Jacksonville City Nights

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Jacksonville City Nights
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Studio album by
Ryan Adams and The Cardinals
ReleasedSeptember 26, 2005
RecordedNew York City, NY. Nashville, TN.
Genre Country rock, alternative country
Length46:16
Label Lost Highway Records
Producer Tom Schick
Ryan Adams chronology
Cold Roses
(2005)		Jacksonville City Nights
(2005)		 29
(2005)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic (72/100) [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Chicago Tribune (favorable) [3]
Entertainment Weekly C+ [4]
The Music BoxStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [5]
Paste (average) [6]
Pitchfork Media (7.7/10) [7]
PopMatters Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [8]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [9]
Uncut Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [1]
USA Today Star full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [10]

Jacksonville City Nights is the seventh studio album by American alternative country singer-songwriter Ryan Adams, released on September 26, 2005, and released in the US on September 27, 2005 on Lost Highway. The album is Adams' second with The Cardinals, and the second in a trilogy of albums released in a seven-month timespan during 2005. By 2007, the album had sold 100,000 copies in the United States and 158,000 worldwide. [11] The album was recorded live in the studio, without overdubs. The title is a reference to Adams' hometown of Jacksonville, North Carolina, which has been referenced throughout his career.

Contents

Several limited American releases contained a DVD entitled September (which was originally intended to be the title of the album), which featured a 20 minute documentary about the band on the road and in the studio. Bassist Catherine Popper is featured in the photograph on the album cover.

Leak

In August 2005, two fans of Adams prematurely uploaded four tracks from Jacksonville City Nights to a fansite of Adams. [12] [13] In March 2006, Robert Thomas of Milwaukee and Jared Bowser of Jacksonville, Florida, two moderators of the fansite, were indicted by US federal court after the two had pled guilty to federal copyright violations. [14] [13] They had violated the Family Entertainment and Copyright Act (FECA), which establishes a federal crime for pirating music and movies before their official release to the public. [14] If they had been convicted on all counts, they could have faced up to 11 years in prison. [15] The case ended after Thomas and Bowser accepted a plea deal; they were able to bring down the felony counts to misdemeanors. [13] Instead of the 11 years, they received two months of house arrest and two years of probation. [13] Thomas was able to be removed from house arrest and probation early because of good behavior. [13] Due to there being no proof of monetary loss to the record label, Thomas and Bowser did not have to pay the record label. [13] While the case was ongoing, Thomas shut the fansite down but relaunched it after the case ended, missing the community. [13]

Reception

The album so far has a score of 72 out of 100 from Metacritic based on "generally favorable reviews". [1] Spin gave it a B+ and said the album "reminds you why Adams was once a big deal." [1] NME gave it a score of seven out of ten and said, "Adams could clearly make use of an editor here--but you can't possibly hate an album that uses pedal-steel on every track." [1] Tiny Mix Tapes gave it a score of three-and-a-half stars out of five and said, "As with most Adams records, the fact that some of the songs made the cut is perplexing." [16] However, Blender gave it three stars out of five and said, "It's the sound of a New Yorker coming home for a breath of country air." [1] Prefix Magazine gave it an average review and said, "Perhaps Adams is just earning cheap sympathy with his strained, tour-weary voice, or maybe it’s just too thrilling to hear him revisit Gram, but Jacksonville City Lights [sic] does seem to come by its sound honestly." [17]

Track listing

All lyrics are written by Ryan Adams; all music is composed by Adams, J.P. Bowersock, Pemberton, Catherine Popper & Jon Graboff except where indicated

No.TitleLength
1."A Kiss Before I Go"2:05
2."The End" (Adams & Michael Panes)3:44
3."Hard Way To Fall"4:06
4."Dear John" (Adams & Norah Jones)4:36
5."The Hardest Part"2:52
6."Games"2:11
7."Silver Bullets"2:56
8."Peaceful Valley"3:42
9."September"2:30
10."My Heart Is Broken" (Adams & Caitlin Cary)2:14
11."Trains" (Adams & Panes)4:08
12."Pa"3:52
13."Withering Heights"2:53
14."Don't Fail Me Now"4:27


Bonus tracks
No.TitleLength
1."What Sin Replaces Love" (Demonstration recording)9:27
2."What Sin Replaces Love" (Acoustic version)3:51
3."Jeane"2:33
4."Always on My Mind" (Johnny Christopher, Mark James and Wayne Carson Thompson)4:41
5."I Still Miss Someone" (Johnny Cash cover) (Johnny Cash, Roy Cash)2:58

Chart positions

Album

CountryPeak
position
US [18] 33
Belgium (Flanders) [19] 66
Germany [20] 72
Ireland [21] 43
New Zealand [22] 40
Norway [23] 16
Sweden [24] 27
UK [25] 59

Musicians

The Cardinals

Other musicians

The Nashville String Machine

The Nashville String Machine perform on the song "My Heart Is Broken" and are:

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  2. ↑ Allmusic review
  3. ↑ Chicago Tribune review
  4. ↑ Dombal, Ryan (2005-09-30). "Jacksonville City Nights Review". Entertainment Weekly : 94. Archived from the original on 2009-04-25. Retrieved 2013-05-01.
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  8. ↑ PopMatters review
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  17. ↑ Prefix Magazine review, mislabelled as "Jacksonville City Lights"
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