{"id":4586,"date":"2012-02-03T17:49:24","date_gmt":"2012-02-04T00:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=4586"},"modified":"2012-02-03T17:49:24","modified_gmt":"2012-02-04T00:49:24","slug":"ryan-adams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/02\/ryan-adams\/","title":{"rendered":"RYAN ADAMS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/RYAN-ADAMS-M-Review-November2011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4675\" title=\"RYAN-ADAMS-M-Review-November2011\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/RYAN-ADAMS-M-Review-November2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/RYAN-ADAMS-M-Review-November2011.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/RYAN-ADAMS-M-Review-November2011-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>R<\/strong><strong>YAN ADAMS<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong><em>Ashes &amp; Fire<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Pax-Am\/Capitol]<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Adams recently took a two-year break from releasing new music, an eternity for a prolific singer and songwriter who put out 10 albums in the preceding eight years. Apparently refreshed, Adams returns with 11 songs that are among the best he\u2019s written. That\u2019s saying something given the sheer volume of Adams\u2019 catalog, but he\u2019s rarely equaled the poignant feeling of these tunes. His vivid lyrics evoke images as easily as they summon the colors and abstract shapes of deeply felt emotion\u2014melancholy, mostly, on the wistful \u201cLucky Now\u201d or the wrenching opener, \u201cDirty Rain,\u201d but sometimes he\u2019s quietly, powerfully self-possessed, as on closer \u201cI Love You but I Don\u2019t Know What to Say.\u201d Norah Jones and Benmont Tench help flesh out the acoustic-based songs in a style that has become an Adams trademark: almost country, kind of rock \u2019n\u2019 roll and 100 percent soul. \u2013ED<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RYAN ADAMS Ashes &amp; Fire [Pax-Am\/Capitol] Ryan Adams recently took a two-year break from releasing new music, an eternity for a prolific singer and songwriter who put out 10 albums in the preceding eight years. Apparently refreshed, Adams returns with 11 songs that are among the best he\u2019s written. That\u2019s saying something given the sheer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,2957,2864,2958,2956],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4586"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4586"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4674,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4586\/revisions\/4674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}