Ryan Adams - Fortress of the Spider Gods

Mr. David Ryan Adams posted a sweet little jam the other day at his site by a DRA mind group (that's what I'm calling all his aliases these days) called GALAXIAN.

Download - Ryan Adams - Fortress of the Spider Gods

Ryan Adams Launches Pax-Am Label

From twentyfourbit.com:

Ryan Adams’ “step back” from music is officially over, the question mark from our previous story can be removed, and the Radiohead/Trent Reznor/Jack White post major label club has a new member. Adams’ first official Pax-Am digital release, “Lost and Found”/”Go Ahead and Rain,” is now available on Ryanada.ms for $1.49 as a digital download pre-order for this Friday (9/11).

Sure, an MP3 release doesn’t confirm our “Ryan Adams to Relaunch Vinyl Label?” post, but a video of the production for an upcoming Adams vinyl release pretty much does the trick. Meanwhile, Adams also posted a video of a third brand new track earlier this week.

Is it just me or are we starting to settle in to this whole self-released music revolution?

Can't wait for Friday!

Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - The War Memorial Auditorium - 2009-03-15

Our good friend Chris from Tennessee attended this show back in March near the end of The Cards' last tour and he just told me to check it out. Well, it's fantastic, a 39 track, 30 song set. Notice the new guitar parts in quite a few of the tracks, they were feelin' good that night. The download is courtesy of the Live Music Archive.

Superb sound on this one, better than most soundboards.

Disc I

01. intro
02. I See Monsters
03. Fix It
04. Everybody Knows
05. (false start)
06. Crossed-Out Name
07. Come Pick Me Up
08. Cobwebs
09. Two
10. Freeway To The Canyon
11. talking
12. "Same Shirt As Neal" improv
13. Beautiful Sorta
14. talking
15. Let It Ride
16. Natural Ghost
17. Grand Island
18. band introductions
19. Born Into A Light
20. When The Stars Go Blue
21. Evening Joke with Jon Graboff

Disc II

22. Goodnight Rose
23. Lost Satellite
24. The Rescue Blues
25. Oh My God, Whatever, Etc
26. The Sun Also Sets
27. Why Do They Leave?
28. Bartering Lines
29. Shakedown On 9th Street
30. A Kiss Before I Go
31. talking
32. Magick
33. encore break
34. Wonderwall
35. Sink Ships
36. Cold Roses
37. Mockingbird
38. Dear Chicago
39. This Is It

Download - Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - The War Memorial Auditorium - 2009-03-15

New Norah Jones Album w/ Ryan Adams Collaboration

From Jambase.com:

Multiple Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter Norah Jones will release her fourth studio album on Blue Note Records this November. Jones wrote nearly all of the songs in the past two years since completing tours in support of her 2007 global chart-topping, U.S. double-platinum album Not Too Late.

Beloved by fans for her sultry vocals and jazz-informed, piano-driven pop songwriting, Jones has taken a new direction on the as-yet-untitled album, seeing it as a chance to experiment with different sounds and an opportunity to work with a new set of collaborators, including Jacquire King, a noted producer and engineer who has worked with Kings of Leon, Tom Waits, and Modest Mouse among others. Jones also enlisted several songwriting collaborators, including Ryan Adams and Okkervil River's Will Sheff, as well as her frequent partner Jesse Harris.

"I knew I wanted to try some different things on this album," Jones says. "I'd been playing with the same musicians for a long time. We're all still friendly and I hope we play together again, but it felt like a good time to work with new people and experiment with different sounds. As far as a producer, I wanted someone who could take me out of my comfort zone and find the right musicians to capture what I wanted to do with this collection of songs. I got in touch with Jacquire initially because he engineered one of my favorite records of all time, Tom Waits' Mule Variations. He was really eager to do it and we got along really well, which was important."

