David Ryan Adams was born on November 5,1974 and is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, artist, and poet.
85 Facts About Ryan Adams
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Ryan Adams has released 24 studio albums and three as a former member of Whiskeytown.
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In 2000, Adams left Whiskeytown and released his debut solo album, Heartbreaker, to critical acclaim.
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In 2009, after the release of Cardinology, Ryan Adams disbanded The Cardinals and announced an extended break from music due to complications from Meniere's disease.
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In 2015, Ryan Adams released 1989, a song-for-song cover of Taylor Swift's album of the same name, and worked on up to 80 songs for an album influenced by his divorce from actress and singer-songwriter Mandy Moore.
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In 2019, Ryan Adams announced three albums to be released that year.
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Ryan Adams later issued an apology, and the FBI cleared him of any potential criminal charges.
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Ryan Adams eventually released the planned albums, Wednesdays, Big Colors, and Chris, yearly from 2020 to 2022.
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Ryan Adams has written Infinity Blues, a book of poems, and Hello Sunshine, a collection of poems and short stories.
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David Ryan Adams was born on November 5,1974, in Jacksonville, North Carolina.
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Ryan Adams is the middle of three children with an older brother and younger sister.
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Ryan Adams's father left when he was five at which time he, his mother and his siblings had to move in with his grandparents since they became homeless as a result of the divorce.
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Ryan Adams's brother died in 2017 of an undisclosed illness.
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At the age of eight, Ryan Adams began writing short stories and limericks on his grandmother's typewriter.
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Ryan Adams dropped out of Jacksonville High School in 10th grade, at the age of 16, subsequently moving into bandmate Jere McIlwean's rental house, just outside Jacksonville.
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Whiskeytown saw Ryan Adams move to alt-country, describing punk rock as "too hard to sing" in the title track of Whiskeytown's debut album Faithless Street.
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Ryan Adams made his solo debut in 2000, with Heartbreaker.
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Ryan Adams initially refused to promote the record through radio station meet-and-greets and other music-industry conventions, instead opting for more recording and some live dates.
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The label opted this time around to cherry pick from four of Ryan Adams' recorded albums it had already dismissed as unreleasable to create Demolition, released in September 2002.
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Ryan Adams starred in a Gap advertisement with Willie Nelson, performing a cover of Hank Williams's "Move It on Over".
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In May 2002, Ryan Adams joined Elton John on CMT Crossroads, which brings together country artists with musicians from other genres.
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Also in 2002, Ryan Adams reportedly recorded a cover of The Strokes' debut album Is This It, though it has never been publicly released.
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In 2002 and 2003, Ryan Adams worked on recording Love Is Hell, intending to release it in 2003.
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Ryan Adams' songwriting received additional exposure when Joan Baez included his song "In My Time of Need", from his debut release, on her 2003 album Dark Chords on a Big Guitar.
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Also released in 2003, Adams formed a punk band called The Finger with Jesse Malin, Colin Burns, and Johnny T Yerington.
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Ryan Adams and Lost Highway Records eventually agreed that the label would release Rock N Roll as well as Love Is Hell, on the condition that Love Is Hell be split into two EP installments.
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Ryan Adams fell off the end of the stage into the lowered orchestra pit six feet below, while performing "The Shadowlands".
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The year 2005 saw Ryan Adams join with backing band The Cardinals to produce two albums, Cold Roses and Jacksonville City Nights.
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Ryan Adams befriended Phil Lesh of the Grateful Dead, after first meeting him at the Jammys awards in New York in 2005.
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Ryan Adams performed at subsequent outings of Phil Lesh and Friends, including a two-night stand at Red Rocks Amphitheatre outside of Denver, Colorado and on New Year's Eve 2005 at the Bill Graham Event Center in San Francisco.
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In early 2006 Ryan Adams performed a solo tour of the United Kingdom, often accompanied by Brad Pemberton and on the final date in London by Carina Round, who performed harmony vocals on 'Come Pick Me Up' from his first solo album- 'Heartbreaker'.
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Ryan Adams then toured the United States with The Cardinals, including a performance at Lollapalooza in Chicago.
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Ryan Adams produced Willie Nelson's album Songbird, while he and The Cardinals performed as Nelson's backing band.
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Ryan Adams opened for Nelson at the Hollywood Bowl later that fall, a show that featured Phil Lesh on bass and multiple Grateful Dead songs.
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Late in 2006, Ryan Adams experimented with hip hop music, adding to his web site 18 albums worth of new recordings under various pseudonyms, featuring humorous and nonsensical lyrics, as well as covers of two Bob Dylan songs.
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Ryan Adams was scheduled to play Stonehenge when the Stonehenge society had to cancel the gigs to an overwhelming response to email or call-in for free tickets.
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Ryan Adams released his ninth album on June 26,2007, titled Easy Tiger.
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Ryan Adams appeared as a guest musician on Cowboy Junkies' 2007 album and DVD Trinity Revisited, a 20th-anniversary re-recording of their classic album The Trinity Session.
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In 2007 Ryan Adams co-wrote a song with Australian singer-songwriter Krista Polvere for her debut record Here Be Dragons; he played guitar and piano on the album, which was recorded in New York.
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Ryan Adams has announced plans to release a book, entitled Infinity Blues.
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On January 14,2009, Ryan Adams announced that he was quitting the Cardinals after their final show on March 20,2009, at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta.
