Ryan Adams Details Big Colors and Wednesdays, Debuts New Single (Updated)
"Doylestown Girl" is the first single from Big Colors, due out in April
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Ryan Adams made an early-2019 splash this week when he announced the planned release of three new albums this year. In the days since, he’s slowly but surely unspooled more detail about his forthcoming LPs, the first two of which are titled Big Colors and Wednesdays; the third remains untitled for now.
Adams offered up the Big Colors album art and an in-studio clip alongside his three-album announcement on Monday. The Washington Post’s Jackie Alemany has since revealed the first album’s release date, April 19, and its tracklist, which spans 15 songs. Alemany also reports that Adams produced the album alongside Beatriz Artola and Don Was.
Via this morning’s Power Up: the track-list for @TheRyanAdams BIG COLORS to be released 4/19 https://t.co/ZWUrtwH4fwpic.twitter.com/zhfDo44DWZ
— Jackie Alemany (@JaxAlemany) January 9, 2019
CBS This Morning cohost Anthony Mason later revealed the Wednesdays album art and 17-song tracklist, confirming it will be the second of Adams’ three new albums, revealing a star-studded list of collaborators—including Emmylou Harris, Jason Isbell and Benmont Tench III—and continuing the odd trend of Adams meting out information on his trio of new LPs via political reporters.
Happy Wednesday! Here’s the track list for “Wednesdays” -the 2nd of 3 albums @TheRyanAdams will release this year. The album will also feature @EmmylouSongbird@JasonIsbell & @benchten – now that’s exciting! pic.twitter.com/xjkHHmEkJa
— Anthony Mason (@AnthonyMasonCBS) January 9, 2019
Most recently, Adams debuted the first single from Big Colors, “Doylestown Girl,” via Philadelphia’s WXPN, tweeting, “It will play in PA only on PA stations.” No word yet on when the track will receive an official release—we’ll update this post once it does—but those who were fortunate enough to catch the song on-air seem awfully enthused about it.
The first track anyone will hear on #BigColors plays in few minutes on @wxpnfm It will play in PA only on PA stations. #DoylestownGirl#BigColors#Pennsylvaniapic.twitter.com/9qSNfue1PI
— Ryan Adams (@TheRyanAdams) January 9, 2019
Update, Jan. 11: Soon after Adams’ new single made its radio debut, a SoundCloud radio rip of “Doylestown Girl” began to circulate on the web, as shared by WXPN and even Adams himself. Said audio has since made its way to YouTube—listen below.
Stay tuned for more on Adams’ new albums and listen to an Adams performance from the Paste archives below.