King helped Jones put together a new group of musicians to perform on the album, including drummers Joey Waronker (Beck, R.E.M.) and James Gadson (Bill Withers), keyboardist James Poyser (Erykah Badu, Al Green), and guitarists Marc Ribot (Tom Waits, Elvis Costello) and Smokey Hormel (Johnny Cash, Joe Strummer). Jones and King tailored the songs to the musicians' strengths. "I think the record sounds different due to the variety of musicians we used," Jones says, "I knew I wanted to play with grooves more than I have on previous albums. Some of these new songs lent themselves to having driving rhythms underneath."

Another noticeable change on Jones' upcoming album is that she plays mostly guitar. "I actually write more on guitar than I do on piano," she says. "It just felt more natural for me to play it on these songs."

Since coming on the scene in 2002, Jones has sold a collective 36 million albums worldwide. Her three studio albums, 2002's eight-time Grammy Award-winning Come Away With Me, 2004's Feels Like Home, and 2007's Not Too Late have each topped the Billboard top 200 album charts in the U.S. and gone to No. 1 around the world. All three have been certified multi-platinum, while Come Away With Me has been certified diamond. Since 2007, Jones has collaborated with a number of artists, including Herbie Hancock, Talib Kweli, Willie Nelson, Q-Tip, Irma Thomas, and Andy Samberg's comedy troupe The Lonely Island. She has also contributed to various soundtracks, including Ken Burns' The War, Ethan Hawke's The Hottest State, and Wong Kar-wai's My Blueberry Nights, as well as the Fats Domino tribute album Goin' Home. In 2007, Jones starred opposite Jude Law in My Blueberry Nights and made a cameo in this year's season finale of 30 Rock. Also this year, Jones was featured as a flagship artist on Apple's GarageBand, presenting a tutorial on how to perform her song "Thinking About You."

More details about Norah Jones' upcoming album will be announced soon.

Ryan Adams - Rough & Mellow (1994-2009)

Our dear (and new) friend darkrendar passed this collection along to me. This is a shit load of amazing work. I'll let his words describe it, thank you so much darkrendar.

"A collection of live recordings of unreleased songs by Ryan Adams, of which no demo or studio recordings are available. I compiled and worked on it in my spare time for a couple of years. A lot of these were only played once, if not I picked the one that sounded best to me, when different recordings were available. Since there are so many great live recordings you can find nearly every song ever played. The last two discs are a collection of Jams & Improvs by The Cardinals. "

Ordinarily I would put the track listing up but this is packing 173 tracks, refer to the info file. Let me just say this is an amazing amazing amazing piece of work. Darkrendar, you out did yourself. He is also responsible for the Darkbreaker Live set up at Coughing Up Blood and Whiskey, our sister site. I'm taking donations to get this guy some upscale escorts, email me with donations!

Disc 1 (1994-1997)

Disc 2 (1998-1999)

Disc 3 (2000-2001)

Disc 4 (2001-2002)

Disc 5 (2002-2003)

Disc 6 (2004-2008)

Disc 7 - Cardinal Jams (2005-2006)

Disc 8 - Cardinal Jams (2007-2009)

Info

Ryan Adams - Fix It & Magick

Grabbed this from Sound Cloud. I LOVE this version of Fix It and it is absolutely one of my favorite versions. Magick is the acoustic demo that was on his website.

Ryan Adams Sound Cloud

Download - Ryan Adams - Fix It
Download - Ryan Adams - Magick

Ryan Adams - Mountain Stage - State Capitol Cultural Center Theatre - Charleston, WV - 2000-10-08

FM source.

I love "Gimme Sunshine."

