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Ryan Adams is a multiple-Grammy-nominated singer songwriter from Jacksonville, NC who has released a veritable onslaught of critically acclaimed and commercially successful albums since 2000. Among the most recent of these was September 2014’s Ryan Adams. Written and produced by Adams, the album led off with “Gimme Something Good,” the first vinyl single to go #1 at the Amazon.com music store, and entered the Billboard chart at career high #4. The album earned two nominations at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards: Best Rock Song for “Gimme Something Good” and Best Rock Album. In Fall 2015, Adams commemorated the release of his full-album cover of Taylor Swift’s 1989 by appearing as the first music guest on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, then opening Jimmy Kimmel Live’s week of shows airing from New York, playing (of course) “Welcome To New York” from 1989.
Among the other monuments in the Adams canon are: Ashes & Fire, his 2011 Glyn Johns-produced “”gorgeous, shimmering solo album” 2007’s Easy Tiger which opened on the U.S. chart with Ryan’s biggest first week sales to date and wound down the year with “Halloweenhead” making Rolling Stone’s Best Songs of 2007; 2005’s Cold Roses and Jacksonville City Nights; 2004’s Love Is Hell; Ryan’s 2001 major label debut Gold, which has sold nearly a million copies worldwide to date and features “When Stars Go Blue,” quoted in Stephen King’s Lisey’s Story and widely known as “”that Tim McGraw song the kid did on American Idol”” or “”the song the Corrs did with Bono”; and his 2000 solo debut Heartbreaker, released on Bloodshot Records and including “My Winding Wheel,Oh My Sweet Carolina (featuring Emmylou Harris) and “Come Pick Me Up.”

Ryan Adams is also CEO of his own PAX-AM label through which he has released numerous singles and albums including the 15-LP exclusive vinyl edition of his 2012 Live After Deaf box set that sold out its entire pressing in eight minutes. He has also produced albums for Jenny Lewis, La Sera, Fall Out Boy, Willie Nelson, Jesse Malin, and collaborated with Norah Jones, America, Cowboy Junkies, Beth Orton and many others. His current band The Shining has accompanied him on world spanning rave-reviewed tours since 2014.”

Ryan Adams and the Shining, “When The Stars Go Blue” – Outside Lands 2016 – Aug. 7th

Ryan Adams (Jason Isbell) – Oh My Sweet Carolina, Let It Ride & To Be Young – August 7th SF-Live at Outside Lands Festival

Full Setlist 

    • Trouble
    • Gimme Something Good
    • New York, New York
    • When The Stars Go Blue
    • Let It Ride  
    • Shakedown on 9th Street
    • Cold Roses  
    • Fix It  
    • To Be Young (Is to Be Sad, Is to Be High)
    • Everybody Knows
    • Goodbye Two Balloons (improv)  
    • Magnolia Mountain  
    • Oh My Sweet Carolina
    • Peaceful Valley

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=212&v=-ntpKjTupF4

Two of the best singer-songwriters going, Jason Isbell and Ryan Adams, played sets right after each other on the Sutro Stage at San Francisco’s Outside Lands festival on Sunday. Jason and Ryan swapped guest spots as Adams emerged to help Isbell on a Rolling Stones cover, while later in the night Isbell emerged to sit-in with Ryan Adams & The Shining.

Adams took the stage a half-hour early, joining Isbell and the 400 Unit – minus fiddle player Amanda Shires, who spent the weekend debuting songs from her upcoming solo release My Piece of Land at the Open Highway Festival in St. Louis – on a loose cover of the Rolling Stones’ Sticky Fingers deep cut “Sway.” Isbell, Adams and guitarist Sadler Vaden all traded solos throughout the five-minute tune, with the entire band chiming in on harmonies during the chorus. An hour or so later, Isbell returned the favor, strapping on his Telecaster and joining Adams for a gorgeous take on the Heartbreaker ballad “Oh My Sweet Carolina.”

Close friends for years, Adams and Isbell shared three different tours during the 18 months leading up to Isbell’s breakthrough album,Southeastern. They’ve teamed up for one-off performances several times since then, with Isbell and Shires mostly recently joining Adams during his 2015 performance at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. Together, the two men represent pillars of Americana’s past and present, with Adams‘ solo debut Heartbreaker playing a role in kickstarting the genre back in 2000, and Isbell’s most recent release Something More Than Free standing tall as the Grammy Awards’ reigning Best Americana Album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HF4NeakVLRc

Jason Isbell brought out Ryan Adams for the last song of his set, a cover of The Rolling Stones’ “Sway.” Adams added guitar and took a solo as part of the performance of “Sway.” The cover came to a close with Ryan and Jason dueling it out on guitar. Ryan performed at Outside Lands with his latest band, The Shining. Adams brought out Isbell towards the end of his set to help out on “Oh My Sweet Carolina.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6-Xws8h5f4