Ryan Adams, Songwriting Machine

Posted by Brett Hooton Dec 9, 2006

We don’t know what it is, but all of our favorite artists have been prancing around the internet this last week. Maybe it’s because Folk101 has stepped up our blogging to hyper-speed levels.

Well, another of the songwriters we swoon over, Ryan Adams, has been a busy boy lately. If you didn’t think so before, now it’s evident that he is going for some kind of Guinness Record. In 2005, he became infamous for putting out three, count’em, three albums.

Now, he is taking seemingly every riff he comes up with and putting them on his website. A total of eleven (!) albums are now available of Ryan and friends screwing around in the studio and letting us have a listen. You can hear it all from Ryan and his alter-egos DJ Reggie and The Shit on his website. Which, at the moment, seems to be down.

However, we encourage to check back. It’s a regular hootenanny (no relation) that will brighten your day. Until then, you can read up on Ryan’s other projects.

He will be appearing on a new America album. You know, America, the band that sounds like Neil Young and which has been riding “A Horse With No Name” since the 1970s. Also, you can hear his work behind the mixer as he played executive producer on Willie Nelson’s latest album, Songbird.

For the Ryan-live experience, there is always YouTube which covered his recent three-night stand at NYC’s Town Hall. The clip of Ryan and Norah Jones singing “Oh John” is amazing.

Yes, Ryan Adams is definitely the man. If only he wasn’t so grumpy all the time.

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