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  9887848CD  £4.00

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Lost Highway

Ryan Adams

29

America Canada on his third release of a most prolific year ryan adams takes a break from his band the cardinals to fashion an introspective song cycle with strippeddown arrangements focused on acoustic guitar or solo piano after the propulsive selfmythologizing title track opens the album in brazen fashion forging an unlikely bond of comparison between john lennon's plastic ono band and the early '70s grateful dead much of the rest of '29' finds adam's at his dreamiest the reveries of 'strawberry wine' and 'elizabeth you were born to play that part' and most rapturously romantic the aching falsetto on the lovesick 'starlite diner' 'carolina rain' produced by his long time on off collaborator ethan jones the albums hails back to the simplostic and mind blowing sounds of 'heartbreaker'