Ryan Adams is cooler than you.

He's smoking a cigarette WHILE HE'S PLAYING! I've seen Keith Richards, Eric Clapton, and many others stick lit cigarettes under the strings on the headstock of their guitars, but I've never seen someone smoke while playing.

Plus, he's wearing bell bottom jeans and a tie.

While playing an amazing song which starts slow, and ends up rocking, and he doesn't even pass the solo off to the "real" guitar player that so many singer-songwriter rockers do.

I know he's an asshole in real life, but who cares? I'm pretty sure James Brown was too.