Prisoner Promo Tour
The Prisoner Promo tour started a full 2 1/2 months before the album release. Ryan went all the way to Japan for a single show and to Australia for just 2 shows. Both were full-band shows and the first appearance of his new band: the sometimes dubbed The Unknown Band.
After the initial shows things went more quiet with some specials being recorded in December. In January the tour picked up speed with Ryan visiting Europe, focusing strongly on the UK. Shows included unannounced in-store appearances, shows scheduled within hours, radio appearances, shows for music industry professionals by invite-only and finally full-band shows again in the US.
The tour has a lot of hidden gems. 10 Songs were played live for the first time during this tour and a couple of unique covers were played: Streets of Philadelphia and Karma Police. Two unreleased songs were played: Still A Cage and Was I Wrong? The amount of improvised songs was quite high as well, and the run of in-store gigs got a lot of attention as well, making for some pretty unique settings.
Contents 27 shows
Ryan Adams 04/12/2016 Factory Theatre Sydney Australia Ryan Adams 06/12/2016 Enmore Theatre Sydney Australia Ryan Adams 09/12/2016 Studio Coast Tokyo Japan Ryan Adams 21/01/2017 The Pasadena Civic Los Angeles, California USA Ryan Adams 24/01/2017 BBC 6 Studios London England Ryan Adams 26/01/2017 Rough Trade East London England Ryan Adams 27/01/2017 The Soup Kitchen Manchester England Ryan Adams 27/01/2017 Sirius Radio, The Spectrum, #28 Los Angeles USA Ryan Adams 27/01/2017 BBC Radio 6 Manchester England Ryan Adams 28/01/2017 BBC Radio 2 London England Ryan Adams 28/01/2017 BBC Breakfast Show London England Ryan Adams 29/01/2017 Treadwells London England Ryan Adams 30/01/2017 Virgin Radio UK London England Ryan Adams 30/01/2017 Janice Forsyth Show, Radio BBC Scotland Edinburgh Scotland Ryan Adams 30/01/2017 Krøsset Oslo Norway Ryan Adams 31/01/2017 NRK P13 Radio Oslo Norway Ryan Adams And The Rain 16/02/2017 Apollo Theater New York, New York USA Ryan Adams And The Rain 17/02/2017 The Tonight Show New York, New York USA Ryan Adams 18/02/2017 Rough Trade NYC New York, New York USA Ryan Adams & Band 18/02/2017 Rough Trade NYC New York, New York USA Ryan Adams 20/02/2017 Fingerprints Los Angeles, California USA Ryan Adams 20/02/2017 WFUV Live New York, New York USA Ryan Adams 21/02/2017 KCRW - Morning Becomes Eclectic Santa Monica, California USA Ryan Adams 21/02/2017 Jonesy's Jukebox on 95.5 KLOS Los Angeles, California USA Ryan Adams 22/02/2017 Amoeba Music Hollywood, California USA Ryan Adams 23/02/2017 The Late Late Show with James Corden Los Angeles, California USA Ryan Adams 03/03/2017 World Café Live Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA
Number of countries in the Prisoner Promo Tour: 6
Prisoner album coverage on the Prisoner Promo Tour
Songs played on the Prisoner Promo Tour
Song Plays Release Writer(s) 1 Do You Still Love Me? 20 Prisoner (2017) Ryan Adams and Daniel Clarke 2 To Be Without You 15 Prisoner (2017) Ryan Adams 3 Prisoner 14 Prisoner (2017) Ryan Adams and Mike Viola 4 Haunted House 14 Prisoner (2017) Ryan Adams 5 Doomsday 13 Prisoner (2017) Ryan Adams 6 Breakdown 12 Prisoner (2017) Ryan Adams 7 Outbound Train 11 Prisoner (2017) Ryan Adams 8 Anything I Say To You Now 9 Prisoner (2017) Ryan Adams 9 We Disappear 8 Prisoner (2017) Ryan Adams 10 Tightrope 7 Prisoner (2017) Ryan Adams 11 Peaceful Valley 7 Jacksonville City Nights (2005) Ryan Adams, J.P. Bowersock, Brad Pemberton, Catherine Popper, Jon Graboff 12 Magnolia Mountain 6 Cold Roses (2005) Ryan Adams, J.P. Bowersock, Cindy Cashdollar, Brad Pemberton, Catherine Popper 13 Shakedown On 9th Street 6 Heartbreaker (2000) Ryan Adams 14 Kim 5 Ryan Adams (2014) Ryan Adams 15 Cold Roses 5 Cold Roses (2005) Ryan Adams, J.P. Bowersock, Cindy Cashdollar, Brad Pemberton, Catherine Popper 16 Everybody Knows 5 Easy Tiger (2007) Ryan Adams, Brad Pemberton, Neal Casal, Jon Graboff 17 Dirty Rain 4 Ashes & Fire (2011) Ryan Adams 18 Let It Ride 4 Cold Roses (2005) Ryan Adams, J.P. Bowersock, Cindy Cashdollar, Brad Pemberton, Catherine Popper 19 Fix It 4 Cardinology (2008) Ryan Adams 20 Broken Anyway 4 Prisoner (2017) Ryan Adams 21 Gimme Something Good 3 Ryan Adams (2014) Ryan Adams 22 When The Stars Go Blue 3 Gold (2001) Ryan Adams 23 I Love You But I Don't Know What To Say 3 Ashes & Fire (2011) Ryan Adams 24 Was I Wrong? 