Track Listing

1. Goodnight Rose
2. Two
3. Everybody Knows
4. Halloweenhead
5. Oh My God, Whatever, Etc.
6. Tears Of Gold
7. The Sun Also Sets
8. Off Broadway
9. Pearls On A String
10. Rip Off
11. Two Hearts
12. These Girls
13. I Taught Myself How To Grow Old
14. Nobody Listens to Silence

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5193 in Music
• Released on: 2007-06-25

Amazon.co.uk Review
Easy Tiger, Ryan Adams's ninth solo studio album, is a return to form in every way. He's already shown that he can bash out three albums in one year--not to mention the hilarious fake hip-hop records posted for free on his Web site--and that he can sound as much like the Grateful Dead as he wants to in his constant subsequent touring. Backed once again by Neal Casal's band the Cardinals, Adams synthesizes and refines his approach to smooth, gorgeous country-pop. "Tears of Gold" is one of the best songs he's written in ages, while "Two" is a slowly percolating, sweet little number that recalls Sean Hayes in its soulful folksiness (someone named Sheryl Crow accompanies Adams on vocals). One of the greatest treats of this languorous, twangy album is the subtle ways that genre gets played with. "I Taught Myself How to Grow Old" is the best Harvest outtake Neil Young never wrote, while the treated, synth-sounding guitar solo on the druggy, chooglin' "Halloween Head" sounds like it comes straight out of Journey. And "The Sun Also Sets" sounds more than a little like Rufus Wainwright covering Fred McDowell's "Write Me a Few of Your Lines." It bursts with enough melodrama as to border on musical theater. But, as is clear on these songs of love and loss, Adams has always been at his best when giving into his most mellow, dramatic side. --Mike McGonigal

Customer Reviews

Sober songs
First, let me say tht this is not Adams'best album. For me, that title belongs to either Gold or Love is Hell.
That said I think that Easy Tiger is one of his most consistent records and there are no fillers or throw-aways. On the other and there are no songs that just knocks everything down - like English Girls Approximately.
But some of th songs stand out as really good songs. "Halloweenhead", "I taught myself hot to grow old" and "Off Broadway".
Let's just hope that next time he will give us more classics and thereby reach the 5 stars again.

Adams finds his quality control button
Although the highs of his past three albums (Cold Roses, Jacksonville City Nights, 29) were very high indeed, there was a feeling there was a great single album to be had there. With an abundance of talent, Adams gives the impression of being a songwriting machine, but unfortunately all those songs shouldn't all be put out!

Thankfully, Easy Tiger is a return to the standard set by solo debut Heartbreaker, with a great melody never far away on this album (Two, Everybody Knows, Two Hearts). It has that country-rock/Americana feel Adams' reputation always seems to allude to but is never really heard on recent albums (either straight country on Jacksonville or a mish-mash of alt-country on Cold Roses). And as always, something that Adams fans secretly love about him, is how meloncholy his songs are never afraid to be (I Taught Myself How To Grow Old).

Definitely recommended for people new to Adams as well as those who had lost their patience with him (though if you ask me, 29 is among his best).

Best since Gold
For me, this is the closest ryan has come to reaching the heights of Gold, it is certainly his most commercial offering since then and is full of great tunes, the differnce for me with this album is that it took me a bit longer to get into than previous recordings but now that i have i am once again truely appreciating the genius of the man, it is a definite 5 star album and for me is a huge improvement on other recent release. Adams has a quality that is hard to define, only a select few others have such a talent and it's good to see that he is fulfilling it and making the most of it.