I wrote this in 1857 when I was a pirate.
Ryan Adams & The Cardinals w/ Norah Jones, “Dear John” (NYC, Dec 5th 2006)
Ryan Adams & The Cardinals, “Dear John”
I never get tired of Ryan & Neal’s harmonies on live versions of this song. I never get tired of their harmonising, period.
Laura lays on the foot of the bed
mimics a noose with a telephone cord
doctor’s on the phone
then she hangs up and says
“I ain’t never gonna see the winter again.”
Ryan Adams & Carrie Hamilton, liner art from “Gold”
“ They carved your name into the stone and then
they put it in the ground,
I run my fingers through the grooves
When no one’s around. Ryan Adams & The Cardinals, September
they put it in the ground,
I run my fingers through the grooves
When no one’s around. Ryan Adams & The Cardinals, September
Ryan Adams & The Cardinals, Jacksonville City Nights (2005)
01. A Kiss Before I Go
02. The End
03. Hard Way To Fall
04. Dear John
05. The Hardest Part
06. Games
07. Silver Bullets
08. Peaceful Valley
09. September
10. My Heart Is Broken
11. Trains
12. Pa
13. Withering Heights
14. Don’t Fail Me Now
Which is your favourite track from this album?
I refer to actually getting onstage as ‘the walk’. It’s that twenty seconds of disbelief that I am actually going to go out there and actually sing, and my neck becomes stiff, and my posture devolves, and my bones coagulate in some caveman foetal position in efforts to protect myself from pain. But something beautiful happens…not always…but most of the time. Something cosmic like a first kiss or fresh socks. But better.
Ryan Adams, Tracks (2004)
Ryan Adams, “Answering Bell” (live @ Paradiso 2001)
Ryan Adams, 27th April 2006 (via Chad Tasky)
Neal Casal, Jon Graboff & Catherine Popper
“ I’ve been stranded on their doorstep
for every night and day.
I only want them more.
It’s so sad,
but when they smile,
God, I’ve been had. Ryan Adams, “These Girls”
for every night and day.
I only want them more.
It’s so sad,
but when they smile,
God, I’ve been had. Ryan Adams, “These Girls”
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Ryan Adams, “These Girls”
these girls are better off in my head.