3 Chris (2022) 25 Still A Cage 2 Chris (2022) 26 Shiver And Shake 2 Prisoner (2017) Ryan Adams 27 Streets of Philadelphia 2 Bruce Springsteen cover Bruce Springsteen 28 Wonderwall 2 Oasis cover Noel Gallagher 29 Am I Safe 2 Ryan Adams (2014) Ryan Adams 30 Karma Police 1 Radiohead cover Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Ed O'Brien, Colin Greenwood and Phil Selway 31 Run To You 1 Bryan Adams cover Bryan Adams and Jim Vallance 32 Stay With Me 1 Ryan Adams (2014) Ryan Adams 33 When The Summer Ends 1 1984 (2014) Ryan Adams 34 Ashes & Fire 1 Ashes & Fire (2011) Ryan Adams 35 Come Pick Me Up 1 Heartbreaker (2000) Ryan Adams and Van Alston 36 16 Days 1 Stranger's Almanac (1997) Ryan Adams 37 I Just Might 1 Ryan Adams (2014) Ryan Adams 38 Rats In The Wall 1 Live At Rough Trade (2017) Ryan Adams
Improvised songs on the Prisoner Promo Tour: 6
Cover versions on the Prisoner Promo Tour
Live debuts on the Prisoner Promo Tour: 10
Song Date Venue Location Prisoner 2016-12-04 Factory Theatre Sydney, Australia Doomsday 2016-12-04 Factory Theatre Sydney, Australia Breakdown 2016-12-04 Factory Theatre Sydney, Australia Anything I Say To You Now 2016-12-04 Factory Theatre Sydney, Australia We Disappear 2016-12-04 Factory Theatre Sydney, Australia Broken Anyway 2017-01-26 Rough Trade East London, England Still A Cage 2017-01-26 Rough Trade East London, England Shiver And Shake 2017-01-29 Krøsset Oslo, Norway Streets of Philadelphia 2017-01-26 Rough Trade East London, England Karma Police 2017-01-28 BBC Radio 2 London, England
Tour debuts on the Prisoner Promo Tour in order of appearance
Factory Theatre, Sydney, Australia
2016-12-04 :Enmore Theatre, Sydney, Australia
2016-12-06 :Studio Coast, Tokyo, Japan
2016-12-09 :The Pasadena Civic, Los Angeles, California, USA
2017-01-21 :Rough Trade East, London, England
2017-01-26 :Sirius Radio, The Spectrum, #28, Los Angeles, USA
2017-01-27 :BBC Radio 2, London, England
2017-01-28 :Treadwells, London, England
2017-01-29 :Apollo Theater, New York, New York, USA
2017-02-16 :
Support acts on the Prisoner Promo Tour
Reviews of shows on the Prisoner Promo Tour
2016-12-04 Factory Theatre, Sydney, Australia
“These feelings are so raw, if you ate them, you’d get worms” – was a quip from Adams that summed up much of the lyrical atmosphere you’ll find on his new record. Following on from his Taylor Swift cover album 1989, Prisoner is Adam’s own breakup record, with songs about breakdowns (in a song called “Breakdown”) and death making themselves overtly present.The AU Review
2017-01-27 The Soup Kitchen, Manchester, England
Little did I know that when I shared one of Ryan Adams new songs ‘Doomsday’ onto some of my friends Facebook walls on Friday morning that I would be watching him play an impromptu gig to 150 people at Manchester Soup Kitchen the very same night!Louder Than War
2017-02-20 Fingerprints, Los Angeles, California, USA
When Fingerprints owner Rand Foster was asked before the show if he had any specific reason for having Adams at the record store, he responded with a titter, “We love Ryan… It’s taken 17 years, I always knew he’d make a great in-store performance.”Long Beach Post
Posters: 10
Photos from the Prisoner Promo Tour: 59
Videos from the Prisoner Promo Tour: 60
Unsorted videos (6)Am I Safe (2)Anything I Say To You Now (2)Breakdown (3)Cold Roses (1)Come Pick Me Up (2)Do You Still Love Me? (4)Doomsday (3)Everybody Knows (1)Gimme Something Good (1)Gosh, I Love Toast (1)Haunted House (3)I Love You, But I Don't Know What To Say (1)Let It Ride (1)Magnolia Mountain (1)More Pleasure (2)Outbound Train (1)Peaceful Valley (4)Prisoner (4)Rats In The Wall (1)Still A Cage (1)Streets of Philadelphia (2)The Greatest Cat In The World (1)To Be Without You (5)Was I Wrong? (2)We Disappear (1)When The Stars Go Blue (3)
Audio recordings on Internet Archive of shows on the Prisoner Promo Tour: 5
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Ryan Adams 06/12/2016 Enmore Theatre Sydney Australia Ryan Adams 24/01/2017 BBC 6 Studios London England Ryan Adams 18/02/2017 Rough Trade NYC New York, New York USA Ryan Adams 21/02/2017 KCRW - Morning Becomes Eclectic Santa Monica, California USA Ryan Adams 22/02/2017 Amoeba Music Hollywood, California USA
