As a teenager, Ryan Adams dropped some acid and smoked some weed. And even though he drank Mad Dog 20/20 once in a while, he wasn't too impressed with the effects of alcohol. "I always thought it made people stupid," he says. "People who were drunk seemed hypernostalgic." But just shy of his twentieth birthday, Adams was playing a gig with his first band, the Patty Duke Syndrome, at the Fallout Shelter in Raleigh, North Carolina. After the first song,...