Pitchfork: Ryan Adams Announces Midwest Tour

Last time we checked in with Ryan Adams (if you don't count the somewhat perplexing but good-natured interview) he was at home in New York City, working the pain out of a badly broken left wrist from a fall at Liverpool's Royal Court, and to our dismay, developing his own label, Pax American (no relation, we assume, to family-friendly PAX TV).

Then, earlier this month, Adams abandoned the usual design of his official web page (as well as its content) and replaced it with the image of a jukebox, on which you could play demos from the Ryan Adams vault. All the tracks were new except "The Rescue Blues", which appeared on 2001's Gold, and "Come Pick Me Up", from Adams' debut Heartbreaker (aka that one good Ryan Adams album). The remaining tracks were once available on a rare bootleg known as Exile on Franklin Street.

However, Adams' site has now been even further stripped, with the demos removed and the only content a list of upcoming tour dates-- credited to Ryan Adams & The Cardinals. There has been some speculation that the temporarily posted demos will comprise the first release on Pax American, but there's no word so far. Just in case it does turn out to be true (and if not, then just for your file-sharing pleasure), here are those tracks, in no particular order:

California
Goodbye Honey
Lash Out
Rescue Blues
Don't Ask For The Water
Suspicion
One By One
Come Pick Me Up
All My Fault
Secret Powers
Waves Crashing
Listen To The Radio
The Last Dance

Adams is also getting ready to take the stage again after nearly a year or reclusiveness (and broken-handedness). However, he did make a surprise live appearance during the encore of a Gillian Welch concert where he, Welch, and David Rawlings performed the track, "To Be Young (Is to Be Sad, is to Be High)", from Adams' album Heartbreaker, and then proceeded into a cover of the Neil Young classic "Helpless". Now, Adams has planned a brief U.S. tour to work out all that accumulated angst from the past 11 months. Originally only scheduled for two dates, the tour was recently expanded to include four more shows, taking Adams along a six-stop cruise through America's heartland. The dates:

11-12 Chicago, IL - Riviera Theatre
11-15 Minneapolis, MN - State Theatre
11-16 Omaha, NB - Sokol Auditorium
11-18 St Louis, MN - Pageant Theatre
11-19 Cincinnati, OH - Bogart's
11-20 Nashville, TN - Ryman Auditorium