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Destroyer
Destroyer (also known as "The Destroyer Sessions") is an unreleased Ryan Adams album recorded with Gillian Welch and David Rawlings in Pilot Recording Studios, NYC with Engineer Producer Merle Chornuk and producer, engineer, Will Schillinger and some in Nashville shortly before Adams' acclaimed solo release, Heartbreaker. Like much of Adams' unreleased material, this has been widely distributed over the internet. This occurred around the same time as the Sno Kobra sessions at Pilot. Additional Engineering and Production by Pilot Recording Studios' owner Will Schillinger.

Track listing

 * 1) "Born Yesterday"
 * 2) "Dreaming's Free (I'm Alright Today)"
 * 3) "The Poison and the Pain"
 * 4) "No Disguise"
 * 5) "Rainy Days"
 * 6) "Statuettes With Wounds"
 * 7) "The String and the Wire"
 * 8) "Hey There, Mrs. Lovely" (alternate version included on Easy Tiger as "These Girls")
 * 9) "Nighttime Gals"
 * 10) "In My Time of Need" (included on Heartbreaker)
 * 11) "Bartering Lines" (included on Heartbreaker)
 * 12) "Memories of You" (false start)
 * 13) "Memories of You"
 * 14) "Revelator"

Exile on Franklin Street
Exile On Franklin Street is an unreleased album by Ryan Adams. It was recorded on 4-track tape in spring/early summer 2000 and was produced by Van Alston with Adams playing all the instruments. The album has been distributed over the Internet, as have many of Adams' other unreleased recordings.

Track listing

 * 1) "Faker" – 4:16
 * 2) "California" (Mix 1) – 3:33
 * 3) "California" (Mix 2) – 3:45
 * 4) "Tractor Beam" – 2:44
 * 5) * Now known as "Do You Wanna Get High"
 * 6) "Come Pick Me Up" – 4:55
 * 7) * Included on  Heartbreaker
 * 8) "Goodbye Honey" – 4:49
 * 9) "All My Fault" (Mix 1) – 1:21
 * 10) "Lash Out" – 1:16
 * 11) "All My Fault" (Mix 2) – 1:32
 * 12) "Personal Hygiene Zero" – 2:00
 * 13) "Chinese Porno Scrappy" – 2:45
 * 14) "The Rescue Blues" – 3:23
 * 15) * Included on  Gold
 * 16) "Supermarket Air Raid" – 1:59
 * 17) "The Last Dance" – 4:41
 * 18) "I Know Where I Live" – 5:44
 * 19) "Why You Wanna Lemme Down?" – 3:43
 * 20) "Listen To The Radio" – 2:26
 * 21) "Secret Powers" – 2:17
 * 22) "Blankets Of Booze" – 2:10
 * 23) "Waves Crashing" – 2:22
 * 24) "Choked Up" – 1:58
 * 25) "Don't Ask For The Water" – 5:46
 * 26) * Included on Heartbreaker
 * 27) "Tell Me How You Want Me" – 3:48
 * 28) * Formerly known as "Tell Me Why"
 * 29) "Rosalie Come & Go" – 0:53
 * 30) * Included as a bonus track on Gold in the UK (and on Side Four in other countries)
 * 31) "Enemy Blanks"
 * 32) "How Ya Doin'?"

The Suicide Handbook
The Suicide Handbook is one of many unreleased albums by Ryan Adams, recorded at Javelina Studios in Nashville, Tennessee sometime in early 2001 (possibly January) soon before Adams' album Gold was recorded.

In Q Magazine, September 2007 edition, Adams states regarding the Suicide Handbook album, 'The album was supposed to be on Lost Highway (record label). It would have been the follow up to Heartbreaker. It was about some really heavy stuff and it's just.....I mean it is amazing. Beautiful strings. If anything it's my most majestic piece ever'.

In another interview from Harp magazine, Adams recalls the turmoil he was experiencing at the time: "I was really stressed out. I had a lot of personal things going on that were more than I could handle. Everyone was worried about me. I'd lost all this weight; there was a lot of Seconol involved. It was just a real bad time." Adams also recalls the studio session with fellow musician Bucky Baxter: "Bucky [Baxter] and I decided to go into Javelina [Studios], which was RCA Two, Chet Atkins' room. We had one microphone, and I taught Buck the songs right before we played them. We did the original version of 'Answering Bell,' which was called 'Just Saying Hi' with different words. We did it all in one day, 21 tunes."

It is a subdued acoustic record similar to Heartbreaker, but in contrast to Gold's higher level of production and more complex musical arrangements. Like Heartbreaker, it has a sad, sentimental tone concerning the breakup of an intimate relationship (while the title of "Idiots Rule the World" might indicate political overtones, Adams has claimed when playing it live that "it's about not being able to score chicks").

Suicide Handbook is traded amongst bootleg collectors. It contains audible pops and other audio infidelities that are the result of the original audio transfer from the master recording.

Track listing

 * 1) "Wild Flowers" (alternate version included on Gold)
 * 2) "Perfect and True"
 * 3) "Tell It to My Heart"
 * 4) "She Wants to Play Hearts" (included on Demolition)
 * 5) "Pretenders"
 * 6) "Famous Eyes"
 * 7) "Touch, Feel & Lose" (alternate version included on Gold)
 * 8) "Firecracker" (alternate version included on Gold)
 * 9) "La Cienega Just Smiled" (alternate version included on Gold)
 * 10) "For No One"
 * 11) "You Don't Know Me"
 * 12) "Bow to the Sad Lady" (alternate version included on bonus disc of French version of Gold and "New York, New York" single, known as "Mara Lisa")
 * 13) "Off Broadway" (alternate version included on Easy Tiger)
 * 14) "Cracks in a Photograph"
 * 15) "I'm Waiting"
 * 16) "Cry on Demand" (included on Demolition)
 * 17) "Miss Sunflower"
 * 18) "Just Saying Hi" (alternate version included on Gold, known as "Answering Bell")
 * 19) "My California Love"
 * 20) "Idiots Rule the World"
 * 21) "Dear Chicago" (included on Demolition)

Personnel

 * Ryan Adams - acoustic guitar, vocals
 * Bucky Baxter - acoustic guitar, backup vocals

The Sweden Sessions
The Sweden Sessions (a.k.a. The Stockholm Sessions) is an unreleased album recorded by Ryan Adams in October 2001 at Nord Studio AB, Stockholm, Sweden.

At one time the album was planned to be part of a four-CD Ryan Adams set to be released by Lost Highway, but this project was ultimately shelved. Nonetheless, bootleg recordings have been circulating amongst traders. Some of the tracks have seen the light of day in other versions: You Will Always Be The Same made its way onto Demolition, while "For Beth" (as "Friends") appeared on Cold Roses.

Track listing

 * 1) "You Will Always Be The Same"
 * 2) "For Beth"
 * 3) "Dear Anne"
 * 4) "Poor Jimmy"
 * 5) "Madeline I"
 * 6) "Madeline II"
 * "Oh, Charles (Prison Letter)"
 * 1) "Come Monday"
 * 2) "Not In Love"
 * 3) "Friendly Fire"
 * 4) "Fool For You (Baby, I'm A Fool For You)"

Personnel

 * Ryan Adams
 * Beth Orton
 * James Iha
 * Ethan Johns
 * others