Ryan Adams

At 0:05 in the video, Ryan Adams can be seen playing one of his regular acoustics, the Buck Owens American. Once available for just $83, the instrument would now cost over $1000. Harmony’s Sovereign brand later reissued these guitars in a slightly different configuration. They were made in Asia during the early 2000s and can be purchased via the Buck Owens’ Crystal Palace Country Store for under $500.

Ryan Adams discusses the Fender '68 Custom Princeton Reverb amp:

“Hey I'm Ryan Adams and I'm trying out the new [Fender] 68 Custom amps. It’s shiny, it wants to be played. It reminds me of classic pinball machines. The nice blue light in there and clean lines. One of the things I like about it is that the volume is contained in this small box. I feel like I can push the kind of volume where I don't lose tone, and I don't destroy my own ears, and I can push the amplifier itself.

The sweet spot - people will say it's different ones - but it’s around 3.5 to 4.5 is where mine kinda starts to break up naturally, and you hear the tubes kinda starting to fry the egg a little bit. I love that sound. And then I can use the guitar appropriately, and I can play much quieter. I could be playing just a voicing and just use my thumb, and then dig in and you can hear the string - I love that. I need the dynamic range.

The reverb in that box, for some reason, even in these new ones it has a quality that's really hard to describe, where I can lose the signal and get a tone that has something to do with the reverb when I want, but I also can- any the guitar stabs you do, they get the perfect trail that's a tone its own self.

In my mind the Princeton does this incredible thing for me where it sounds a little bit like Johnny Marr is using Jerry Garcia’s rig. And something is wrong with him and he’s not playing as good as he should be, but I really like that. And also strangely reminds me of The Replacements guitar tones - the tones you can hear that make sense on the Tim era. And some of that could have been the production or whatever but when you really wanna put just a little bit of an overdrive on a Princeton, you don't have to use much.

I will not use any amp but a Princeton on any record ever, and have never - ever. Not since 2005. It’s just my amp.”

There is a clear shot of the Harmony guitar that Ryan Adams is playing in this video at 1:23.

Ryan Adams posts a photo of his amp rig on his Twitter. He says, "My rig in HIGHbernation waiting to roll at InvictusLondon." The large amp in the back most closely matches the Fender 65 Princeton Reverb 15W 1x10 Tube Guitar Combo Amp (a Vintage Reissue amplifier).

-Adams could be seen playing his beloved ES-355 named "Peanut" numerous times within the last years.

"While Adams cycled through a couple of Fender Stratocasters and even a Gibson SG, it's not until he dons his walnut Gibson ES-355, nicknamed "Peanut" and arguably the guitar most associated with Adams, that his approach shines through." - K.C. Libman (Phoenix New Times)

He can be spotted with a 1974 D-25M (mahogany) on different live videos. For example on the 2002 CMT Crossroads tv series where played with Elton John or the Sessions@AOL program. It has a big sticker on it that reads "Indianapolis Motor Speedway". This was also the guitar that was used for the "Heartbreaker" album.

In early 2017 Adams bought a vintage Italian EKO Ranger 6 (Elektra version), stating that he lately had some issues with his main guitar, the Buck Owens American.

Adams was playing a Tele deluxe when Letterman had him play "Gimme something Good" twice in a row. http://www2.fender.com/experience/artists/letterman-audience-gets-another-ryan-adams-encore/

Ryan is seen here playing his walnut Gibson ES-355. The image is from this interview, done by Gibson Guitars.

This picture was taken in 2011. Adams gave his 1967 Southern Jumbo, covered with Star Wars stickers, to the Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio. A sign next to the guitar said, that he used it to compose and to record his albums "29" (2005), "Jacksonville City Nights" (2005), "Cold Roses" (2005) and "Easy Tiger" (2007).

In this picture Adams can be seen playing an Epiphone Frontier around 2005.

There are many videos of Ryan playing his vintage Grammer G-20 on his Instagram page.

For example, on this Instagram video you can see him playing it: https://www.instagram.com/tv/B9-WFkVJhaL/?igshid=fro84bs77kax

In a performance at ACL, as captured in the YouTube video by pigtailprimavera, Ryan Adams is seen using an Epiphone FT-79 Texan acoustic guitar while playing "Let It Ride."

About this delay pedal Adams wrote: "If you play guitar and want to go to space for way cheaper than on a soviet satellite repair rocket, get this fucker. By @chaseblissaudio I have no idea what year it even is anymore after playing this. All I know is this pedal is probably responsible for the #mandelaeffect #tonalrecall PEDALS RULE. ( Stay tuned for a sneak preview of how all these pedals are used on new #PaxAm musics ) GET THIS WHILE YOU CAN. TONAL RECALL. IM BLAZED" on Instagram in early 2017.

Ryan Adams can be seen using the JHS Unicorn pedal in a photo posted on his Twitter page.

Ryan posted a picture of his pedal board on Instagram on Jan 2, 2015 with a Xotic Effects EP Booster Pedal on the left column, second from the top of the board as pictured.

Ryan has posted a couple of pictures to his Instagram & twitter accounts featuring this Flux Capacitor delay pedal.

In march 2017 Adams posted a picture of his pedal board during the "Prisoner" tour. You can see a Black Fountain delay in there.

Various Instagram images over the past few years have shown a pair of Tortenmann TA-100 treble boosters on Ryan's boards. Other sites have misidentified them as the T-28 but they are in fact T-100. Ryan's sound is always evolving and remarkably nuanced. It's exceptionally generous that he quite deliberately posts isolated pictures of his boards from time to time for other musicians to see.

In November 2016 Adams posted this picture on Instagram on which you can see that he uses a JC 120 in his PAX-AM-Studios.

Ryan posted a picture of his pedal board on Instagram on Jan 2, 2015 with a Boss CH-1 SUPER Chorus Pedal on the top right of the board as pictured.

Ryan Adams is seen playing a Fender American Vintage '65 Jazzmaster Electric Guitar during his latest tour, as captured in a Rolling Stone photo.

At 23:13 of this video, Adams reads a question, "what kind of guitar is that?" And replies "Grammer Merle Haggard."

Around 2007-2008, in the days of "Easy Tiger" Adams used this Grammer signature guitar for some acoustic performances.

Here's ryan playing a strat at roskilde festival

Ryan has posted pictures this Boss DM-2 delay pedal to his Instagram account

He uses the Gibson Country Western in the video shoot for New York New York. At 0.26 seconds in you can clearly see him playing this guitar in the video. This video was filmed just before the towers were hit on 9/11. One if the last videos of the towers still standing in the background of the video.

This screenshot from Ryan's old Instagram account (misterryanadams) shows a clear photo of the H164.

"New ride. Unreal @bensonamps Holy moly" - Ryan Adams, Instagram (@misterryanadams)

In this video Ryan covers Wharf Rat by the Grateful Dead using a Bedell Coffee House dreadnought acoustic guitar

In 2002 Adams used a Hummingbird during his AOL-Session.