Easy Tiger

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Easy Tiger
Easy Tiger cover
Studio album by Ryan Adams
Released June 25, 2007
June 26, 2007 (US)
Recorded Electric Lady Studios, Greenwich Village
Genre Alternative country
Length 42:33
Label Lost Highway Records
Producer Jamie Candiloro
Professional reviews
Ryan Adams chronology
29
(2005)		 Easy Tiger
(2007)		 Follow the Lights
(2007)

Easy Tiger is Ryan Adams' 9th studio album since leaving the alt-country band Whiskeytown. The album, which was recorded at Electric Lady Studios in Greenwich Village, was released on June 25, 2007 (June 26 in the U.S.),[1] and was Adams' first release since his 2005 album 29, the third of three albums released in that year. The album features The Cardinals as the backing band and backing vocals from Sheryl Crow on "Two."[2] The song "Halloweenhead" was #45 on Rolling Stone's list of the 100 Best Songs of 2007.[3]

Many of these songs were performed on Adams' recent tour of the United States and Europe. "Off Broadway" first appeared on the bootleg The Suicide Handbook, a compilation of unreleased demo recordings, and was performed at least as early as 2001. "These Girls" previously appeared as "Hey There, Mrs. Lovely" on Adams' unreleased 2000 album Destroyer; the lyrics have been partly rewritten over time, but the original melody is intact.

The album debuted at #7 on the Billboard 200 with Adams highest first-week sales (61,000).[4] As of December 2007, the album has sold over 200,000 copies in the U.S.[5] Furthermore, the album debuted in Ireland, Canada, Belgium, Estonia and Switzerland where Ryan Adams has never had an album chart before. In total, the United World Chart estimated Easy Tiger's two week sales at 134,000 (91,000-43,000).[6]

Contents

[edit] Track listing

Songs written by Ryan Adams, Brad Pemberton, Neal Casal and Jon Graboff unless otherwise stated.

  1. "Goodnight Rose" – 3:20
  2. "Two" (Adams and Pemberton) – 2:39
  3. "Everybody Knows" – 2:26
  4. "Halloweenhead" (Adams) – 3:23
  5. "Oh My God, Whatever, Etc." (Adams and Pemberton) – 2:33
  6. "Tears of Gold" – 2:55
  7. "The Sun Also Sets" (Adams and Pemberton) – 4:11
  8. "Off Broadway" (Adams and Pemberton) – 2:32
  9. "Pearls on a String" – 2:25
  10. "Rip Off" (Adams and Pemberton) – 3:12
  11. "Two Hearts" – 3:03
  12. "These Girls" (Adams and Pemberton) – 2:52
  13. "I Taught Myself How to Grow Old" (Adams) – 3:21
  14. "Nobody Listens to Silence" (Adams) – 3:41
    • UK bonus track
  15. "Alice" (Adams)
    • Japanese bonus track

[edit] Charts

Country Position
UK 18 [7]
US 7 [4]
Australia 32 [8]
Belgium 45 [9]
Canada 22 [10]
Denmark 35 [11]
Estonia 15 [12]
Italy 82 [13]
Ireland 14 [14]
Holland 37 [15]
New Zealand 20 [16]
Norway 5 [17]
Sweden 10 [18]
Switzerland 60 [19]
United World Chart 18 [6]

[edit] Personnel

[edit] The Cardinals

[edit] Other musicians

  • Jamie Candiloro
  • Eric Gorfain
  • Daphne Chen
  • Leah Katz
  • Richard Dodd
  • Richard Worn
  • Sheryl Crow
  • Catherine Popper
  • Cindy Cashdollar

[edit] References

  1. ^ EASY TIGER. Lost Highway Records (2007-03-30). Retrieved on 2007-05-13.
  2. ^ Thompson, Paul (2007-05-04). Ryan Adams' Easy Tiger Tracklist Revealed. Pitchfork Media. Retrieved on 2007-05-13.
  3. ^ No byline (December 11, 2007). "The 100 Best Songs of 2007" Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2007-12-21
  4. ^ a b Choen, Jonathan (2007-07-04). Cyrus Sidesteps Clarkson To Debut At No. 1. Billboard/Nielsen Business Media. Retrieved on 2007-07-04.
  5. ^ Billboard Top 200
  6. ^ a b Global Track Chart
  7. ^ BBC - Radio 1 - Chart Show - The UK Top 40 Albums
  8. ^ Top 50 Albums Chart - Australian Record Industry Association
  9. ^ Skynet.be - LE portail belge – DE Belgische portaalsite!
  10. ^ CANOE - JAM! Music SoundScan Charts
  11. ^ http://www.hitlisterne.dk/2006/lister.asp?list=a40
  12. ^ pedro.ee - CD top100, nädal 26 - 2007
  13. ^ Classifica
  14. ^ >> IRMA << Irish Charts - Singles, Albums & Compilations >>
  15. ^ MegaCharts
  16. ^ charts.org.nz - Ryan Adams - Easy Tiger
  17. ^ VG Nett - VG-lista - UKENS SINGLELISTE
  18. ^ www.sverigetopplistan.se
  19. ^ Ryan Adams - Easy Tiger - swisscharts.com
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