Cold Roses

While performing in Liverpool in January 2004, Adams broke his left wrist when he slipped off the stage and fell six feet into the orchestra pit below.{{cite news| url=https://www.nme.com/news/ryan-adams/16017 | work=NME.com | title=Ryan Adams - 'I could've been paralysed' | date=2004-01-28 | access-date=2015-06-07}} A painful recovery and rehab period followed over the next several months, as Adams relocated to his hometown of Jacksonville, North Carolina, and slowly relearned how to play guitar. "There would be tears streaming down my face as I struggled to play Black Sabbath songs,” he later said.{{cite news| url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/bobmehr/at-home-kinda-with-ryan-adams#.ajE5jz5VO | work=BuzzFeed | first=Bob | last=Mehr | title=At Home, Kinda, With Ryan Adams | date=2014-09-07 | access-date=2015-06-07}} During this difficult time, Adams was inspired by Jerry Garcia's playing because "he wasn’t afraid to fuck up".{{cite news| url=https://www.myspace.com/article/2014/09/09/ryan-adams-grateful-dead-influence-list | work=MySpace | first=Lilledeshan | last=Bose | title=Looking for the Grateful Dead in Ryan Adams’ Music | date=2014-09-09 | access-date=2015-06-07}} This fascination with The Grateful Dead and Bob Dylan pointed Adams in a new musical direction, and his next band - christened The Cardinals - was conceived as a loose, spacious musical collective.{{cite news| url=http://www.prefixmag.com/features/ryan-adams/apollo-theater/22762/ | work=Prefix Magazine | first=Amos | last=Barshad | title=Ryan Adams: Show Review (Apollo Theater) | date=2008-11-02 | access-date=2015-06-07}}

In 2011, Adams claimed that "How Do You Keep Love Alive" was written while he was high on opium: "I fully understand when people say Edgar Allan Poe used to smoke this stuff and have visions. I wrote the entire song "How Do You Keep Love Alive" without writing a word down, and I played it on piano. And I've tried to understand the chord pattern ever since, because I can't fuckin' play it."{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/sep/22/ryan-adams-things-got-broken?newsfeed=true | location=London | work=The Guardian | first=Dave | last=Simpson | title=Ryan Adams: 'Things got broken and I couldn't fix them' | date=2011-09-22}}

The album so far has a score of 69 out of 100 from Metacritic based on "generally favorable reviews". USA Today gave it three-and-a-half stars out of four and said, "What makes this hard-to-pigeonhole country/folk/ punk/pop-rocker remarkable is the quality of the quantity. There's not a bad song in Cold Roses' 18-track bouquet, and at least 13 are worth instant iPod enshrining."[https://archive.today/20130703165408/http://alt-country.org/Thread.aspx?ID=1662329 USA Today review via alt-country.org] The Guardian gave it a score of four stars out of five and said of Ryan Adams: "The boy wonder is back in the saddle."{{cite web |title=CD: Ryan Adams and the Cardinals, Cold Roses |date=2005-04-29 |website=The Guardian |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180710133413/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2005/apr/29/popandrock.shopping3 |archive-date=2018-07-10 |url-status=live |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2005/apr/29/popandrock.shopping3}} Chicago Tribune gave it a favorable review and called it "Adams' most ambitious effort to date."[https://web.archive.org/web/20150930172153/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2005-05-09/news/0505100001_1_ryan-adams-grateful-dead-whiskeytown Chicago Tribune review] The A.V. Club gave it a favorable review and said it "feels fantastic--as pretty and affecting as a slow sunset."[https://www.avclub.com/ryan-adams-the-cardinals-cold-roses-1798200656 The A.V. Club review] Spin gave it a score of seven out of ten and said, "There's an air of formal exercise here.... But if you can ride with the cliches, you won't fault the execution."[https://www.spin.com/2005/07/ryan-adams-cardinals-cold-roses-lost-highway-sufjan-stevens-illinois-asthmatic-kitty/ Spin review] E! Online gave it a B− and said, "Even if it is twice as long as it needs to be (thus, a couple of dead spots), we're not arguing. We're just enjoying the music."

