Ryan Adams - Come Pick Me Up

Ryan Adams singing Come Pick Me Up with Neil Finn and Janis Ian on BBC 4's Songwriters' Circle on October 21st 2011.

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Music

Tags:

• Come
• Pick
• Me
• Up
• Ryan
• Adams
• Neil
• Finn
• Janis
• Ian
• Songwriters'
• Circle
• Acoustic

[paul150365]

Although unknown to me Ryan Adams shot to God like status with this one song, look at the admiring face's of his fellow musicians, Niel Finn's expression @ 1:35 as he is close to bursting into tears. Well done BBC what a thoroughly enjoyable bit of television.

[Hughie77]

Unreal, lucky enough to see Neil Finn and Ryan Adams but to see them together,  This is what the BBC was made for

[areamidway]

@PRYCEYPOOS69 quite far off the mark with your biased, jealous assumptions. i'm neither american nor single, nearly 20 yrs older than adams & well aware of neil & tim finns work. (feel free to insert more meaningless character assaults in any new entries to further nullify your own character credibility) My opinion is as valid as anyones though my comments do not mention any intent to squelch or censor others. You might do better by behaving as something other than a force feeding spoilt brat.

[PRYCEYPOOS69]

Your reply "Areamidway" shows me 2 things, you haven't read the press release as to what happened during the session and that you are perhaps single and have nothing better to do judging by your lengthy and tedious replies. I get it that you worship Ryan Adams, are of equal age and have somehow managed to miss the career of Neil Finn. Either way I don't give a shit and perhaps you should let people have their own views rather than force feed us brits another over the top spoilt amercian brat.

[areamidway]

@PRYCEYPOOS69 They definately showed us they are blown away by his presence. Early on Neil and Janis seem to have been working hard to demonstrate that they are on the same planet as Ryan Adams but by doing this they only show us how much they are in awe of him. It's obvious they both so very much wish they could take, buy, steal, cajole or swindle what Ryan Adams has got.

[areamidway]

Ok, the way I see it, Ryan Adams songwriting here is genius because he has the ability to let go of his control over it and, with an almost out of body experience, observe how to analyze, add or edit all the pieces until it is the most perfect of imperfections. In other words, he has achieved true mastery in his artistic medium and has the ability to masterfully reveal his enlightenment to us again and again and again.

[areamidway]

I'm not talking about who sells the most records or gets the most publicity here. I'm talking about a true Artistic master as in Da Vinci or Picasso.

[areamidway]

In that regard, it's as if his craft was not his own choosing. He does it because it’s what he does. Like Da Vinci and Picasso, he works constantly, experimenting with combinations of all the thoughts, dreams, senses and emotions. No one on that stage speaks the same language he does so it would take an enormous amount of time to explain and rehearse and in the end they still would have had no idea what he was trying to convey.

[areamidway]

Neil Finn is a terrific craftsman, well received and gifted but he has not achieved artistic mastery as a songwriter. Technical mastery, yeah sure. Artistic mastery, not yet. I believe he is travelling in the general vicinity he just hasn’t arrived at the destination yet and if he does he may not know how he got there or how to get back once the moment is over.

[areamidway]

To get there and be able to return he will have to change his mind which is very difficult when one is motivated to be right and also desires the enjoyment of being right. By the way, I think Ryan Adams gave us a cryptic map on how to get there when he wrote “Let it Ride”.

[areamidway]

Janis Ian may have stumbled into some artistic proficiency some years ago but her “popular” success, in my opinion, has actually prevented her artistic growth since. In other words, she stopped searching for anything artistic in the 70’s once her song was played on the radio and a comfortable life was achieved.

[PRYCEYPOOS69]

still a very powerful ballad none the less...............