Ryan Adams & The Cardinals Announce New EP

As Ryan & The Cardinals begin another long stretch of tour dates, they have also announced plans for a new EP to be released Oct 23 on Lost Highway Records. Follow The Lights is a seven song collection that includes both new and old compositions, several of which were recorded live in the studio this summer.

The two new songs on the disc, “Follow The Lights” and “My Love For You Is Real” will both be featured prominently in this fall’s season of the ABC primetime drama “October Road” (airing 10pm on Mondays). “Follow The Lights” will also be used in bumpers leading up to the show’s season premiere on November 26th. The complete sequence for Follow The Lights is:

01. Follow The Lights (new song)
02. My Love For You Is Real (new song)
03. Blue Hotel (first official release, recorded live in studio)
04. Dear John (live in studio)
05. This Is It (Cardinals version, live in studio)
06. Down In A Hole (Alice In Chains cover, live in studio)
07. If I Am A Stranger (live in studio)

Follow These Lights comes on the heels of Ryan’s latest full length album Easy Tiger, which has been widely recognized as some of his finest work to date. The Associated Press described it as “the most cohesive and intricately arranged album [Adams] has ever made”, and Time called it “a career breakthrough.” Since Easy Tiger’s release Ryan & The Cards have been on the road almost constantly, and as Variety recently put it, “[Adams is] probably giving the best performances of his career.”

Tour dates are below:

10/01 – Iowa City IA – Iowa Memorial Union, main lounge
10/02 – Kansas City MO – Uptown Theatre
10/04 – Urbana IL – Foelinger Auditorium
10/05 – St. Louis MO – The Pageant
10/13 – North Charleston, SC – North Charleston Performing Arts Center
10/14 – Atlanta GA – Fox Theater
10/15 – Birmingham AL – Alabama Theatre
10/17 – Mobile AL – Saenger Theatre
10/18 – Houston TX – Verizon Wireless Theatre
10/19 – Dallas TX – McFarlin Memorial Auditorium
10/21 – Tulsa OK – Cain’s Ballroom
10/23 – Nashville TN – War Memorial Auditorium
10/24 – Indianapolis IN – Murat Theater
10/25 – Columbus OH – Lifestyles Community Pavilion
10/27 – Lakewood OH – Lakewood Civic Auditorium
10/29 – Pittsburgh PA – Carnegie Music Hall of Oakland
10/30 – Washington DC – D.A.R. Constitution Hall
10/31 – New York NY – Hammerstein Ballroom