“All the songs had to work completely and honestly by themselves on acoustic guitar or on piano. If they didn’t, they weren’t worth putting on the record.”
~Ryan Adams (about ‘Gold’)“[Gold is] me not buying my own bullshit for two seconds.”
~Ryan Adams
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From Wikipedia:
| Released | September 25, 2001 |
|---|---|
| Recorded | The Sound Factory (Hollywood, California) |
| Genre | Rock, alternative country |
| Length | 70:26 |
| Label | Lost Highway |
| Producer | Ethan Johns |
Gold is the second studio album by Ryan Adams, released September 25, 2001 on Lost Highway Records. The album remains Adams’ best-selling album, certifying gold in the UK and going on to sell 364,000 copies in the U.S. and 812,000 worldwide. Adams noted that “with Gold, I was trying to prove something to myself. I wanted to invent a modern classic.”
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