Cold RosesRyan Adams & The Cardinals · 2004

pitchfork

7.2

“The prickly singer/songwriter is a little more country than rock'n'roll on this 2xCD effort, which was recorded with a backup group called the Cardinals and features vocal contributions from Rachel Yamagata.”

rollingstone

7.0

“At its best, Cold Roses lives between the twin blooms of the Rolling Stones’ "Dead Flowers" and the Grateful Dead’s American Beauty, each of which turned to country music at the start of the Seventies to sustain a counterculture rapidly running out of gas. That sound — exhaustion and transcendence chasing each other round and […]”