Confessions of a Fanboy

I had fallen down on the job with some of these Ryan Adams set lists but remembered last night as I was listening to Cardinology, etc.
We resume our trek with our lad RA now in Europe, specifically Edinburgh, Scotland.  This show drew heavily from the amazing Cold Roses record, with “Magnolia Mountain,” “Meadowlake Street” and [...]

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If you paid to go to the Newcastle show, don’t look at this set list until you’ve called your lawyer because you got fucked.  Newcastle got 18 fucking songs.  Leeds got 29, ending with “Desire.”  If that was the last song I heard at the end of this kind of marathon set, I’d have burned [...]

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Wow, this one is a bit of a disappointment, being trimmed down to a rather lean 18 songs.  Our boy had played the night previous in Manchester.  Maybe that took something out of him and the band, because this is really short on songs.

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Okay, here’s a Cold Roses song I fuckin’ love that doesn’t get dusted off often enough.  Let’s hear it for “How Do You Keep Love Alive?”  That’s a good one.  Otherwise, this set draws pretty heavily from the fine Cardinology record.
“Fix It” is still my favorite song on that record.

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There are a lot of great songs on this set list and I’d have enjoyed it but there is only one song on here that stops me dead in my tracks.  The heavens would open and time would stop when “La Cienega Just Smiled” was played.    Okay, strike that.  They would have opened for “Desire.”  [...]

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We hadn’t had any Ryan Adams set list updates in some time because illness forced a few cancellations.  Starting with Tuscaloosa, AL, the band got back on the road but all is not completely back to normal.  Apparently, Ryan lost his voice and there was no real second set to the Alpharetta show.  The show [...]

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If Alabama had lost to Ole Miss this weekend, I’d have had to blame Ryan Adams.  Fortunately, the Tide held on to win so all is forgiven.  Well, almost all.  Co-Worker Drew got to go see Ryan’s show down in T-Town and I didn’t.  The set list is good (although I’ve seen better on this [...]

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Ames, Iowa, home to Iowa State University and the Cyclones.   You have to be impressed with that bit of trivia, don’t you?  Maybe not.  Let’s talk set list.
“Dear Chicago” and “Desire” are always a winner with me (might have mentioned that before) and I’m also a fan of “How Do You Keep Love Alive.”  Overall, [...]

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There’s the Thrilla in Manilla, The Miracle on Ice, and now we have the Marathon in Madison. Ryan Adams, according to legend, is prone to every once in awhile firing off a classic, elongated show that sends the masses home in a frenzy. Topping out at a curfew-busting 31 songs, this might have [...]

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We join this program already in progress- sorry, I didn’t really have an opening there and I just went with something.  My attention is mainly drawn to the first set from the St. Louis show.  ”Everybody Knows,” “Come Pick Me Up,” and “Wonderwall” in a row would have had me reaching for some matches.  ”La [...]

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