Heartbreaker
by Ryan Adams
- Type: Album
- Released: 5 September 2000
- Label: Bloodshot
- Country: United States
- Length: 51:49
- Community rating: 3.91/5 from 9 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
'Heartbreaker' is a remarkably intimate and melodic debut that helped define modern alt-country. Ryan Adams navigates profound loneliness and romantic devastation through bittersweet, sentimental acoustic arrangements and passionate vocal performances.
Genres
Descriptors: breakup, melodic, male-vocals, acoustic, folk, confessional
Tracklist
- (Argument with David Rawlings Concerning Morrisey) (00:36)
- To Be Young (Is to Be Sad, Is to Be High) (03:04)
- My Winding Wheel (03:12)
- Amy (03:46)
- Oh My Sweet Carolina (04:56)
- Bartering Lines (03:59)
- Call Me on Your Way Back Home (03:09)
- Damn Sam (I Love a Woman That Rains) (02:08)
- Come Pick Me Up (05:18)
- To Be the One (03:00)
- Why Do They Leave? (03:38)
- Shakedown on 9th Street (02:52)
- Don't Ask for the Water (02:55)
- In My Time of Need (05:38)
- Sweet Lil' gal (23rd/1st) (03:38)
Credits
- David Rawlings - acoustic guitar, backing vocals, banjo, electric guitar, tambourine [throwing], written-by, tambourine, vocal
- Gillian Welch - acoustic guitar, backing vocals, banjo, electric bass, voice [of "lucy"], electric bass guitar, vocal, other vocals vocal
- Ryan Adams - acoustic guitar, banjo, electric guitar, vocals, piano, harmonica, written-by, vocal
- Frank Riley - booking
- Gina Binkley - design
- Patrick Himes - engineer [assistant]
- Josh Grier - legal [legal representation]
- Frank Callari - management
- Doug Sax - mastered by, mastering
- Maple - other [all around swell guy that brought up the amp]
- David McClister - photography by
- Ethan Johns - producer, engineer, mixed by, bass, drums, glockenspiel, organ [b-3], vibraphone [vibes], chamberlin, drums (drum set), Hammond organ, vibraphone, bass guitar
- Allen Midgett - recorded by [pre-production]
- Merle Chornuk - recorded by [pre-production]
- Van Alston - written-by