Cold Roses by Ryan Adams And The Cardinals

Cold Roses, released May 3, 2005, was Ryan Adams' sixth studio album and his first with the Cardinals, the band he'd put together the year before and named after his high school football team. It was also the first of 3 albums he released that year, and it's the sprawling one: the whole thing could squeeze onto a single disc, but it came out as a double, packaged to look like an old vinyl LP.

That vintage feel runs through the music too. This is loose, rangy alt-country with room to breathe, with Neal Casal and J.P. Bowersock on guitars, Catherine Popper on bass, Brad Pemberton on percussion, and the steel of Cindy Cashdollar and Jon Graboff weeping around the edges. "Let It Ride" and "Magnolia Mountain" are the ones that stuck, and the record sold 159,000 copies in the States.

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