Ryan Adams has announced that he will once again release three albums this year – starting with ‘Big Colors’.

The ever-prolific singer-songwriter released his acclaimed 17th studio album ‘Prisoner‘ back in 2017. The last time he released three albums in a year was back in 2005 when he dropped the favourites ‘Cold Roses’, ‘Jacksonville City Nights’, and ’29’. Now, after teasing that he had a lot of new material in the bag, Adams looks set to go for another hat-trick of releases.

“Remember that year when I released three records?” he wrote on Twitter late last night, along with a photo of his Pax-Am studios. “Let’s do it again.”

He also shared the artwork for the first of the new records, ‘Big Colors’, along with some studio footage.

Last year, the alt-folk legend told fans that he had several albums ready to release, including the long-lost record ‘Blackhole’.

“I wrote this album,” he wrote alongside the sleeve for solo debut ‘Heartbreaker’. “I have 17 new songs. I have 4 records on a shelf. Does anyone want to hear ‘Prisoner’ 2 & 3, ‘Black Hole’? ‘Live at Capitol Theater w @stringdusters’, ‘Exile On Main Street’ cover live & rehearsal?”

He continued: “I’m just asking to see if maybe I’m crazy & no one does.” The two live albums he mentioned in the message referred to a show recorded in Port Chester, New York in July 2016 with The Infamous Stringdusters, and his Rolling Stones tribute from New Orleans Jazz Fest last month respectively. 

‘Black Hole’, meanwhile, dates back to over a decade ago. Adams reportedly considered releasing it to celebrate Record Store Day in 2015, but it has remained unreleased. Speaking to NME in 2014, he revealed that he had different versions of the record.

“There’s one where the vocals and the performances are really fucked up,” he said. “Then there’s a second version, which was the last thing I did when I was still messed up. Bits and pieces of that had to be stitched together to make the final product, like a patchwork quilt, because some of its vocal takes are too fucked up to release.”

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