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Ryan and the Cardinals (w/ Catherine Popper stepping in on the background vocals instead of Kim Richey) performing on Letterman. Dave does seem to really love Ryan's music. And I love that he chose to play this instead of one of his other songs. I mean he was touring to promote his new album, but decided to play a song from Heartbreaker instead. Rock.
If only the FCC would get a life and stop censoring everything, then we would get to hear the whole song without vocals cutting out. Grow up, there are more important things to fix in this world than a couple bad words.


I found this interesting music video on YouTube as well. It is actually the original video shot for Ryan's song "New York, New York" on Gold. But the album release date and video editing all fell right at September 11, not that they could do anything about that... When they decided to re-edit the music video and use the original "performing" shots, in spite of having the Twin Towers in the background, they used different footage for the B roll. The video they released was really good, but I like this footage a lot too. I can see why they changed the focus of the video and because of that, the song was a very popular song to rally around following the tragedy. Putting the music for "When the Stars Go Blue" over top of the video creates an oddly intense effect. Also, having the whole video be "silent," in the sense that it has no shots of Ryan performing or singing, really adds to the power of the lyrics.


For good measure, here's the video they released for "New York, New York"