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Heartbreaker
Rock · 2000 · 15 tracks

Heartbreaker

A definitive document of post-breakup isolation. Sparse acoustic arrangements, whiskey-soaked vocals, and a harmonica that sounds like it's bleeding.

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The ultimate 'sad-guy-with-a-guitar' record that actually earns its tears.

A bruised, whiskey-soaked meditation on loss that feels like a private conversation at 4am.

Heartbreaker · vs · Ryan Adams
Raw+1.7σ

The vocals lean notably further into raw than the rest of the catalogue.

Tracklist · 15 Tracks
01
(Argument with David Rawlings Concerning Morrissey)
0:38
02
To Be Young (Is to Be Sad, Is to Be High)
3:04
03
My Winding Wheel
3:13
04
AMY
3:46
05
Oh My Sweet Carolina
4:57
06
Bartering Lines
4:00
07
Call Me on Your Way Back Home
3:10
08
Damn, Sam (I Love a Woman That Rains)
2:09
09
Come Pick Me Up
5:18
10
To Be the One
3:01
11
Why Do They Leave?
3:39
12
Shakedown on 9th Street
2:53
13
Don’t Ask for the Water
2:56
14
In My Time of Need
5:39
15
Sweet Lil Gal (23rd/1st)
3:39
Moments Worth Waiting For
The raw, desperate harmonica solo that tears through the middle of Come Pick Me Up.
Emmylou Harris providing a ghostly, ethereal harmony on the chorus of Oh My Sweet Carolina.
The sudden, ramshackle energy shift into the garage-rock stomp of Shakedown on 9th Street.
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