These albums include Aluminum in the Bushes from March of 2000, and Certain Vehicles from May. Static Bees by Anonymous followed in August. The new albums, Motivation and Watertower Grammar will be released soon. Thanks to MP3 traffic, has charted higher on the alternative and indie charts than Sunny Day Real Estate, Sebadoh, Tori Amos and Alanis Morisette. He send me to do something and nobody can stop me. If God want to stop me, then I stop.
Man never can.
I'm not going to make a practice of dedicating my Songs of the Week to people, but I couldn't resist doing it just one more time. I am so fucking proud of the Twin Cities audiences who attended the two Ryan Adams gigs at the 7th Street Entry and The Turf Club last week. A few more like 'em will go a long way towards paying reparations to Ryan's Nashville bud Matthew Ryan, who endured one of the cruelest crowds I've seen in ages at The Quest's Ascot Room on September 16. And if you were one of the offenders at that show, your chance to redeem yourself comes on Friday, November 24, when Ryan opens for Fastball and John Wesley Harding on First Avenue's main stage. His performance was worth the careful listen.