Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - Cobwebs on Letterman

[hugosalarm]

Ryan Adams and the Cardinals, the very summit of country-rock. Neither "Nashville Skyline" Dylan, "Sweetheart of the Rodeo" Byrds, nor anyone else holds a candle to these guys.

[pastyhead80]

Ryan Adams can write the songs that I am thinking in my head and feeling in my heart without ever meeting him in person

[axegas76]

daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa­aaaaaaaaamn



[deezswallow]

AWEFUCKINGSOME

[seifukusha]

wow, thats a great version..wall of sound!

[junkmale2000]

It's four Fender Princeton's inside a cabinet made to look like a Fender Princetone!

[cmchris88]

Conor Oberst doesn't deserve to be in the same sentence as Ryan Adams

[braven828]

YESSS!

[dylan2323]

ryan adams puts rivers cuomo to shame in my opinion

[advertretro]

holy shit, Ryan looks a lot like Rivers Cuomo

[rolsson138]

This may have been his last letterman appearance ever.

[wrongemboyo79]

RIP Chris (bass player)

[dph5150]

I was there for this performance, right in the front row! You couldn't imagine how huge the sound was...absolutely blew my mind!

[shelley9000]

@dph5150-how wonderful-good for you!!!! Sooo jealous....

[patblackwell1]

Everything he does is damn good. There are real music gems on all his albums. Saw him live once however and he was very poor. Only for he is such a genius I wouldnt have forgiven him

[pugmonkey13]

i love cardinology...it's way better than easy tiger.

[seifukusha]

wow, that was genius! best version ive ever heard!

[Nd179]

Ryan should put out some live discs. Cardinology was a huge disappointment to me, but every clip I see of him doing those songs live are sooooo much better than the album!

[srhs420]

If only Ryan played/performed like he did on every Letterman performance...

[barrytron3030]

love the love ryan adams gets from letterman.

[artiesux]

One of my favorite songs from Ryan!

[kirk7524875248]

Very nice drum sound!

[1bmarsh]

he is the musical genius this generation has lacked

[jcscorpio73]

@1bmarsh I agree 100%. And goes to show how much of the masses don't know jack about real music...

[hiddeninromance]

@1bmarsh

+

Conor Oberst and M. Ward in my opinion, Conor especially I mean he's really just finding his sound now

[TheAmorican]

@1bmarsh my generation was blinded by bullshit and the destorted fat rap music that is just im a pimp this i have chains and rims and a nice that....... people like ryan fell in the cracks of that shit ... luckily i got underground sooner than most when i was high school so i got saved hahaah and ryan adams was one of those musical saviors

[TheElectromagnet]

@1bmarsh if he's here then how did the generation lack him?

[rp1guy]

This guy just tugs on my emotional heart strings like no other..Just an incredible genius

[mtbpr]

just love the amp sound...

[dylanrules123]

SO GOOD! ORGASMIC!

[54spiritedwill54]

Awesome !

[PigLover69]

Lol your funny david letterman! NOT

[grahamjarman]

there IS no off position on the genius switch-love it man, you rock, even thouh you may have quit the cardinals, fuck it

[ericwolff6]

regarding the genius switch, I beg to differ. see phil specter, francis crick and many others. but ryan's switch continues to be in the on position. and his t-shirts are awesome too.

[AZNsplatform]

so true, his shirts are always the best ...

[prestonposthuma]

francis crick's genius was LSD. he discovered the double helix on a day he had taken LSD.

[ohio1968javelin]

GREAT GREAT GREAT RYAN IS THE BEST!!

[bxbutler1]

Neal Casal has such a pure voice. These guys together , it doesn't get much better. Ryan's amp is a little silly . . . but those shoes rule. They was made for peddlin'.

[grahamjarman]

that amp rules. i want one. put it in my shed...maybe

[WGMSMan]

It's just four Princeton's in one big, fake Princeton.

[mrclean616]

I totally agree! Jon's kicks are sweeeeet!

[legerebabe]

Jon Graboff's shoes are badass.

