...by Ryan Adams & The Cardinals. It isn't a patch on COLD ROSES. In fact, it sounds like a bunch of tracks that could've been left off their superior group debut. They're still a great sounding unit, but Adam's much vaunted prolific song writing output lets them down badly this time. In fact, it's a bad state of affairs when the best tune on the collection is a cover of the old Willie Nelson/Elvis Presley/pick a random club singer classic Always On My Mind.
This is part two of an alleged trilogy of albums Adams intends to release this year, though time is running rather short if he intends to release another in 2005. COLD ROSES was packaged and spun as being a Grateful Dead/CSNY kinda deal, this one physically looks like an early seventies Buck Owen sorta record, with more of a honky tonk, Bakersfield, songwriting tone. Starting to wonder what the third one's going to look and sound like.