Ryan Adams Cancels Tour

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Ryan Adams has cancelled his thirteen-date U.S. tour due to a broken wrist he suffered in a stage fall last week in England.

Adams lost his footing during the last song of a performance at the Royal Court Theater in Liverpool on January 22nd, falling six feet from the stage and fracturing his left wrist. Twelve European dates were nixed through February 10th.

The singer-songwriter will undergo surgery next week. Recuperation and physical therapy time forced him to call off the American dates, which were to begin March 2nd in Columbia, Missouri.

Adams had planned to support a trio of late-2003 releases: the Rock N Roll album and the dual Love Is Hell, Part 1 and Love Is Hell, Part 2 EPs.

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