3:23
Cold Roses, 2005
Written by Ryan Adams, JP Bowersock, Cindy Cashdollar, Brad Pemberton and Catherine Popper
Adams is here in full country mode, light on the alt-, with the twang and the pedal steel and the lyrics all about the Tennessee and the Cumberland, and drinking and fucking up ("Loaded like a sailor / Tumbling off a ferry boat / I was at the bar till three"). The band is crackerjack, and the melody is sweet, with nice old-time Western guitar flourishes. It's a fine song, and I like it, but Adams' simple lyrics and nice but bland voice simple don't get me here the way, say, the Old 97's and Son Volt do.
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