1. Intro
2. Oh My Sweet Carolina
3. Gimme Sunshine
4. Sweet Lil' Gal
5. To Be Young, Is To Be Sad, Is To Be High

Download - Ryan Adams - Mountain Stage - State Capitol Cultural Center Theatre - Charleston, WV - 2000-10-08

Werewolph

Here are the songs that are streaming at www.werewolph.com

Dead People Unite
Evil Weekend
Mega Wizards

Download - Werewolph

Ryan on Twitter

We knew he couldn't tear himself away from the interweb for too long. The Cardinal Cave might be a thing of the past, but it's official: Ryan is on Twitter. I found this out yesterday when I attempted to go to his site and it redirected me to "ryanada.ms." The same thing happened to me when I attempted to go to Cardinology's website. Here's the link for all of you that are interested.

http://twitter.com/ryanada_ms

I'll put Mandy's on here, too, because Ryan hijacked it the other day and "tweeted" a bit (is that right? "Tweeted?"), and I found it pretty comical. 

http://twitter.com/themandymoore

ALSO, I had the opportunity to see the Cardinals TWICE last week, night two of Nashville and the "farewell" at the Fox. So I will be updating you on those late on in the week. But damn, they were delicious. Enjoy the tweets for now!

Ryan Adams performs in The Current studios

Wedding Story

From www.people.com

http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20265456,00.html

Mandy Moore's Simple Wedding Has Tears, Romance

By Polly Powers Stramm and Mike Fleeman

Originally posted Thursday March 12, 2009 08:25 PM EDT

Forget the trappings of show business. All Mandy Moore and Ryan Adams needed for the perfect wedding were a tiny old brick church, a pastor they just met, a pair of silver bands and each other.

"She was thrilled to be getting married. She was giddy but not in a childish way. She was obviously so happy," Pastor Steve Schulte, who married the couple this week at Whitefield Chapel at Bethesda Home for Boys on the outskirts of Savannah, Ga., tells PEOPLE exclusively.

The couple, who just got engaged last month, arranged for a last-minute ceremony, with one of their reps calling Schulte just the day before, saying a judge wasn't available and asking if the pastor could officiate. "I thought it was either somebody famous or somebody really bad," says Schulte, who agreed to the job, bringing along only a friend, wedding planner Chad Baker – and that was because they had another wedding event later in the day.

Casual Dress

A little after 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, a black town car pulled up to the church on the breathtakingly beautiful grounds with blooming azaleas, dogwood trees, giant old live oaks dripping with Spanish moss. Out stepped Moore and Adams and two other men.

The couple dressed down: Moore, 24, wore a cream-colored, lacy tea-length dress and flat sandals, and Adams, 34, had on tight skinny jeans, a T-shirt with sport coat and sneakers. Schulte greeted them, and even when he heard their names, he didn't know who they were.

Only Moore, Adams and Schulte went inside the brick chapel with stained-glass windows and about a dozen wooden pews and a center aisle. (Baker stayed out in Schulte's car.)

In the eight-minute ceremony, the couple held hands and faced each other as they exchanged silver rings purchased from a local jeweler. Tears welled in Moore's eyes and her voice quivered as she took Adams to be her husband.

The Couple Kiss

"I now pronounce you husband and wife," Schulte said, and the couple kissed. After the pastor congratulated them, he shook Adams's hand and hugged Moore.

As the couple walked out of the church, Adams turned and took Moore's face in both of his hands and gave her another kiss. They then walked to a little footbridge near the chapel where they hugged and kissed.

"It was so romantic. It was awesome," says Baker. "I just can't stress how happy they seemed."

Congrats

Perez Hilton

Pink Is The New Blog

Perez:

Sources reveal exclusively to PerezHilton.com that Mandy Moore and Ryan Adams got married on Tuesday!

The pair had a small, simple ceremony in Savannah, Georgia.

Moore and Adams got engaged last month and dated on-and-off for about a year.

A friend of Mandy's tells us, "She's very very happy." And another source confirms that Adams is completely head-over-heels about her and a changed man.

Congrats to the happy couple!

Ryan Adams - Live at The Boardwalk - 2000-11-19

Solo acoustic set from our boy. What I would give to see Ryan in this setting. Thanks Tears of Gold project.

