Ryan Adams announces release of new album 'Prisoner'
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In an exclusive interview with the world's foremost feline talk show host Lil BUB, pinball, comic book, black metal and hardcore enthusiast and multiple-Grammy-nominee-and-zero-winner Ryan Adams confirmed details of his first album of all new original material since 2014's Ryan Adams.
During the intimate and revealing interview--which can be watched below, Adams divulged that the album, titled Prisoner, will be released February 17 on Pax-Am/Blue Note, and previewed and discussed snippets (or "sniplets") of new tracks including first single ‘Do You Still Love Me?’.
"I was reflecting on the different states of desire and what it means to be a prisoner of your own desire," Adams told BUB of the new record's title, later adding, "I felt like I had been robbed of... the most valuable thing in a person's life…Time."
The twelve tracks that make up Prisoner came to Adams over a prolific period stretching back as far as the week his 2014 self-titled album entered the U.S. album chart at a career high of #4. During that run, Adams toured the world, recorded and released both his Live at Carnegie Hall collection and full-album cover of Taylor Swift's 1989, and saw the aforementioned Ryan Adams garner two Grammy nominations - Best Rock Song for ‘Gimme Something Good’ and Best Rock Album - while ‘Gimme Something Good’ became the first vinyl single to go #1 at the Amazon.com music store.
And somehow during this two-year-plus whirlwind, Adams contends Prisoner virtually wrote itself. As he told Lil BUB, "Whatever was going on in me was strong enough that I only had to sit down and this stuff just made itself known."
Ryan Adams' Prisoner track listing is below. The album will be available February 17, 2017 in formats including standard digital, HD digital, 180G vinyl and CD HERE. "Do You Still Love Me?” can be streamed/downloaded HERE.