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Ryan Adams cited hearing loss due to Meniere's disease as well as disillusionment with the music industry, the media and audience behavior as reasons for his decision.
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Ryan Adams stated that he has been working on two new books, in addition to Infinity Blues.
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Ryan Adams has dismissed any possibility of a reunion in the near future, saying it wouldn't be right after the death of Cardinals bassist Chris 'Spacewolf' Feinstein.
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In September 2009, Ryan Adams debuted a new song online, entitled "Happy Birthday", and began releasing singles, featuring previously unreleased material, from his new record label, PAX AM.
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In March 2010, Ryan Adams announced a new metal-influenced album, entitled Orion, to be released on his PAX AM label.
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On October 29,2010, Ryan Adams played his first live show since stepping down from the Cardinals in March 2009, at a benefit hosted by Judd Apatow.
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Ryan Adams was backed by Marshall Vore, Sebastian Steinberg and former Cardinal Jamie Candiloro, who were billed as "The Ryan Adams Band".
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In 2011, Ryan Adams announced a European tour, and noted that he was working on a new studio album with producer Glyn Johns.
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Ryan Adams performed several new songs, as well as "Oh My Sweet Carolina" with Emmy, a track they recorded for 2000's Heartbreaker.
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On June 16,2011, through his Twitter account, Ryan Adams suggested that his album Blackhole could be released around Christmas.
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In early 2012, Ryan Adams was nominated for a Brit Award for Best International Male.
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On June 18,2012, Ryan Adams released a live box set chronicling his return to live performances, entitled Live After Deaf.
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In July 2013, Ryan Adams collaborated as a producer with rock band Fall Out Boy at his PAX AM Studio, which resulted in Fall Out Boy's PAX AM Days EP.
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On March 19,2013, Ryan Adams played a live show with a full band for the first time since the Cardinals disbanded.
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The venue's website stated that Ryan Adams was playing new songs from a forthcoming album.
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On July 1,2014, stories emerged that a self-titled album, Ryan Adams, would be released on September 9,2014.
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Since this announcement, Ryan Adams has released a 7-inch vinyl EP, entitled 1984 and announced tour dates through mid October 2014.
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Ryan Adams debuted several new songs from the self-titled album in a series of festival concerts in late July 2014.
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On September 9,2014, the self-titled album Ryan Adams was released on PAX-AM records.
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On December 5,2014, "Gimme Something Good", a song from the Ryan Adams album, was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Rock Song.
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Ryan Adams released multiple clips via Twitter and Instagram showcasing his takes on Swift's songs.
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Ryan Adams said in October 2016 that he would never cover another full album again following the recording of 1989.
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On December 6,2016, Ryan Adams announced a new album, Prisoner.
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In 2018, Ryan Adams released a stand-alone single, "Baby I Love You", and contributed one song, "20th Call of the Day", to the Juliet, Naked soundtrack.
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In January 2019, Ryan Adams announced his plans to release three albums that calendar year.
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On December 11,2020, Ryan Adams eventually surprise-released Wednesdays, which features "I'm Sorry and I Love You" as well as several tracks originally announced for inclusion on Big Colors.
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On March 2,2022, Ryan Adams announced his first headlining show since the New York Times article.
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Devolver was released as a free download along with a statement from Ryan Adams thanking his fans for their support.
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Ryan Adams announced further shows in Fall and Winter of 2022 and then his long awaited return to the UK for April 2023.
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Ryan Adams was engaged to singer-songwriter Leona Naess, but the engagement ended in 2003.
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In 2008, Ryan Adams began dating singer-songwriter and actress Mandy Moore.
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In 2007, Ryan Adams revealed that he had endured "an extended period of substance abuse" that ended in 2006.
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Ryan Adams indicated that he routinely snorted heroin mixed with cocaine, and abused alcohol and pills.
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Ryan Adams beat his addiction with the assistance of his girlfriend at the time, Jessica Joffe, using Valium therapy and occasionally attending 12-step meetings.
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Ryan Adams celebrated one year of sobriety with the free release of his album Devolver on September 23,2022.
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Ryan Adams reacted with a stream of expletives, and ordered the house lights turned on, The Tennessean newspaper reported.
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Ryan Adams eventually found the fan who made the joke-request, paid him $30 cash as a refund for the show, ordered him to leave, and said he would not play another note until he had left.
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Ryan Adams left an angry message on critic Jim DeRogatis's answering-machine, in response to a scathing review DeRogatis gave of an Ryan Adams show in 2003.
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On February 13,2019, The New York Times reported that seven women said Ryan Adams offered to assist them with their music careers, then pursued the women romantically.
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On March 1,2019, SJM Concerts released a statement that Ryan Adams's upcoming tour of Britain and Ireland, which had been scheduled to start in Dublin on March 30,2019, had been cancelled and that full refunds would be issued to ticket holders.
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In July 2020, Ryan Adams issued a statement in the Daily Mail apologizing for his actions.
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Ryan Adams is recognized for his highly prolific songwriting and a singing style that resembles that of a country rocker, even though he played punk rock in the early part of his career.
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Ryan Adams has frequently experimented with different genres, although for the major part of his career his musical style has been alternative rock.
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Ryan Adams is one of the few artists to emerge from the alt-country scene into mainstream commercial success.