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For just over three years, Ryan Adams took a break from music, disbanding his group The Cardinals. Now he’s back with a new solo album, Ashes & Fire, and playing better than ever.
“My whole life’s work,” Adams explains, “is about putting myself in a position where I answer to the whims of something I can’t understand in me. When that happens, I must make myself available to it, almost no matter what. I have to be ready to respond and let something come through me that needs to be turned into these words and these songs. I only need to catch a few seconds of it – like a shape in the fog – and I’ll know that I have to write it.”
What prompted you to start making music again?
Well, I took a good break. And I responded to the request inside myself in a real way. I picked up the guitar and I was really playing for me. I played some of the most beautiful stuff that I ever played, that I never recorded, in the time I took off. I hadn’t felt like making music [with The Cardinals], but then I didn’t know what else I was supposed to do.
(Source: macworld.com.au)
Do I Wait by Ryan Adams from Ashes & Fire Acoustic
