MUSIC - A Quieter Life...

Rather depressing music news from Mr Ryan Adams who is stepping back from the world of music. His career has been eratic, at times jaw droppingly brilliant, highly prolific and has yielded some stone cold classics. Any singer songwriter worth their salt needs to hear 'Heartbreaker' his first album. Even his off cut album "demolition" was a bit of a treasure trove. He seemed to find his feet again with his new band The Cardinals but now...

"Maybe we will play again sometime and maybe I will work my way back into some kind of music situation but this is the time for me to step back now," he wrote.

"This is not much of a life; not glamorous like those ridiculous videos a long time ago television played. And no, it is not monetarily as rewarding as people would like you to believe. And yes, it is soul destroying. Especially when you spend your life trying to write about the really difficult stuff and you stand there losing your way and people yell at you like you were in a circus. When it was your dream to matter and you realise one day, it never mattered - I mean, I am a punchline and a footnote."

He's announced he's quitting the Cardinals in March and stepping back for a quieter life. If you look at this link from an appearance on Letterman singing his best song 'Come Pick Me Up' you can almost see why. Look at this for a garbled 'I don't knwo who the hell you are' opening...