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Some more cover tunes.
Cash’s “Fulsom Prison Blues” Done sort of rockabilly style.

Dave Van Ronk’s arrangement of “House of the Rising Sun” as an homage to the prison gang work songs.

Nine Inch Nails’ “Hurt”. Anyone who has ever been an addict has a connection to this song.

Bruce Springsteen’s “I’m On Fire” - One of the Boss’ […]

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This is just a fantastically poignant song. I’d love it even if it weren’t for the video. I understand that this is old news to those in the UK (and that some are even burnt on the song over there) but most over here haven’t heard or seen this.
The video was […]

Some of my cover tunes for your listening enjoyment –or not. I’ll freely admit that some are better than others, and that a couple were done while under the influence of copious amounts of alcohol, so they can be a bit “pitchy” in places. The recording quality varies depending on whether I was in the […]

Today we’ve got The White Buffalo (aka Jake Smith) out of Portland by San Diego; Nathan Asher and the Infantry out of Raleigh, NC; Lori McKenna out of Stoughton, MA; a three-fer of Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, out of Nashville; and the late Elliott Smith, formerly of Portland, now of the afterlife and whatever […]

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A little musical aside. I recently recorded a cover version of “Smells Like Teen Spirit”, you can check it out here:
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Also, the player has been updated to include 30 of my songs (of varying quality), check ‘em out.

They carved your name into a stone
And they put it in the ground
I run my fingers through the grooves when no one’s around.
Drink ’til I’m sick
and I talk to myself
in the dog days of the summer
And I feel you coming but I don’t know how.
September.
*(c) Ryan Adams

Some new tunes (finally) in the B-Sides player. They are from my press kit and are the ones I send out to venues to book gigs so they are very stripped down to show my live sound.

I am a longtime Lori McKenna fan and booster. Ever since I heard her in 2002 I have been awestruck by her powerful talent. I write frequently about her on this blog, and reviewed Faith Hill’s record that contained three McKenna tunes last month. I am happy to report that Lori just got signed by […]

K, I’m away from the keyboard until after Sunday. I promised not to talk about my music stuff here so I won’t tell ya why…

Ok, I’ll tell.
I’m finishing up changes to two new websites and recording songs for a big folk music festival that I am going to be playing at this weekend. […]

Well, the split is complete. I have been AWOL the last few days getting things in order over at the temporary site of Bindlestiff Records. You’ll notice that the playlist has changed here at the B-sides back to other artists. If you were linking directly to my songs and still want that version of the […]

I know I said no more music posts for a while, but I completely missed this:FOXNews.com - Foxlife - Man Charged in Marc Cohn Shooting
I had no idea he was shot. Marc Cohn is a hugely under rated songwriter and one of my favorite artists. “Silver Thunderbird” is a gorgeous song. Glad he’s still kickin’.

This blog has always been a bit ecclectic as it reflects the interests of its author. You might stop by and read a serious discussion of geo political or military matters but you might just as easily find song lyrics or a recipe for an MRE ham sandwich. My posts have been heavily slanted toward […]

Nickel Creek’s third studio was released August 9th and it is breathtaking. As with their second album “This Side”, this album moves further away from their bluegrass roots and moves Chris Thile’s fire hot mandolin more to the rear of the arrangements letting the songwriting shine. Make no mistake this is not a bluegrass album; […]

I had planned to offer the studio single for “My Pretty Ones” available for download in a couple of weeks through iTunes, Rhapsody, Napster and others. This would have been well in advance of the release date of a full (self-released) album in November. I will be entering into a distribution agreement that will postpone […]

Just thought I would send a probe out into the uninhabited space that is the weekend blogosphere (ya know, it works in reverse on the rest of the Internet: traffic picks up on the weekend). I finished setting up my home studio today and finalized some equipment and noise issues.
I hate audio engineering and production. […]

As long time readers are well aware I think Lori Mckenna is a devastatingly good singer/songwriter. She is on album #4 now (the stellar “Bittertown”) and still relatively unknown except by audiophiles like myself –though she does have some mighty famous fans like Zach Braff, and Faith Hill. She cranks out some of the best […]

Looks like Rolling Rock is throwing a party. They’ve invited a few bands like Live, The Bloodhound Gang, The Clarks, Rusted Root, and The Julliana Theory. They’ve also invited the entire military free of charge (all active duty and reserve members is what the invite says, but I’m guessing a Retired ID card would get […]