Ryan Adams recently announced he’d have three new albums out this year, but that number looks to be rapidly shrinking. The first of his planned 2019 releases, “Big Colors,” which was to have come out April 19, has apparently been pulled. Retailers are reporting that they’ve been notified the album is canceled and are offering to return money already spent on advance orders. The website for Adams’ own label, Pax-Am, has deleted pages devoted to pre-orders for the CD and LP.
Adams’ Pax-Am albums are distributed by Blue Note and Capitol Records. Reps for those labels could not immediately be reached for comment Thursday night.
On top of the canceled album, an amplifier company, Benson, has severed its relationship with the artist. “We are saddened and surprised by the recent allegations against Mr. Ryan Adams as documented in the New York Times,” Christopher Benson said in a statement. “We have decided to suspend our relationship with Mr. Adams at this moment, and will no longer move forward with the development of the Ryan Adams signature model. We have no further comment at this time.”
The Times’ story appeared online Wednesday and was prominently featured in Thursday’s print edition. The newspaper’s reporting spotlighted interviews with multiple women, including an underage girl who’d exchanged sexually explicit texts with Adams, as well as former girlfriends and ex-wife Mandy Moore, who maintained he mentored them during romantic relationships but stalled their careers later.
Adams’ previous album, 2017’s “Prisoner,” debuted at No. 1 on the rock, alternative and Americana charts.
Source : Variety
