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A-Details Release Date: Jun 26, 2007; Lead Performance: Ryan Adams; Genre: Alternative Country
Alt-country stars are partying like it's 1999! Just as Wilco's new Sky
Blue Sky is free of the guitar wankery that's defined them this
millennium, frontman Jeff Tweedy's old rival Ryan Adams has reined in those
jam-band tendencies for Easy Tiger, his most concise collection since his 2000
debut. Despite an awful lot of math (in one song, ''Two hearts, one of
them will break...three words is all it takes''; in another, ''It takes
two when it used to take one''), Easy Tiger keeps it simple: beguiling
melodies, an ace band, and Adams' elastic tenor. A-
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