Ryan for Glasto

Apparently, Ryan Adams has confirmed a short UK tour to coincide with his appearance at Glastonbury in June. As NME.COM revealed, the singer-songwriter will play at this year’s Glastonbury Festival in support of his forthcoming double album Cold Roses, out on May 2.

I went through quite a big Ryan phase when he first went solo; inspired by one of the best records ever made, Strangers Almanac by his former band, Whiskeytown. I just realised that I haven't listened to one of his records for quite some time, so I wonder if I've gone off him. Was it his self-indulgence, or mine?

Still, I think he has been pretty influential. Kathleen Edwards, from Paste magazine (February/March 2005 issue):

"What changed everything for me about Whiskeytown was the songs and that the songs were just so full of imagery without being these run-on songs - there was a start and a finish. And there wasn't all this fluff in there to get to one line." ((...)) Her Whiskeytown epiphany led to the cycle of songs that would become Failer.

I'll be at Glastonbury again this year, and I'll certainly catch his set.