re: Ryan Adams, Jason Isbell, Amanda Shires, Jacksonville Skyline.

Nice!

My favorite Ryan performance...

Several years back now at Cain's in Tulsa. Drove over from Northwest Arkansas with a car load of friends. We got in, found some seats right up front, and I headed off for the beer stand. I got about halfway there and I heard a voice come over the mic and say that he had been given permission to open up for The Cardinals that night if nobody minded. I thought "I fricking know that voice" and I whirled around and it was Ryan. Hauled arse back to my seat. He did an solo acoustic opening set of unreleased solo material that he was just starting to play around with. A lot of it ended up on Cardinology. One of them, though, was a tune called Broken Arrow, and I thought it was the greatest thing I'd ever heard. Of course, it remains unreleased, and as far as I know that's the only time he ever performed it.

Anyway, after that I continued my trek to the beer stand and grabbed a Heineken keg can for each hand before the whole band came out.