Ryan Adams has released 16 albums in the past 17 years. He once went three years without releasing an album, but he had already made up for that by releasing three albums in a single year.

Of all those releases, the two I know best — the only two I know well, really — are the first two. 2000’s Heartbreaker and 2001’s Gold are both excellent, wide-ranging works and among my favorite records of that decade. In fact, it just struck me that I somehow missed that Heartbreaker was a 2000 release or else it surely would have made my personal best-of list.

I don’t know why I haven’t fully embraced any of those other 14 albums, though I own about half of them. Maybe I never got a chance to give one a chance before the next one came out.

Anyway, every time I hear a track from the albums I do own, I like it. The exception is 2003’s Rock N Roll, which is too loud for my taste. But today’s SOTD, from the 2007 album Easy Tiger, is a winner.