Ryan Adams: Country Music and its Alternatives
Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, 12 May 2001
Ryan Adams was alt.countrys brightest hope – the new Gram Parsons, no less – till his band Whiskeytown unravelled. Then he veered off the No Depression highway and made a raw, rambunctious solo record called Heartbreaker. Now the third Whiskeytown album Pneumonia – a victim of Universals unceremonious dumping of the Outpost label – is out on Nashvilles new Lost Highway imprint.
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