A couple of years ago, I added Ryan Adams’ Suicide Handbook to my Top 10 Desert Island Albums list. I had listened to the album at least a hundred times and still wanted to hear it a hundred more.
The Suicide Handbook is an unofficial Ryan Adams release, two albums worth of demos recorded between Heartbreaker and Gold, featuring little more than an acoustic guitar (or two), harmonica and Ryan’s soothing voice. Early sketches of “La Cienega Just Smiled”, “Answering Bell” and “Touch Feel and Lose” play as sparse, soulful meditations of love lost and found.
“Firecracker” is my favorite song, its soaring harmonica matching Ryan’s moodswings as he thinks about his date. It’s a song that makes me wish I was a musician, so I could have my own “Firecracker” moment.
Last week, I had a chance to hear Ryan perform the song with an acoustic guitar and harmonica. Brilliant. I can finally cross something off my bucket list.
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