Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - What Sin (Henry Rollins)

A MUCH better quality version than the one posted before.

Download - Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - What Sin (Henry Rollins)

Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - 2008-09-25

Finally! A soundboard show from this tour. Enjoy the new songs!

Disc One

01. Intro
02. Cobwebs
03. Wonderwall
04. Magick
05. Cold Roses
06. Sink Ships
07. Off Broadway
08. Everybody Knows
09. Peaceful Valley
10. Fix It
11. Natural Ghost
12. Crossed Out Name
13. Bartering Lines
14. Goodnight Rose

Disc Two

01. Let It Ride
02. Games
03. Come Pick Me Up
04. Like Yesterday
05. When The Stars Go Blue
06. Why Do They Leave?
07. The Sun Also Sets
08. Mockingbird
09. Magnolia Mountain
10. Shakedown on 9th Street
11. Easy Plateau
12. Dear John

Download - Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - 2008-09-25

Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - Fix It Radio Version

Here it is ripped from satellite radio. Thanks to Todd F. Check out his blog 23/7.

Download - Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - Fix It Full version

Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - 2007-9-14

I love this show. How Do You Keep Love Alive, Mockingbird and I Taught Myself How To Grow Old (featured below) are all highlights.

Download - Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - 2007-9-14

The Perfect Song

The Perfect Song is a new segment that will be featured on The Steam Engine. The songs will be that I think are, well, perfect! It started with Sonic Youth's The Diamond Sea and it continues today with Ryan Adams I Taught Myself How To Grow Old from Easy Tiger. I have 3 versions to share today, all with their own unique signature.

Poor little rose, beaten by the rain
In the wind in the gale, thunder and the hail
Sometimes I feel like I'm going insane
Without the numbness or the pain so intense to feel
Especially now it added up through the years
And I, I taught myself how to grow
Without any love and there was poison in the rain
I taught myself how to grow
Now I'm crooked on the outside, and the inside's broke

Most of the time I got nothing to say
When I do it's nothing and nobody's there to listen anyway
I know I'm probably better off this way
I just listen to the voices on the TV 'til I'm tired
My eyes grow heavy and I fade away

'Cause I, I taught myself how to grow
Without any love and there was poison in the rain
I taught myself how to grow
'Til I was crooked on the outside
I taught myself how to grow
Without any love and there was poison in the rain
I taught myself how to grow
'Til I was crooked on the outside, inside's caved
Crooked on the outside, inside's caved
Crooked on the outside, inside's caved
I taught myself how to grow old

The Studio Version

This version practically begs for a small, dark stage in a shit bar in the middle of nowhere. The harmonica picks up and trudges through the start until Adams lips open with "Poor little rose, beaten by the rain." I get a vivid image burned in my skull from that line. This song is a portrait of a man truly alone.

Easy Tiger Live at Avatar Studios Version

I love the contrast of the harmonica with the cold desolate sounding electric guitar. When he sings this song, in all versions, he sounds like a timid little boy confused about, well, just about everything. At the end of the tune their is a fantastic riff played over and over again and it brings the power of a thousand waves to an already moving song.

The Live Version - (2007/09/14)

This copy has no harmonica, just a beautiful slide and a great guitar solo. This entire show is one of my favorites but this song, brought on early (3rd song) has an immensely effective guitar solo by Ryan Adams. He starts his solo right after the slide takes a well deserved dive to a bottomless pit of despair. His guitar is the perfect accent to this song, you can hear him push his tremelo down a couple of times adding a certain off-the-cuff depth that is not found on any other version.

Ryan Adams - Gimmee Sunshine

This song originally came from the Q Division Sessions and was supposedly recorded for the long sought after Elizabeth Town Sessions. This version is on the bands MySpace and sounds like a studio take very different from the Q version. I do not know if this was widely available before now or not but it is new to me, either way its great. Enjoy!

Info on the song

Download - Ryan Adams - Gimmee Sunshine

My Morning Jacket - Rockpalast Audio

This is the audio. The info file says it is ripped from the DVD but it sounds a little fuzzy to me. Either way, thanks tragicallyphish from the MMJ forums.

