Ryan Adams Teams With Johnny Depp for New 7", Covers the Dead Kennedys’ "Moon Over Marin" With Jello Biafra

Ryan Adams has announced No Shadow, a new 7″ in his Pax-Am Singles Series. This one features actor Johnny Depp, as Stereogum points out. It’s out on January 13. Adams wrote a post on Pax-Am’s website explaining how it all came together, in which he refers to Depp as “one of the deepest guitar players out there”:

Johnny came rumbling into PaxAm one night with this riff and an idea of what it was about- a few hour later and one take on a 2 inch 24 track tape machine later we had No Shadow… typed up on my manual typewriter and born and delivered from a simple riff we found on his i phone. Johnny is a real songwriter and one of the deepest guitar players out there. Thats us singing and playing and playing all the parts ourselves with just our pal Marshal Vore on drums.

 The B side is from the first night we met where all we did was play and didn’t say a word. This was the third thing we ever played together and there was no discussion. True rock and roll moments, as they should be, unfussy and delivered with all the heart and soul we had that night.

 Track three is a little song I wrote about being stoned in the 7-11 parking lot across from Pax which is groundhog day for me and most that fly with us.

Earlier this fall, Depp joined Adams on stage during a concert in London to cover Danzig. He also appears on two songs on Adams’ latest album. 

Adams also brought out Dead Kennedys singer Jello Biafra at a recent show in San Francisco to perform the Dead Kennedys, “Moon Over Marin”. You can watch a video of that below, via Stereogum.

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