from New York Magazine on nymag.com

Ryan Adams originally recorded III/IV with his band the Cardinals in 2007, during the sessions for the excellent Easy Tiger. So is there any good reason why it hasn't been released until now? No, not really. Adams has explained, “We were ready to tell these stories but like all Cards adventures they were soon followed by more playing writing and touring and we got sidelined by making that mellow classic Easy Tiger … I think we just assumed as a band that we would make Easy Tiger, it would go unnoticed and wham back to the III/IV record we would go. Fate was not interested in that story.” Which is to say that you don't need to put III/IV through the mitigating-B-sides filter before listening: III/IV is a proper Ryan Adams studio album. Also: Good!

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