Ryan Adams Heartbreaker

3 stars out of 5 - "...[His] sources run deep...he has the raspy, quavering voice and innate tunefulness to be worthy of [his sources]...which run from Paul Westerberg to Hank Williams....[He has] considerable talent and charm..."
"...A brash, alt-country balladeer with a rock instinct....cementing [his] rep as a latter-day Gram Parsons." - Rating: B+
4 out of 5 stars - "...An album of aching ballads topped and tailed by some irresistible barroom remorse....Gram Parsons would have been proud."
"[A] brilliant mix of romantic burn-out, reckless bravado, charred emotions, tender swagger and fractured beauty..."
"[HEARTBREAKER] remains a singular pinnacle in a sometimes overstretched career, unforgettable, entirely wonderful."
Included in AP's "10 Essential Breakup Albums" - "...The torment is all Adams' - we can be certain of that..."
Included in CMJ's "Best of the Year" for 2000.
"...A brand-new set of foot-stomping anthems and rum-soaked ballads....[He] is the newest icon of heartfelt country rock."
Ranked #52 in Mojo's "100 Modern Classics" -- "Adams conjures a kitbag of Dylanesque blues, tear-in-your-beer country and aching Greenwich Village-style folk."
"...Haunted and hurting, this is an album about love....though quiet and spare...it's impassioned, lyrically and melodically..."
Ranked #45 in NME's "Top 50 Albums Of The Year".
8 stars out of 10 - "...Adams takes sighing acoustic guitars and melancholic country melodies and strips them bare until all that remains are the stinging truths of the heart, and his own ruminations....a fine successor to Jeff Buckley's throne as visionary rock troubador."