THE SUICIDE HANDBOOK

'''The Suicide Handbook''' is one of many unreleased albums by Ryan Adams, recorded at Javelina Studios in Nashville, Tennessee sometime in early 2001 (possibly January) soon before Adams' album ''Gold'' was recorded.
In Q Magazine, September 2007 edition, Adams stats regarding the Suicide Handbook album, 'The album was supposed to be on Lost Highway (record label). It would have been the follow up to Heartbreaker. It was about some really heavy stuff and it's just.....I mean it is amazing. Beautiful strings. If anything it's my most majestic piece ever'.
It is a subdued acoustic record similar to ''Heartbreaker'', but in contrast to ''Gold's higher level of production and more complex musical arrangements. Like ''Heartbreaker'', it has a sad, sentimental tone concerning the breakup of an intimate relationship (while the title of "Idiots Rule the World" might indicate political overtones, Adams has claimed when playing it live that "it's about not being able to score chicks").
''Suicide Handbook'' is traded amongst bootleg collectors. It contains audible pops and other audio infidelities that are the result of the original audio transfer from the master recording.

Contents

Track listing

Personnel

Track listing

# "Wild Flowers" (alternate version included on ''Gold'')
# "Perfect and True"
# "Tell It to My Heart"
# "She Wants to Play Hearts" (included on ''Demolition'')
# "Pretenders"
# "Famous Eyes"
# "Touch, Feel & Lose" (alternate version included on ''Gold'')
# "Firecracker" (alternate version included on ''Gold'')
# "La Cienega Just Smiled" (alternate version included on ''Gold'')
# "For No One"
# "You Don't Know Me"
# "Bow to the Sad Lady" (alternate version included on bonus disc of French version of ''Gold'' and "New York, New York" single, known as "Mara Lisa")
# "Off Broadway" (included on ''Easy Tiger'')
# "Cracks in a Photograph"
# "I'm Waiting"
# "Cry on Demand" (included on ''Demolition'')
# "Miss Sunflower"
# "Just Saying Hi" (alternate version included on ''Gold'', known as "Answering Bell")
# "My California Love"
# "Idiots Rule the World"
# "Dear Chicago" (included on ''Demolition'')

Personnel

★ Ryan Adams - acoustic guitar, vocals

★ Bucky Baxter - acoustic guitar, backup vocals