Gold is the second studio album by American musician Ryan Adams. It was released September 25, 2001, by Lost Highway Records. The album remains Adams' best-selling album, certifying gold in the UK and going on to sell 364,000 copies in the U.S. and 812,000 worldwide. Adams received three Grammy Award nominations in 2002: Best Rock Album, Best Male Rock Vocal Performance for "New York, New York", and Best Male Country Vocal Performance for "Lovesick Blues", a song recorded for the Hank Williams tribute album, Timeless. Adams claimed that "with Gold, I was trying to prove something to myself. I wanted to invent a modern classic." Gold was the number six album of 2001 on The Village Voice's annual Pazz and Jop critic's poll. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_(R...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)