[FatPeopleSuckMe]

CAN SOMEONE PLEASE TALK TO ME

lets chat vi

[9thstreetbrandt]

ryan is amazing!!!

[agustinkaoru]

Is Mr. Letterman talking to us?

[ZBritt92]

I would reckon so

[MarijuanaGood4U]

song only good live and in person

[EddieAR]

This song is just simply brilliant.

[Zendrix3]

Ryan Adams + Cardinals = beauty.

[djrodz69]

cardinology is great and so is ryan live!cardinals fuckin rule!!!

[jjnoelgallagher]

the best genius of the 00s

[Zendrix3]

True, but he was a genius in the late 90's with Whiskeytown as well.

[TrippleT7]

sooo much better than "fix it"

[noelsfa]

just great, i think that it's many people with a lot of cliches in their head, no comparations with other albums, simply the cards, great

[Shrubbs]

Wasn't he fat? I remember him being tubby

[driftingtheworld]

that was 100 pounds of drugs ago it's the wana be rock star thing to do, then you write about it for the money to do more drugs. It's the seedy life that brings the characters in these rock stars lives to life into thier music. Maybe used to eat fast food and now he's a vegan juicefasting monk, but if you by nerdy glasses and try to sound like the cure, or rip off bob dylan you are called a genius who knows. If he was 60 pounds heavier would't he be the lead singer of fall out boy anyways?

[Frankiein215]

Hey. Ryan was larger, but never fat!

[littletriptoheaven]

really am not a fan of the new album .. yuck

[darvelgringo]

Stick with the new album, it gets better every time you play it. The new songs were actually the best ones at last night's London gig - which I didn't expect at all. The album's also a lot better when you play it on decent speakers and crank it up...

[pamthereceptionist]

I totally agree. I didn't like it that much at first, but then I thought, "Wow for not liking it, I sure listen to it a lot". It's a definite grower - it's great.

[TrippleT7]

Skip tracks 1-4. "Cobwebs" through "Like Yesterday" really are great songs after you get used to them.

[ClassicRocker30]

Me I didn't its great. But Heartbreaker is one of the best of all time to me so.

[ZBritt92]

This is actually the first time a new album has come out since I've been a fan, and it's hard to adjust from old to new when you are hardly aquainted with Easy Tiger and such to begin with.

[ClassicRocker30]

well easy tiger was only a year ago. I've been listening for at least four years.But heartbreaker got me started so thats nice.

[ZBritt92]

It was a joke you idiot.

[coldbev07]

At least Jeff Tweedy could go sober and still entertain us. Ryan will be back...it just seems like some chick told him to be "good" for a while. YO RYAN - THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE REALLY F'N FUN! The Andy Kaufman of Rock-n-Roll has turned into Ned Flanders. Rock on Ned.

[coldbev07]

Yawn

[ZBritt92]

Like, what's your problem? like you just have to like have to come after me. Fuck you, like,  fuck you you asshole. You obviously have a problem with me. You don't belong anymore, and your probably old and should just like retire.

[bickerjvc38]

sometimes i wish i were deaf then i wouldnt hear the words u say under ur breath

[bickerjvc38]

i am pissed thanx

[ZBritt92]

Haha. what is that supposed to mean?

[mlphawaii]

geez Ryan and the Cardinals...will you EVER fail me, i think not..you never cease to amaze me ..!

[bickerjvc38]

assholes you can only write a album like heartbreaker once ryan has more balls than dylan ryan has more heart than all the bullshit in the charts so fuck off wanna be fans >>>>>>>>>>>>>

[ibanez6789345]

bloody spot on. Amen to that

[ClassicRocker30]

you know things are going wrong when your getting pissed at the people who love the same artist as you.

[ClassicRocker30]

true word he wont match heartbreaker again, but he can get close.

[ZBritt92]

no way. Heartbreaker and Whiskeytown were inspired by Dylan. This is Adams trying to venture into a more popular genre of music which he sucks at. I don't hate Ryan Adams, I just wish that he would go back.