Interviews during the Prisoner Promo Tour: 17
2017-01-19The interview jumps right into the making of Prisoner. Apple Music Ryan Adams phoned in to Kyle Meredith’s show to talk about his new album Prisoner, as well as bald eagles, the Affordable Care Act, Women and LGBTQ rights, the environment, guitar pedals, metal music, and his detractors. WFPG ”Trump är som Jokern, nu måste alla vara Batman” Ryan Adams skräms av – och skäms över – Donald Trumps politik. ”Jag vet inte om han är en människa”, säger den albumaktuelle sångaren till Café. Café We took a little bit of a break there, over Christmas and the New Year, but our interview podcast Midnight Chats returns this witching hour with Ryan Adams, who I met at the Langham Hotel last week. I’m pretty sure we managed to hit all the important topics you’re probably after from your music podcasts, from Lil Bub to Ryan’s label Pax Am. Loud And Quiet Ryan Adams is set to release his sixteenth studio album, Prisoner, on February 17. Ahead of its release, the prolific musician stopped by Steve Earle’s Hardcore Troubadour Radio show in Outlaw Country (Ch. 60), where he talked about the early ‘90s music scene in Chapel Hill and how his taste evolved into alt-country.
The former frontman of Whiskeytown — an early ‘90s alt-country band that formed in Raleigh, North Carolina – detailed the music scene in the area and its unlikely connection to c Outlaw Country Radio on SiriusXm Ryan Adams joins Liv & Nick in our Podcast room at Rough Trade East to have a chat, play some of his favourite tracks and talk about his new album, 'Prisoner'. Ryan picks a series of tracks that have influenced him including songs by Sonic Youth, The Melvins, Dinosaur Jr. and The Cure. Rough Trade Radio Ryan Adams on loss, Springsteen and Whitesnake. Following his grandmother’s death and a painful divorce, Ryan Adams has worked through his losses in his music. The Saturday Paper Singer-songwriter Ryan Adams knows there's a stark difference between the way he views the work throughout his career and the popular perception of it. Whether it's his years in Whiskeytown or his song New York, New York becoming a rallying cry after 9-11, Ryan tells Marc why history has created a different narrative of these events than what he experienced at the time and how that guides what he's doing today. WTF Podcast I'm definitely an anglophile - DiS meets Ryan Adams Drowned in Sound Peering into the Abyss with Ryan Adams. We join the newly-divorced singer in LA to dissect his 16th LP 'Prisoner,' but wind up discussing loneliness, black holes, Taylor Swift, and everything in-between. Noisey ?Questionnaire for Ryan Adams. Now, faster than any new fan could possibly digest all that his discography has to offer, Adams is ready to uncage Prisoner. It’s a record that many have been quick to categorize as an emotional response to Adams’ highly publicized divorce from Mandy Moore, but for him, it was an exercise in learning more about himself. Sure, the songs are emotionally intense and flirt with “the rough edges life,” but they also spawned deep introspective questions like “What does i Music Junkie TV Ryan Adams: 'My songs are always just storytelling - they are not political and don't have an agenda'. Having learned how to cope with both Meniere's disease and divorce, singer/songwriter Ryan Adams says ploughing it into his new album has been cathartic. Belfast Telegraph 'LET'S CUT TO THE CHASE' Singer Ryan Adams talks divorce, heartache and breaking free …. the personal journey of his new album ‘Prisoner’. It is clear Adams has moved on since his divorce and the album includes as much optimism as it does sadness. The Sun Ryan Adams: ‘There’s a lot of fight and a lot of light’.
On new album Prisoner, Ryan Adams chronicles the private emotions behind his marriage split with Mandy Moore. ‘My life depended on making it,’ he says The Irish Times Ryan Adams talks death, divorce, recovery and explains his new album ‘Prisoner’ track-by-track NME Ryan Adams On His Newest Studio Album.
Revived and reacquainted with his core sound after a tumultuous decade, Adams looks back to show us the future Nylon Burnt-Out Pedalboards & Fucked-Up Guitars Post To Wire