29

Prolific singer/songwriter issues his third full-length of the year, a conceptual work on which each track portrays the singer, now 31, at a different year in his twenties.

It isn't hard to find someone who likes Ryan Adams' music, but it's hard to find someone who likes all of Ryan Adams' music. Adams has a Robert Pollard-like instinct to release so much material that even his most devoted fans will question their completist instincts. But at least he's picked up the habit of compiling…

Check out our album review of Artist's 29 on Rolling Stone.com.

He cut it close — literally down to the wire — but with 29, Ryan Adams delivers his third new album of 2005.

<p>(Lost Highway) </p>