20:20 (album)

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20:20
Box set by
Ryan Adams
ReleasedUnreleased
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]

Contents

Background

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 2024, the box set remains unreleased. [4]

The albums

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]

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  2. 1 2 Murray, Noel (2 June 2007). "Interviews: Ryan Adams". A.V. Club. Archived from the original on 19 September 2008. Retrieved 13 September 2008.
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  4. ↑ Pitter, Charles (13 October 2014). "Jacksonville EP". PopMatters . Retrieved 8 May 2015.
  5. 1 2 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.
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