Ryan Adams has been on the road this week and is playing Whiskeytown songs for the first time in his solo career. Still, you can’t beat the real thing, so here’s a very rare performance from 1997 of the classic ’16 Days’.
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There is a snobbery amongst music fans that can best be described as ‘the thing that I know about and you don’t know about is better than the thing we both know about’. It posits that the obscure is often better than the obvious. It’s elitist, it’s divisive and it’s often fun. It’s also often [...]
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Well, my friends, if it hasn’t gone and happened again; yes, Friday has rolled around once more. It’s a time for the working man to put down his tools, to wipe the sweat from his brow and to relax. Well, traditionally anyway, what it generally means in these modern times is productivity drops to the [...]
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Ryan Adams has in the past appeared to be a young man with a very short attention span, given his prolific release schedule over the last decade or so. But it seems that he has finally grown bored of an endless release cycle, even incorporating the many different genres he has recorded in. In fact, [...]
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One of the founding tenets of ELM was that there is simply so much music about that it’s hard to know where to begin. That’s especially true when you are dealing with a prolific artist, and they don’t come much more productive than Ryan Adams. He’s been the golden boy of a modern dawn of [...]
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by E Streeter About a year ago I went to see Ryan Adams and the Cardinals with a friend and having seen about an hour and a quarter I was really none the wiser as to whether Ryan Adams is a rock musician trapped inside a wistful country boy’s shell, or not. I’m still not [...]
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Following on from Scant Regard’s article the other day, here’s the tried and tested mp3 player game. The rules are simple; take out your mighty organ, and simply put it random. then flick, 5 times, and tell us what came up. There are no points for having a Roy Harper to Little Feat to The [...]
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I have a policy about support bands. I don’t see them. Yeah, yeah, I know. I could be missing the next big thing, I’m denying myself a glimpse into the formative years of potentially great artists, I’m not helping these bands develop to the next level. To which I generally respond with an unreserved and [...]
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