Wonder Pile

Heartbreaker opens with an argument about a Morrissey song before the band kicks into the sloppy and rollicking “To Be Young (Is to Be Sad, Is to Be High),” and certainly the gloomster’s self-referential sadness hangs over Ryan Adams’s songs. But Adams, the notoriously raucous frontman for the defunct Whiskeytown, is a country boy at heart if not in attitude, so there is a lingering pastoral beauty that imbues the album with a happy sweetness as well. That, along with Ryan’s expressive, gravelly voice (equal parts Paul Westerberg and Merle Haggard), gives Heartbreaker enduring power. –Tod Nelson

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As featured in the movie “I Am Sam”, this is a rightious cover of the Beatles classic “Stawberry Fields Forever”. The Ben Harper DVD Pleasure & Pain” features an in the studio look at the recording of this song. The song can be found on itunes or the original Motion Picture soundtrack to “I am Sam.” The soundtrack is with out a doubt my favorite collection of Beatles cover songs organized into on project. I am going to be posting a few more songs from this album soon, so make a request, or get undressed..and with that…as always we provide a direct link to the best deals on consumer media, formats that may include Mp3, CD, Vinyle, CD-Rom, and DVD. With that “Let me take you down cause I’m going to…”

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