Thanks for nothing Letterman!!

Live streaming of Ryan Adams from thge Ed Sullivan theatre not allowed in my country. Another sleepless night wasted! Ryan Adams in Edinburgh was one of the best gigs in many a long time and if you get the chance to catch him on his January 2012 US Dates do not miss him...

Well here is a great clip anyway fom the Live At Abbey Road Sessions:

http://youtu.be/ix9g-yW7sCo

New Ryan Adams Lp - Ashes and Fire

Delighted to hear that Ryan Adams seems to be back on form!



I quote!

Ryan Adams – Ashes & Fire


New Album Out October 11 on PAX-AM/Capitol

Ryan Adams will release his new album Ashes & Fire October 11 on PAX-AM/Capitol in the U.S. Adams’ first solo album to be released via a new U.S. arrangement with his own PAX-AM label and EMI’s Capitol in the U.S. and Canada, the album was recorded at Sunset Sound Factory in Hollywood and produced by Glyn Johns, renowned for his work with the likes of The Beatles, Bob Dylan, The Clash, The Who and The Rolling Stones–and whose son Ethan produced previous Ryan Adams albums Heartbreaker, Gold and 29.


Ashes & Fire also features guest turns from Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers keyboardist Benmont Tench as well as Norah Jones who contributes piano and backing vocals on several tracks.

The full tracklisting for Ashes & Fire is:

Dirty Rain

Ashes & Fire

Come Home

Rocks

Do I Wait

Chains Of Love

Invisible Riverside

Save Me

Kindness

Lucky Now

I Love You But I Don’t Know What To Say

Forgotten Album Friday #15 - Whiskeytown Pneumonia

Ryan Adams can be a musical genius and his work with his first band Whiskeytown is well worth seeking out. Pneumonia was recorded in 1998 but was not released until 2001 due to some legal hoo ha with the record label and possibly some of the band members. The album is more of a solo Ryan Adams album although he has said in a number of interviews that the album would never be released if he had anything to do with it. Fortunately it was released and seems to have softened his views on the album in recent times.

While Pneumonia may not achieve the classic status of the band's best album Strangers Almanac (1996), it comes close.  The songs bounce from the horn-laden "The Ballad of Carol Lynn" to the orchestral sound of "Under Your Breath," a song that would be equally at home on Adams' solo album, Heartbreaker.

The album is produced by Ethan Johns, who produced the early Ryan Solo albums amongst many other things and as you would expect he gives this album a much more polished sound that the earlier Whiskeytown albums.

Essential tracks:

Under Your Breath

The Balld of Carol Lynn

Jacksonville Skyline

Reason To Lie

Forgotten Album Friday #1 Ryan Adans Demolition

I am not going to make much comment on these - search them out and listen again and take something from these albums that you may have left behind! This week a patchy but at times brilliant release from patchy but mostly brilliant artist.

Key tracks:

Nuclear

You Will Always Be The Same

Chin UP, Cheer Up

Ryan Adams Last Gig

You will probably all be aware that Ryan Adams has stated his intention to bow out from music....in his blog post he said

“love is being accepted for who you are. love is taking care of yourself and caring for others and dreaming out loud when it matters. not chasing rainbows. not hoping for some eventual collective sigh of approval which will never come. how did i ever think in those terms? i always knew better. thank goodness i know now how to be honest with myself.”

Well we will see and you can decide for yourself if he is at a loss with this stunning download of the final gig at March 20 at the Fox Theater in Atlanta, Georgia:

http://www.archive.org/download/ryanadams2009-03-20.140sbdmatrix.flacf16/ryanadams2009-03-20.140sbdmatrix.flacf16_vbr_mp3.zip

Obviously I do not condone bootlegs! Here is what you would get if you did such a thing!

Set 1:

Magick
Let it Ride
Two
Everybody Knows
Beautiful Sorta
Mockingbird
Dear Chicago
Blue Hotel
Cold Roses
Natural Ghost
Easy Plateau
Bartering Lines
Band Intros
Fix It
Magnolia Mountain
Please Do Not Let Me Go
Peaceful Valley
Freeway to the Canyon

Set 2:

When the Stars Go Blue
Sink Ships
Oh My Sweet Carolina
Grand Island
Evening Joke
I See Monsters
Come Pick Me Up
Rescue Blues
Wonderwall
Goodnight Rose