Four vinyl LP Box set, includes DVD. Ryan Adams' first solo album expanded with unreleased outtakes, pre-album demos, exclusive photos, and a NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN DVD of a solo acoustic club show from 2000.
Heartbreaker is a near perfect record, the kind that never gets dated, with songs that slowly work themselves into our subconscious musical heritage. It's also Bloodshot Records' best seller ever.
Upon its release in 2000, it was immediately apparent that Ryan Adams had taken a momentous leap forward with his songwriting and songcraft, abilities that had been merely hinted at in his days with Whiskeytown. For such a fully formed, confident set of songs to come out of nowhere, with their easy amalgam of country and rock stylings, seemed impossible.
Heartbreaker almost single handedly re-defined what was possible for roots music and moved firmly into the mainstream without a whiff of compromised quality. This raggedy folk-punk confessional, with its stripped down band and sparse arrangements combine to create a record full of soul-baring songs.
Get yourself together because Ryan climbs all over your emotions with these tunes of desperation, loss and hope. It's a record you'll want to put on late at night when you're too drunk to fall asleep, but too sober to face staying awake and it features some hefty guest appearances from Emmylou Harris, Gillian Welch, David Rawlings and Kim Richey to boot.
- Disc 1 -
1 Argument with David Rawlings Concerning Morrissey
2 To Be Young (Is to Be Sad, Is to Be High)
3 My Winding Wheel
4 Amy
5 Oh My Sweet Carolina
6 Bartering Lines
7 Call Me on Your Way Back Home
8 Damn, Sam (I Love a Woman That Rains)
- Disc 2 -
1 Come Pick Me Up
2 To Be the One
3 Why Do They Leave?
4 Shakedown on 9th Street
5 Don't Ask for the Water
6 In My Time of Need
7 Sweet Lil Gal (23RD/1st)
- Disc 3 -
1 Hairdresser on Fire
2 To Be Young (Is to Be Sad, Is to Be High)
3 Petal in a Rainstorm
4 War Horse
5 Oh My Sweet Carolina
6 Come Pick Me Up
7 Punk Jam
8 When the Rope Gets Tight
9 When the Rope Gets Tight
10 Goodbye Honey
11 In My Time of Need
- Disc 4 -
1 Bartering Lines
2 Come Pick Me Up
3 To Be the One
4 Don't Ask for the Water
5 In My Time of Need
6 Goodbye Honey
7 Petal in a Rainstorm
8 War Horse Demo
9 Locked Away
- Disc 5 -
1 Oh My Sweet Carolina
2 Gimme Sunshine
3 Banter
4 To Be Young (Is to Be Sad, Is to Be High) [Live at the Mercury Lounge
5 Amy
6 Banter
7 Call Me on Your Way Back Home [Live at the Mercury Lounge, New York 200
8 Banter
9 Just Like a Whore
10 Wonderwall (Fragment)
11 Wonderwall (Complete Song)
12 Banter
13 Damn, Sam (I Love a Woman That Rains) [Live at the Mercury Lounge, New
14 Sweet Lil' Gal (23rd / 1st)
15 Come Pick Me Up
16 My Winding Wheel