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Ryan Adams And The Cardinals
Band New York United States Active 2004–2009 American rock band
Ryan Adams And The Cardinals formed in 2004 in New York, United States and was active until 2009. Ryan Adams And The Cardinals has 18 chart appearances on 14 radio countdowns from 7 stations on RockLists, spanning 2008–2024. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Let It Ride”, which appears on 7 lists with a best position of #140. The station that charted Ryan Adams And The Cardinals most often is WYEP (Pittsburgh, PA), with 7 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2008.
Ryan Adams And The Cardinals came together in New York City in 2004, when the alternative country singer-songwriter put a band around himself and named it, he's said, after his high school football team. The first lineup had Brad Pemberton on drums, Catherine Popper on bass, piano and harmonies, J. P. Bowersock on guitar and Cindy Cashdollar on steel, with Neal Casal and Jon Graboff, on guitar and pedal steel, soon joining in.
Cold Roses, the 2005 record that launched them, is loose and sun-dappled, with guitars twining around each other and steel crying in the corners. "Let It Ride" rolls along with a road-weary shrug, while "Magnolia Mountain" stretches out into a long, hazy ramble. Jacksonville City Nights, Follow the Lights, Cardinology and III/IV followed, and the band also backs Adams on the 2007 album Easy Tiger, though it went out under his name alone.
The Cardinals recorded an album with Willie Nelson in 2006, and after Adams left in 2009 they made one with Gin Wigmore. He returned to front them again in 2023.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Ryan Adams And The Cardinals on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Let It Ride | 7 | #140 | – | – | |
| 2 | Fix It | 7 | #29 | – | 2008 | |
| 3 | Magick | 3 | #13 | – | 2009 | |
| 4 | Magnolia Mountain | 1 | #466 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Year-end chart timeline
Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.
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