Ryan Adams
Sheffield the Boardwalk, UK
19. november 2000

01. To Be Young
02. Oh My Sweet Carolina
03. Chin Up, Cheer Up
04. Call Me on Your Way Back Home
05. Damn Sam (I Love a Woman that Rains)
06. Memories of You
07. -Improv - Kayak Song
08. Tell It To My Heart
09. My Winding Wheel
10. Don't Ask For The Water
11. What Sin Replaces Love
12. Just Like a Whore

Encore:

13. Come Pick Me Up
14. Dancing With The Woman At The Bar
15. Like the Twilight

Download - Ryan Adams - Live at The Boardwalk - 2000-11-19

Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - The Missouri Theater - 2009-2-26

The show that we just recently attended. I have to say, they sound great. Sadly, it is plagued by chatter. Still awesome. Thanks tapers!

01 Intro
02 I See Monsters
03 Everybody Knows
04 Fix It
05 Let It Ride
06 Two
07 Peaceful Valley
08 Mockingbird
09 Cold Roses
10 Oh My Sweet Carolina
11 Band Intros
12 Wonderwall
13 Grand Island
14 Damn, Sam (I Love A Woman That Rains)
15 When The Stars Go Blue
16 Freeway To The Canyon
17 Rescue Blues (Graboff on guitar)
18 Oh My God, Whatever, Etc
19 Goodnight Rose

Download - Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - The Missouri Theater - 2009-2-26

Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - Euro Tour 2008 Compilation

This is really fantastic. Thanks RAA. All files are in FLAC format, sorry, no MP3.

MFC - Euro Tour 2008 Compilation

Disc I

01. Cobwebs (#)
02. Everybody Knows (+)
03. Sink Ships ($)
04. Born Into A Light (&)
05. When The Stars Go Blue (&)
06. Fix It (*)
07. Natural Ghost (*)
08. Evergreen (#)
09. Goodnight Rose (#)
10. Wonderwall (@)
11. Come Pick Me Up (~)
12. The Sun Also Sets (*)
13. I Taught Myself How To Grow Old (+)
14. Off Broadway (@)

Disc II

01. Grand Island (Neal Casal) (!)
02. Go Easy (%)
03. Crossed Out Name (&)
04. Let It Ride (^)
05. Desire (^)
06. Cold Roses (+)
07. La Cienega Just Smiled (%)
08. Freeway To The canyon (Neal Casal) (%)
09. band introductions
10. The Rescue Blues (%)
11. Like Yesterday (*)
12. Stop (~)
13. Two (!)
14. Easy Plateau / Witches Destroy Hospitol (!)

Disc III

01. The Gargle Song (improv) (~)
02. Please Do Not Let Me Go (+)
03. Why Do They Leave? ($)
04. How Do You Keep Love Alive? (!)
05. Peaceful Valley (!)
06. The End (^)
07. Games (^)
08. banter and bass solo
09. Magnolia Mountain (&)
10. Meadowlake Street (&)
11. Mockingbird (@)
12. Dear John (@)
13. A Kiss Before I Go (^)
14. Shakedown On 9th Street (~)
15. I See Monsters (*)

bonus track:
16. Times Like These (Foo Fighters) (BBC Studios, London, England 8th November 2008)


Key:
* = Ambassador Theatre, Dublin, Ireland 8th November 2008
$ = The Academy, Manchester, England 10th November 2008
! = The Academy, Newcastle, England 11th November 2008
^ = The Academy, Leeds, England 13th November 2008
& = The Picture House, Edinburgh, Scotland 14th November 2008
+ = Corn Exchange, Cambridge, England 16th November 2008
@ = The Academy, Birmingham, England 17th November 2008
# = The Dome, Brighton, England 19th November 2008
% = Brixton Academy, London, England 20th November 2008
~ = Guildhall, Southampton, England 22nd November 2008


Download - Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - Euro Tour 2008 Compilation 1-1
Download - Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - Euro Tour 2008 Compilation 1-2

Download - Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - Euro Tour 2008 Compilation 2-1
Download - Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - Euro Tour 2008 Compilation 2-2

Download - Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - Euro Tour 2008 Compilation 3-1
Download - Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - Euro Tour 2008 Compilation 3-2