Download - My Morning Jacket - Rockpalast Audio

Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - Fix It

1:30 second clip of Fix It from their next album: Cardinology

Download - Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - Fix It

My Morning Jacket - Rockpalast DVD

Here is the torrent file associated with the DVD. This should work for everyone. If you do not use torrents go to www.utorrent.com, download and install their software and then drag and drop the file into Utorrent. Email me if you need help.

Download - MMJ Rockpalast DVD Torrent

This is a treat for all. I watched this DVD 3 times this past weekend and it is amazingly shot and very professionally done. It is cool to see them in such an intimate venue. Some info:

Rockpalast
Luxor, Köln, Germany
July 2, 2008

01. Intro
--- Evil Urges
02. Off The Record
--- Gideon
03. I'm Amazed
04. The Way That He Sings
--- Sec Walkin *
--- Thank You Too!
05. Lay Low
06. Anytime
07. Remnants
08. Heartbreakin Man
--- Golden
--- Smokin From Shootin *
09. Touch Me I'm Going To Scream Pt. 2
10. Look At You
11. Wordless Chorus
12. Highly Suspicious
13. Phone Went West
14. Dondante
15. Run Thru <- layer break 16. One Big Holiday 17. Interview *As menu background music: FM, SXSW Music Festival, Austin, TX, USA, 2008-03-13 Bonus: FIB Benicassim Festival Castellon, Spain July 19, 2008 1. Evil Urges 2. Off The Record I had some problems with the Off The Record from Spain, it freezes.

How to copy these files to a DVD:

I used DVD Shrink, it is free and it compresses the whole movie, meaning it will fit on 1 DVD instead of 2. The quality is still great even after the slight compression, it was around 87% compressed.

1) Download all the files into a folder
2) Unzip the "BUP files" file into said folder
3) Delete BUP files.zip file
4) Drag and drop all the files into the left pane in DVD Shrink (I got an "Invalid File Name" error a bunch of times but it did not effect the DVD)
5) Click "Backup!" near the top
6) Rage

Files:

http://www.mediafire.com/file/bwfonxemhzy/BUP Files.zip
http://www.mediafire.com/file/hnnzzoh0jbn/VIDEO_TS.IFO
http://www.mediafire.com/file/1mzmyajzmzn/VIDEO_TS.VOB
http://www.mediafire.com/file/2zmj5meznxy/VTS_01_0.IFO
http://www.mediafire.com/file/jjinnjjjnzq/VTS_01_0.VOB
http://www.mediafire.com/file/hjrlomqlmum/VTS_01_1.VOB
http://www.mediafire.com/file/wo33jzmlm5e/VTS_01_2.VOB
http://www.mediafire.com/file/zmzqltyztni/VTS_01_3.VOB
http://www.mediafire.com/file/zxzmj1j2hig/VTS_01_4.VOB
http://www.mediafire.com/file/zj0kj2doitd/VTS_01_5.VOB
http://www.mediafire.com/file/zjqk4mdmjmw/VTS_02_0.IFO
http://www.mediafire.com/file/wngj2ydhmw4/VTS_02_0.VOB
http://www.mediafire.com/file/1225yimytld/VTS_02_1.VOB

IT IS COMMON FOR SOME OF THESE LINKS NOT TO WORK. REFRESH THE PAGE AND IT WILL WORK EVENTUALLY.

Thank you Eric S. for turning me on to this.

Wilco - XRT 4th of July Free Concert 2001 - Jay Bennett's Last Show

Jay Bennett was a major part in the creation of Wilco's "breakthrough" album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. You can see Bennett's relationship with Tweedy and the gang (old gang that is, except for a few members still with them) deteriorate right before your eyes on the Wilco doc I Am Trying To Break Your Heart. He seems like a real asshole in that film.

01. I Am Trying to Break Your Heart
02. War on War
03. A Shot in the Arm
04. She's a Jar
05. I'm Always in Love
06. Airline to Heaven
07. Feed of Man
08. Remember the Mountain Bed
09. California Stars
10. Kamera
11. Ashes of American Flags
12. Red-Eyed and Blue
13. I Got You (At the End of the Century)
Encore:
14. I'm the Man Who Loves You
15. Sunken Treasure
16. Outta Mind (Outta Site)

Wilco - XRT 4th of July Free Concert 2001 - Jay Bennett's Last Show