upon a time they still believed. There is old poetry locked in strong boxes, hope chests some would call them; moth ball heavy and nearly forgotten. In the late afternoons she turns each page over in her well-worn hands, too far in the past to bring tears now, though she misses them, her tears. Now she even misses the pain of loving … Continue reading It moves like a Summer breeze :: songs and prose

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What we miss :: song of the day

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“You’ll see when you move out it just sort of happens one day, one day and it’s just gone, and you can never get it back. It’s like you get homesick for a place that doesn’t exist. I mean it’s like this rite of passage, you know. You won’t have this feeling again until you create a new idea of home for yourself, you know, for your kids, for the family you start, it’s like a cycle or something. I miss the idea of it. Maybe that’s all family really is. a group of people who miss the same imaginary … Continue reading What we miss :: song of the day