History Music / RyanAdams

After three more albums (one unofficially, the other two officially) with the Cardinals, he broke up the band in 2009, married Music/MandyMoore, released some BlackMetal tracks as "Werewolph," and some generic HardRock ones as "Sleazy Handshake." The next year (2010) he announced that he would try yet again to release a large number of entirely new studio albums; one (''Orion'') is a ScienceFiction HeavyMetal ConceptAlbum that drew criticism, confusion, and general anger from the music press; ''Cardinals III/IV'' (recorded quite some time earlier) was released in 2010, and we're still awaiting ''Blackhole''. Another solo album, ''Ashes & Fire'', was released in late 2011. While fans are appreciative of the amount of work he's doing, a lot would prefer him to ''focus'' and come out with a solid album for once (most of his albums suffer from high levels of AlbumFiller). He then proceeded to confuse everyone by releasing a cover ''album'', covering, of all things, Music/TaylorSwift's ''1989'' in his own style.

After three more albums (one unofficially, the other two officially) with the Cardinals, he broke up the band in 2009, married Music/MandyMoore, released some BlackMetal tracks as "Werewolph," and some generic HardRock ones as "Sleazy Handshake." The next year (2010) he announced that he would try yet again to release a large number of entirely new studio albums; one (''Orion'') is a ScienceFiction HeavyMetal ConceptAlbum that drew criticism, confusion, and general anger from the music press; ''Cardinals III/IV'' (recorded quite some time earlier) was released last year and we're still awaiting ''Blackhole''. Another solo album, ''Ashes & Fire'', was released in late 2011. While fans are appreciative of the amount of work he's doing, a lot would prefer him to ''focus'' and come out with a solid album for once (most of his albums suffer from high levels of AlbumFiller). He then proceeded to confuse everyone by releasing a cover ''album'', covering, of all things, Music/TaylorSwift's ''1989'' in his own style.

He spent his first years as anything of significance as a member of the alt-country band Whiskeytown, where he became known in alt-country circuits for straightforward but deep lyrics in the tradition of Gram Parsons and his ilk. After Whiskeytown split up (thanks in no small part to Adams himself), he went solo, releasing the emphatically country ''Heartbreaker'' in 2000. A year later, he had the remarkable good fortune of releasing ''Gold'', opening with a track entitled "New York, New York" two weeks after [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror 9/11]]. (The song was in fact about one of his girlfriends; he has a habit of referring to women in his songs by their city of origin) causing that song's video -- which prominently featured the World Trade Center towers and was dedicated to those who lost their lives on that day -- to get massive MTV airplay. He produced a few good albums after that, including ''Love is Hell," which included a cover of Music/{{Oasis}}' "Wonderwall" so good that NoelGallagher himself felt [[RetCanon compelled to use it]] until his brother Liam forced him to stop.

He spent his first years as anything of significance as a member of the alt-country band Whiskeytown, where he became known in alt-country circuits for straightforward but deep lyrics in the tradition of GramParsons and his ilk. After Whiskeytown split up (thanks in no small part to Adams himself), he went solo, releasing the emphatically country ''Heartbreaker'' in 2000. A year later, he had the remarkable good fortune of releasing ''Gold'', opening with a track entitled "New York, New York" two weeks after [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror 9/11]]. (The song was in fact about one of his girlfriends; he has a habit of referring to women in his songs by their city of origin) causing that song's video -- which prominently featured the World Trade Center towers and was dedicated to those who lost their lives on that day -- to get massive MTV airplay. He produced a few good albums after that, including ''Love is Hell," which included a cover of Music/{{Oasis}}' "Wonderwall" so good that NoelGallagher himself felt [[RetCanon compelled to use it]] until his brother Liam forced him to stop.

He spent his first years as anything of significance as a member of the alt-country band Whiskeytown, where he became known in alt-country circuits for straightforward but deep lyrics in the tradition of GramParsons and his ilk. After Whiskeytown split up (thanks in no small part to Adams himself), he went solo, releasing the emphatically country ''Heartbreaker'' in 2000. A year later, he had the remarkable good fortune of releasing ''Gold'', opening with a track entitled "New York, New York" two weeks after [[TheWarOnTerror 9/11]]. (The song was in fact about one of his girlfriends; he has a habit of referring to women in his songs by their city of origin) causing that song's video -- which prominently featured the World Trade Center towers and was dedicated to those who lost their lives on that day -- to get massive MTV airplay. He produced a few good albums after that, including ''Love is Hell," which included a cover of Music/{{Oasis}}' "Wonderwall" so good that NoelGallagher himself felt [[RetCanon compelled to use it]] until his brother Liam forced him to stop.