Ryan Adams

What they played

1. The Rescue Blues
2. To Be Young (Is to Be Sad, Is to Be High)
3. Firecracker
4. Wharf Rat Grateful Dead cover Transitions into next song
5. Answering Bell Transitions into next song
6. Wharf Rat Grateful Dead cover Transitions into next song
7. Somehow, Someday
8. Harder Now That It's Over
9. Touch, Feel & Lose
10. La Cienega Just Smiled
11. Tina Toledo's Street Walkin' Blues
12. Nervous Breakdown Black Flag cover
13. Shakedown on 9th Street
14. Psalms
15. Nobody Girl
16. Brown Sugar The Rolling Stones cover
17. I Don't Wanna Work
18. Vampire

18 songs, from setlist.fm. Contributed by whoever was standing there taking notes.

The moment

By March 2002 Ryan Adams was operating at a pace nobody could referee — Gold was up for Grammys, he'd already recorded several albums' worth of follow-up material that Lost Highway didn't know what to do with (Demolition, the salvage compilation, came that fall), and every show ran on the tension between the best songwriting of his generation and the chaos it traveled in. The Avalon got the full 2002 experience. John's ledger runs five Ryan Adams entries deep, and this is the one from the eye of the prolific storm.