[ibanez6789345]

times have changed.

[edvinkihlstedt]

hm, have I heard this before.. i get this feeling that a lot of people said this to dylan as well, but I don´t know...

Moron!

[ClassicRocker30]

I do love his old stuff heartbreaker is one of the best albums of all time. This stuff is really good though.

[ZBritt92]

This music really has to grow on me before it's meaningful. I can't believe that I said that just a day ago. And I'm not even just trying to be a bitch for everyone else. Listening to exactly the same song 24 hours later is entirely different.

[blamb1]

how is this a popular genre of music?

[ZBritt92]

It's not, I was wrong, end of story. It should be though. . .

[gobignumber7]

I agree steven180ya, except he's a way better singer than Dylan. What a voice.

[steven180ya]

Yea cos his first band Whiskey town were good but hes progressed into a,dare i say it a modern day Dylan.What a back catologue to have.

[ElimRem]

look at that big ass amp!

[ut4ever44]

That's not really an amp, It's just a big box that's covering up his other amps. I believe there are 4 amps stacked up in there.

[ElimRem]

what does he mean with cobwebs? im dutch so cobwebs are to me spider-webs

[calaisk9]

cobwebs mean the same to us but it is obviously a metaphor for something just not sure what!

[brentmcd]

yeah, but cobwebs are not just spiderwebs -- they are old, discarded ones which are dirty and cluttering.  so, i think perhaps ryan is making an analogy to worthless, unrequited love. brilliant song. great, moody lyrics

[west7689]

Neal Casal=brilliant.

[steven180ya]

This guy is just getting better and better.

Still amazing after all this time,my god how does he do it.

[geridg]

I'm 40, and when he first started getting noticed I couldn't take him to seriously just cause he was so damn young. But he's maturing and really is the real deal. He has some great tunes!

[eimzy88]

i cant wait for saturday when ryan and the cardinals come to ireland! love u guys

[Millscrew]

Me to, gonna be BRILL , 3rd time seeing him.

[wrongemboyo79]

is that an overly large guitar amp behind Ryan?

[gdrawlinson]

yup yup it's huge, i love it!

[fricco1994]

@wrongemboyo79 it istn a real amp

[fricco1994]

@wrongemboyo79 it´s not a real amp

[barnacles1138]

@wrongemboyo79

It's actually a big case that fits four smaller amps. Look at the knobs on it. They're just pictures. Franz Ferdinand uses it too.

[CARINLOVESYOU]

These guys kicked so much ass on Letterman. I feel like I'm a proud big sister or something funny like that. Love them!

[newbatman44]

i saw them a few weeks ago, and they opened with this song with the most incredible, beautiful lights about them..

ill never forget it.

[illuminol]

not too sure about the "confuse my love for the cobwebs" line, or about the falsetto in the second chorus. apart from that its a great great song.

[houndogray]

I kind of take it to mean will you confuse love with something worthless or which seems to have no meaning, that can be easily discarded. Personal opinion.

[ClassicRocker30]

thats how I took it too, like will you confuse my love for you, for something pointless.

[TrippleT7]

Did Jon Graboff leave the Cardinals? I thought he did.

[CARINLOVESYOU]

nope! in fact just got a new instrument he'll be using to delight crowds in the UK.

[macfae]

wish this had been the one actually on the show.

I like Fix It but I much prefer this one.

Although, Ryan so rarely disappoints anytime.

Glad he seems to be a favorite of Dave's.

[tweetermkyman]

"Turn off your computer and go to bed" I did just that last night and here I am again. Amazing performance. That boy can sing.

[SvgGrdnBeauty]

This is my favourite track. Its so fab and Neal is so hot here! lol

[xxelliexx]

swoon

[ryanadamscovers]

AMAZING :)

[IAmLucasJC]

One of my favourite tracks of Cardinology. Really well performed.

I hope they tour back to NZ again, I'd love to hear some of these tracks live.

[frank0vs]

Fucking Awesome !