fizzzzy:

letitride:

Ryan Adams & The Sweetheart Revolution, “Dance All Night”
Manchester Acadamy, UK (Oct 2001)

God, the audio is fantastic. <3

is it cliche to want this as your wedding song? because i seriously do.

i’m probably think not-generally-populace-cliche-but-tumblr-cliche.

mirza:

Fuck You Tumblarity.

and how.

Time Bandits

I remember seeing this on TV. I was about 4 or 5 and it freaked me out so much it made me feel physically ill. I’m not really sure why, but then again, I waited for Santa and the Tooth Fairy with a baseball bat in my bed.

I have been so busy lately I feel like my brain does nothing except what is required of it. There’s no freedom of thought; it’s locked up and ailing somehow. The bad thing is that I’m not sure how to fix it and make it heal. I have no creativity left in me. Music is a JOB (not complaining, but it has altered my relationship with it because I feel like I’m just a jukebox. baaaah.), I have to read so much for school I don’t enjoy reading for pleasure, and by the end of the day I’m so tired I can’t sleep. I’m not sure how to find a balance. Getting more regimented would probably help, but that bores me. My new guitar is hanging there on the wall because I am totally uninspired. Tumblr has become someplace I come to leech off of the thoughts of others without really contributing because my brain has nothing left. It’s squeezed dry. Like a lemon you try to juice twice and has sat on the counter all afternoon…in the sun. I’m a dry lemon brain.

ryanadamsfansite:

“Am I going to try to function as a human being…or do I just walk away because I’m not tough enough…Or because my name almost sounds like ‘Bryan’ Adams? Sometimes I don’t know how I didn’t collapse under the pressure I was putting on myself…All that art probably kept me alive, kept my heart alive. Sometimes I’m not surprised I’m more jaded than I am…Which is why people call me ‘David-Making-Friends-Across-America-Adams.’ “

—Ryan Adams, with Mary Louise Parker at NYPL

25 Sep 2009

http://media.nypl.org/audio/live_2009_09_25_parker_adams.mp3

motionsensorsoundtrack:

In Your Bones

A song made I up  with lyrics from other songs and (some new ones too) with new music. Ya gotta find something to do…We played this at our last show. We hadn’t planned on it and hadn’t played it in a while. We just kinda threw it in at the end. It was one of the best ones we did and everyone’s favorties. That’s the way life works…you spend time practicing stuff and then the impromptu stuff gets all the lovin.

oh yes, this will be going through my head.

ewokonline:

Super Extra Bonus Points if you can find the Springsteen reference I put into that Dylan song. I added something on a line that makes it reference a very specific line from one of Bruce’s songs.

410 ‘on my lap’ of course!

ewokonline:

Hey!

I just covered a Dylan song.

“From A Buick 6”

holy. shit. this is SO good!

I went out around 2 and just drove. I rolled the windows down and opened the sun roof to let the Autumnal air blow my hair around, got some good coffee and an apple fritter, put on Suicide Handbook (and then The Stockholm Sessions..and if you are a DRA fan and don’t know these…shame on you!) and just drooooove. I ended up at a music store where,after 3 hours of playing, I bought……drumroll…..

A TAKAMINE EF341SC!!

It was used, but at just under $700 it was a steal. I bought the service plan (which was also a good deal), so hopefully I’m covered. The coolest thing? After picking it out of 2o odd guitars I played (I just kept going back to it) it turns out to be a model Bruce Springsteen plays.

Such a great day.

ewokonline:

Drinking whiskey.

Smoking cigarettes.

Maybe I should be productive and write.

Such a great way to pass the time.

Har Mar Superstar- DUI

DAMMIT if I don’t find this video like a train wreck. It’s horrifying, but I can’t look away and IT’S STUCK IN MY HEAD!!

He played after the band I sung with this weekend and he was..well…kind of freakish in person. But damn this crazy little man can sing.

So I went to see a popular ( in Southern California) rockabilly/swing band tonight. During a song they threw me a tambourine (why? No idea.) and then pushed me onstage. Not knowing that I kinda do this for a living they were surprised that I rocked that silly little instrument and then I was singing backup. The next thing I knew I was being asked back tomorrow night to sing lead for a few songs and they’re coming to one of my gigs. These guys know BB King, have played with Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Jerry Lee Lewis… whoa. What a night.

Tim Easton (and The Replacements)

This guy changed the way I think about the guitar.

Hey! Let’s get vodka and french fries and play some music!!!

why??

baaaaaah living in the middle of nowhere.

(I’m starting to go a bit wiggy from stress and lack of sleep. ha)

This is it

Any comments/advice/warnings??

It plays beautifully and just felt right.