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| Chin Up, Cheer Up | |||
| When The Stars Go Blue | |||
| My Winding Wheel | |||
| La Cienega Just Smiled | |||
| Wharf Rat > New York, New York > Wharf Rat | |||
| Nightbirds (aborted) | |||
| Beautiful Sorta | |||
| Magnolia Mountain | |||
| Encore | |||
| Solitaire (with Jesse Malin) | |||
| Jacksonville Skyline | |||
| Sweet Illusions | |||
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From the Chicago Tribune: CONCERT REVIEWS Ryan Adams doesn't have his act together By Bob Gendron, Special to the Tribune Published November 15, 2004 Oooh, that Ryan Adams is a sly one. Nearly a year removed from playing an erratic local show that was famously lambasted by the media, Adams decided he'd get the last laugh. On the morning of his Friday concert at Riviera, his record label canceled all press tickets. But Adams can't control access to scalpers. And as evidenced from his sloppy 1 1/2-hour set, he's not even certain of himself. Backed by The Cardinals, Adams treated the affair like band practice. After taking more than an hour to hit the stage, he didn't say a word to the audience until the encore, and when he finally spoke, his comments were sardonic nonsense. He flubbed the beginnings of several songs, abruptly stopped performing in the middle of others and turned the Grateful Dead's "Wharf Rat" into an exercise in aimless repetition. Singing in hushed, tortured-soul tones, Adams bared genuine emotion on "When the Stars Go Blue" and "Oh My Sweet Carolina," as well as on a handful of midtempo country-folk and blues-rock originals. But such poignant moments were few and far between, the problems exacerbated by a sluggish quartet that played behind instead of with its glum leader. ... |
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