Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - Cardinology flac album

Cardinology is the tenth studio album by Ryan Adams, and fourth album with his backing band The Cardinals, released on October 28, 2008. The album completed Adams' contract with Lost Highway Records, and marks his final recording session with The Cardinals. Following the album's release and subsequent tour, Adams disbanded the band and entered a self-imposed hiatus until the release of Ashes & Fire, in 2011.

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Although the album's title may lead you to believe that this is a compilation, Cardinology is, in fact, a new album! Like its predecessor Easy Tiger, which TIME magazine hailed as "a career breakthrough," Cardinology is a concise and focused collection of twelve unadorned gems. The Cardinals are: Ryan Adams (vocals, guitar, keys), Neal Casal (guitar, vocals), Chris Feinstein (bass, vocals), Jon Graboff (pedal steel, vocals) and Brad Pemberton (drums).

People have been feeling disappointed by Ryan Adams for almost as long as they've been liking him. When his band Whiskeytown leaped to the fore of the then-burgeoning alt-country movement with its classic 1995 debut, Faithless Street, Adams seemed like nothing less than a savior, a recklessly prodigal kid equally informed by punk rock and archetypal C&W. However, it soon seemed Adams' legendary petulance wasn't some enfant terri.

Ryan Adams is quantifiably more driven than most. Cardinology is the tenth full-length album to bear his name. Added to the three he cut as the frontman of Whiskeytown, this amounts to a teetering discography for someone still not yet 35 – even when one doesn’t count the reams of stuff Adams creates under aliases in his spare time, to give away online. And no reader of this publication will require persuasion of Adams’ epic capacity for dissatisfaction. The Cardinals – guitarist Neal Casal, bassist Chris Feinstein, pedal steel Jon Graboff, drummer Brad Pemberton – receive due billing on the sleeve. The ghosts of Jerry Garcia and Tony Iommi, meanwhile, are conspicuous only by their absence. There is no way that anybody would mistake Cardinology for anything but a Ryan Adams album. However, it soon seemed Adams' legendary petulance wasn't some enfant terrible act, but the manifestation of a self-absorbed