“I made [Darkbreaker] in LA at my most fucked up. That is really deep shit. That’s right after Jacksonville City Nights, and it is some damaged stuff. You can pretty much hear me falling apart.” - Ryan Adams

Elizabethtown [Darkbreaker] is an unreleased album that Ryan Adams recorded in 2005, over the course of two sessions at studios, in Los Angeles and New York City. The sessions began after film director Cameron Crowe asked if Ryan would record some songs for his new movie - Elizabethtown. After laying down a couple tracks, Ryan’s creative juices started flowing and the session soon led to 18 new recordings and an album! In the end, only one song (“Words”) was used for the soundtrack, but it sparked a mountain of great new material, including the first two singles from Easy Tiger (“Two” and “Everybody Knows”). These sessions are fairly notable because not only do they feature some of Ryan’s strongest and most heart-wrench- ing material, but they are likely the last recordings to feature JP Bowerstock on lead guitar with the Cardinals.

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Thanks to darkrendar for sharing the tracks at Dime. darkrendar noted:

All tracks are soundboard sourced. Saturday Night is not included, since the song from the Elizabethtown Sessions has nothing to do with the one Ryan played live in 2001/2002. I made simple fade ins and outs and volume adjustments with Audaci- ty. I also edited Maps a litlle bit to take out one of Ryans mistakes before the first verse. I couldn’t pick one version of Lighthouses so I included two very different ones. Thanks a lot to the people that recorded and shared these tracks! Thanks to Chris Goodwin for the artwork!

MP3 Version Blondie Toronto 1978 * Ryan Adams & The Cardinals 49 mins 13. Lighthouses(2006-09-18-BushHall,London,UK) 6:44 Bristol,UK)2:49 12. Elizabeth, You Were Born To Play That Part (2006-02-21-ColstonHall, Liverpool, UK)3:07 11. Don’t GetSentimentalOnMe(2006-02-18- The PhilharmonicHall, 10. Maps(2006-02-18- The PhilharmonicHall,Liverpool, UK)3:20 09. Two (2006-02-24- Apollo Victoria Theatre, London,UK)2:29 08. Everything Dies(2006-02-24- Apollo Victoria Theatre, London,UK)4:43 07. Lighthouses(2006-02-21-ColstonHall,Bristol,UK)4:43 06. Who Were We (2006-02-21-ColstonHall,Bristol,UK)3:58 NewDaisy Theater, Memphis, TN) 3:08 05. LionsOfBroadway *(akaSteve Miller And Weed) (2004-09-14- Stockholm, Sweden)4:09 04. DreamsOf A Working ClassClown (2001-04-25-Sodra Teatren, Kingston,NY)3:43 03. Everybody Knows *(2007-05-16-UlsterPerforming Arts Center, 02. Clementine(2005-08-09-CommodoreBallroom, Vancouver, BC)2:03 01. CemeteryHill*(2006soundcheck -Bedhead)3:40

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