Ryan has stated that The Suicide Handbook was made for Lost Highway as the follow-up to Heartbreaker and called it his 'most majestic piece ever.' 48 Hours was recorded after Gold in forty-eight hours, hence the title, and is in the country rock genre. Īs of January 2019 the boxset remains unreleased. It will be interesting to get all that stuff in one place.' Ĭardinals member and frequent collaborator, James Candiloro, was said to be compiling the box set, while author Stephen King wrote the liner notes. There'll also be a couple of disks, one of rare stuff that nobody has heard and one of b-sides from all the singles that we made. Adams stated that the five albums would be: 'collected into a box-set called 20:20. Adams stated that the box set would include albums that he ' really wanted to be records.' Background Īccording to Adams, the box set was to include five unreleased albums: The Suicide Handbook, 48 Hours, Pink Hearts, Darkbreaker and Black Hole. 20:20 was a planned box set release by singer-songwriter Ryan Adams, rumored to have a scheduled release in late 2007.