20:20 (Ryan Adams album)

Box set by Ryan Adams

20:20

Box set by

Ryan Adams

Released| Unreleased
Genre| Alternative country
Producer| Various

20:20 was a planned box set release by singer-songwriter Ryan Adams, rumored to have a scheduled release in late 2007.[1] Adams stated that the box set would include albums that he "really wanted to be records."[2]

## Background[edit]

According to Adams, the box set was to include five unreleased albums: The Suicide Handbook, 48 Hours, Pink Hearts, Darkbreaker and Black Hole.[1] Adams stated that the five albums would be: "collected into a box-set called 20:20. There'll also be a couple of disks, one of rare stuff that nobody has heard and one of b-sides from all the singles that we made. It will be interesting to get all that stuff in one place."[1]

Cardinals member and frequent collaborator, James Candiloro, was said to be compiling the box set,[2] while author Stephen King wrote the liner notes.[3]

As of September 2023 the boxset remains unreleased.[4]

## The albums[edit]

Ryan has stated that The Suicide Handbook was made for Lost Highway as the follow-up to Heartbreaker and called it his "most majestic piece ever."[1] 48 Hours was recorded after Gold in forty-eight hours, hence the title, and is in the country rock genre.[5] Pink Hearts, or The Pink Hearts Sessions, is named for his "Nashville Punk" band The Pink Hearts with whom he toured Gold.[6] Darkbreaker was made in L.A. after Jacksonville City Nights (2005) and is, according to Adams, the sound of him "falling apart."[1] The album contains songs that were recorded for the Cameron Crowe movie Elizabethtown but not used.[5] The final album to be included was Black Hole which Adams called "a real serious effort to make a rock record" and confirms that it was the last album he recorded "in the last days of the drugs."[1] Adams told the NME in 2014 that the album was a "really cool" composite of two recorded versions of the album and was considering releasing it for Record Store Day 2015.[7] In the end Adams did not follow this plan through, re-releasing "Come Pick Me Up" instead.[8]

## References[edit]

1. ^ a b c d e f Q Magazine Sep 2007 pg.64
2. ^ a b Murray, Noel (2 June 2007). "Interviews: Ryan Adams". A.V. Club. Archived from the original on 19 September 2008. Retrieved 13 September 2008.
3. ^ Luerssen, John D (1 July 2007). "RYAN ADAMS: Grows Up". American Songwriter. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
4. ^ Pitter, Charles (13 October 2014). "Jacksonville EP". PopMatters. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
5. ^ a b Hyden, Steven (3 September 2014). "The Ryan Adams Conundrum: How Many Incredible Unreleased Albums Does He Have, and Does That Hurt the Ones That Do Come Out?". Grantland. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
6. ^ Kemp, Rob (9 April 2001). "Ryan Adams Reflects On Pneumonia, Gold". MTV. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
7. ^ Earls, John (22 September 2014). "Ryan Adams plans to release 'lost' album 'Blackhole'". NME. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
8. ^ "RSD Exclusive Release – Ryan Adams". Retrieved 8 May 2015.

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Studio albums|

* Heartbreaker
* Gold
* Demolition
* Rock n Roll
* Love Is Hell
* Cold Roses
* Jacksonville City Nights
* 29
* Easy Tiger
* Cardinology
* Orion
* III/IV
* Ashes & Fire
* Ryan Adams
* 1989
* Prisoner
* Wednesdays
* Big Colors

EPs|

* Follow the Lights
* Class Mythology
* 1984

Live albums|

* Live After Deaf
* Live at Carnegie Hall
* Ten Songs from Live at Carnegie Hall

Singles|

* "New York, New York"
* "When the Stars Go Blue"
* "Answering Bell"
* "Nuclear"
* "This Is It"
* "So Alive"
* "Wonderwall"
* "Empty Room" / "Nutshell"
* "Lucky Now"
* "Bad Blood"

Whiskeytown|

* Faithless Street
* Strangers Almanac
* Pneumonia

The Finger|

* We Are Fuck You

Books|

* Infinity Blues
* Hello Sunshine
* Ryan Adams & the Cardinals: A View of Other Windows

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