Rating:

Jacksonville City Nights is the second of three planned Ryan Adams released this calendar year, following the excellent Harvest-era Neil Young styled Cold Roses. Ever since Gold failed to make Ryan Adams a star, he’s buried himself in genre exercises, with mixed success. JCN is no exception, as a more straight-ahead country album than any in Adams’ catalogue. Make no mistake; this is not alt. country-rock like Whiskeytown or Cold Roses. This is beer-soaked, sad-sack-of-shit country music with enough twang and heartache to last a lifetime. The Cardinals again provide a great backing band, helping to keep the album loose and organic, receiving writing credit on every song. This isn’t a classic by any stretch, but it’s certainly solid.

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– Kevin

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