Producers indlude: Ryan Adams, Frank Callari, Luke Lewis, Michael Blair, Ethan Johns.

Recorded at Woodland and Javelina Studios, Nashville, Tennessee; Cello Studios, Hollywood, California and Nord Studio AB, Stockholm, Sweden between December 2000 and October 2001.

Personnel: Ryan Adams (guitar, electric guitar, harmonica, piano, synthesizer, drum machine); Bucky Baxter (guitar, background vocals); John Paul Keith (guitar); Chris Stills (acoustic 12-string guitar, background vocals); Ethan Johns (electric guitar, ukulele, drums, background vocals); Brad Rice (electric guitar); Greg Leisz (steel guitar, dobro); Mikael Andersson (dobro); Svante Henryson (cello); Michael Blair (djembe); Gillian Welch, Julianna Raye (background vocals).

Recording information: Cello Studios, Hollywood, CA; Javelina Recording Studios, Nashville, TN; Nord Studio AB, Stockholm, Sweden; Woodland Studio, Nashville, TN.

Photographer: Dan Donahue.

As part of the prolific flow of material that found him releasing three albums in two years, ex-Whiskeytown frontman Ryan Adams continued to surf his wave of popularity with 2002's DEMOLITION, a baker's dozen worth of demos. Culled from five separate demo recording sessions, these songs find Adams all over the stylistic map indulging in some twangy, pedal-steel-soaked tendencies ("Hallelujah"), making like Paul Westerberg with a Byrds Jones ("Gimme A Sign"), and tucking into echoey ballads ("Dear Chicago").

Adams also delicately duets with fellow y'alternative stalwart Gillian Welch ("Tomorrow"), mixes it up with Dylan's pedal steel player Bucky Baxter ("Chin Up, Cheer Up"), and still manages to get the girls to swoon on solo-acoustic odes laced with plenty of yearning and a forlorn harmonica solo ("Desire"). Until Adams finds time to bang out another double album in-between touring, rubbing elbows with Elton John, and curing cancer, DEMOLITION makes a fine stopgap for both diehard and casual fans.