Ryan Adams Emails Bryan Adams Every Year on Their Shared Birthday

A new New York Times essay by Ryan Adams gives a detailed account of the first night the singer-songwriter was properly heckled. It wasn’t just any heckle: It was the notorious “Play ‘Summer of ’69’!” heckle. The joke behind the taunt is that the name “Ryan Adams” sounds a lot like “Bryan Adams,” the 1980s Canadian radio-rock icon…