Some reviews are average or mixed: The Austin Chronicle gave it a score of three stars out of five and called it "Adams' double-album hubris".[http://www.austinchronicle.com/music/2005-05-06/269736/ The Austin Chronicle review] Neumu.net gave it a score of six stars out of ten and called it "a relaxed and ambitious collection that confirms Ryan Adams' reputation as a top-notch singer and songwriter who easily jumps styles and evokes comfortable sadness with every turn."{{cite web |url=http://neumu.net/fortyfour/2005/2005-00094/2005-00094_fortyfour.shtml |title=Neumu.net review |access-date=2013-05-01 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080225110616/http://neumu.net/fortyfour/2005/2005-00094/2005-00094_fortyfour.shtml |archive-date=February 25, 2008 }} Tiny Mix Tapes gave it a score of three stars out of five and called it an "18-track monster".{{cite web |url=http://www.tinymixtapes.com/musicreviews/a/ryan_adams.htm |title=Tiny Mix Tapes review |access-date=2006-09-19 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060919013219/http://www.tinymixtapes.com/musicreviews/a/ryan_adams.htm |archive-date=September 19, 2006 }} Paste also gave it a score of three stars out of five and said it "comes as a bit of relief, bereft of the posturing that so often attends Adams’ work.... That said, there’s also a sense of retreat that permeates the record, a willingness to offer the comforts of familiar tones instead of ambitiously taking chances."{{cite magazine|url=https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2005/06/ryan-adams-the-cardinals-1.html|title=Ryan Adams & The Cardinals (Cold Roses) :: Music :: Reviews|last=Leven|first=Jeff|magazine=Paste|date=2005-06-03|access-date=2013-05-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060107192027/http://www.pastemagazine.com/action/article?article_id=1687|archive-date=2006-01-07|url-status=live}} Playlouder gave it a score of two-and-a-half stars out of five and called it "A frustratingly self indulgent and inconsistent double album that pitches itself somewhere between the classic country rock of 2001's 'Gold' and the lovelorn despair of 2004's 'Love Is Hell'."{{cite web |url=http://www.playlouder.com/review/+coldroses/ |title=Playlouder review |access-date=2013-05-01 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050507094258/http://www.playlouder.com/review/+coldroses/ |archive-date=May 7, 2005 }} Flak Magazine gave it a mixed review and said, "Without the first disc, the double disc Cold Roses wouldn't be half bad."{{cite web |url=http://www.flakmag.com/music/radamscoldroses.html |title=Flak Magazine review |access-date=2013-05-01 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050624235037/http://www.flakmag.com/music/radamscoldroses.html |archive-date=June 24, 2005 }}

{{track listing

| all_writing = Adams, Bowersock, Cashdollar, Pemberton and Popper

| headline = Disc one

| title1 = Magnolia Mountain

| length1 = 5:53

| title2 = Sweet Illusions

| length2 = 5:02

| title3 = Meadowlake Street

| length3 = 4:29

| title4 = When Will You Come Back Home

| length4 = 4:52

| title5 = Beautiful Sorta

| length5 = 3:01

| title6 = Now That You're Gone

| length6 = 3:52

| title7 = Cherry Lane

| length7 = 4:32

| title8 = Mockingbird

| length8 = 4:47

| title9 = How Do You Keep Love Alive

| length9 = 3:12

}}

{{track listing

| headline = Disc two

| title1 = Easy Plateau

| length1 = 5:12

| title2 = Let It Ride

| length2 = 3:24

| title3 = Rosebud

| length3 = 2:56

| title4 = Cold Roses

| length4 = 4:36

| title5 = If I Am a Stranger

| length5 = 4:39

| title6 = Dance All Night

| length6 = 3:15

| title7 = Blossom

| length7 = 3:15

| title8 = Life Is Beautiful

| length8 = 4:29

| title9 = Friends

| length9 = 4:45

}}

{{ track listing

| headline = Bonus tracks

| title1 = Tonight

| note1 = Vinyl and UK release only, also released as an iTunes exclusive album-only track

| length1 = 3:29

| title2 = So Hot, So Cold

| note2 = Japan and UK Bonus Track

| length2 = 3:20

| title3 = Operator, Operator

| note3 = Japan Bonus Track

| length3 = 1:46

}}

• Ryan Adams – Vocals, acoustic and electric guitar, harmonica, piano, bass guitar on "Blossom", all instruments on "Life Is Beautiful"
• J. P. Bowersock – Electric
• Brad Pemberton – Drums, vocals
• Catherine Popper – Bass guitar, vocals, piano
• Rachael Yamagata – Vocals and piano on "Let It Ride", "Cold Roses" and "Friends"
• Cindy Cashdollar - Steel Guitar, Dobro

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