Monday, June 18, 2007

Ryan Adams cleans up, goes emo

Yesterday's New York Times featured an article on my second favorite Raleigh expat, Ryan Adams.

The story chronicles his recent battle with substance abuse and the writer also spent a bit of time hanging out in the studio as Adams recorded songs for Easy Tiger.

Here's one of my favorite snippets from the story, just for the mental image it provides.

"Mr. Adams stood at the microphone, played a blistering riff and screeched a placeholder vocal: “This is where the verse is gonna go/And it’s gonna be emo.”

“Obviously keeping up with him is a big part of the job,” said Jamie Candiloro, who produced the album.

Um, yeah, no kidding. You can hear all the non-emo-goodness yourself when Easy Tiger is out in stores on June 26.

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