Ryan Adams will take a hiatus from his band the Cardinals and music in general starting this spring, according to a lengthy comments to Billboard last fall, when he said he was so happy with the Cardinals that he wasn’t interested in recording as a solo artist moving forward. “The stuff we do communally is 10 times better than the stuff I come up with,” he said.
Adams has thrived since enlisting the Cardinals — guitarist/vocalist Neal Casal, bassist Chris Feinstein, pedal steel guitarist Jon Graboff and drummer Brad Pemberton — as his permanent band in 2005. The group’s latest album, last year’s “Cardinology,” debuted at No. 11 on The Billboard 200 and has sold 91,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
“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, to reel it in,” Adams said on the blog.
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