Back in 2003, Ryan Adams was playing Nashville’s fabled Ryman Auditorium, and one fan wouldn’t stop requesting that he cover Bryan Adams’ cheese-rock hit “Summer Of ’69.” Ryan famously kicked the fan out, cussing him out and throwing him a refund in the process. Hopefully, that fan was ...

Ryan Adams and Bryan Adams both share a birthday (which is today — happy birthday, guys!), and they made their admiration for each other known in a series of tweets today. The once contentious Ryan/Bryan connection goes way back, culminating in Ryan covering Bryan’s “Run To You” in concert last month. The ...

Ryan has been critical of Bryan in the past

Ryan Adams covered Bryan Adams to close his show in Santa Barbara last night. Here’s why everyone’s so excited about it. In 2002, at the Nashville stop on his Demolition tour, Ryan Adams threw a fan out of his show for requesting Bryan Adams’ hit “Summer Of ’69.” He had the house lights...

One of the things I love so much about Ryan Adams’ new self-titled LP is the way in which he incorporates all these atavistic, objectively uncool ’80s sounds and wrings from them this absolutely devastating emotional power. Scott rightly compared the record to Bryan Adams; Chris Ryan at Grantland — also rightly &...