RYAN ADAMS
Mercury Lounge
New York City, NY
January 5, 2000

Set list incomplete. Only a partial tape of this show is in circulation.

1. Dancing w the women
2. Intro to Poison& Pain
3. Poison and the Pain
4. Intro to String& Wire
5. The String and the Wire
6. Intro to Statuettes w/ Wounds
7. Statuettes w/ Wounds
8. 16 Days
9. Chatter W/ Crowd
10. Intro to Mining Town
11. Mining Town
12. Intro to Houses on the hill
13. Houses on the hill
14. Thanks & Good Bye!

From www.answeringbell.com :

Two and a half years since the release of Whiskeytown's sadly beautiful
*Stranger's Almanac*, leader Ryan Adams quietly surfaced - like that mystic
groundhog in Punxsutawney - to perform newly-penned solo material on a
midwinter night at New York City's eminent rock womb, the Mercury Lounge.
That evening, Adams had confirmed plans to watch *Fargo* and not smoke
cigarettes, but because he lives a bass pick's throw from the club, he made
perfect sense as a last-minute fill-in for Philadelphia band Marah, who had
canceled. Word traveled though town at the speed of a D Train, and what
harvested was a salivating crowd of Whiskeytown fans feeling luckier than
sevens.

Stage lights were sprayed across the black ceiling, their dimmed tentacles
meeting in a collective yellow mass upon a single wooden chair. Near there,
behind a curtain of hair, Adams stood with a notebook and an acoustic
guitar, and politely asked if we buzzing New York City rock patrons would
mind if he sound-checked real quick. [Okay, but hurry.] The joke was on us,
though; he was twisting pegs around already.

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