Jacksonville, NC, singer/songwriter Ryan Adams has courted controversy ever since founding the volatile seminal alt-country band Whiskeytown, in 1994. While that band’s albums were greeted with resounding critical acclaim, their lineup was famously unstable and their concerts hit-or-miss affairs. Nonetheless, Adams gained national recognition as a promising young talent, embarking on a tremendously prolific, much publicized, genre-bending solo career, beginning with 2000’s Heartbreaker. ...