Editing Ryan Adams (section)

==Early life==
David Ryan Adams was born on November 5, 1974, in [[Jacksonville, North Carolina]].<ref name=allmusicbio>{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/ryan-adams-mn0000808336/biography|title=Ryan Adams Biography |first= Mark |last=Deming|access-date= February 14, 2019|website=[[AllMusic.com]]}}</ref> He is the middle child of three, with an older brother and younger sister.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/bobmehr/at-home-kinda-with-ryan-adams|title=Ryan Adams Finally Finds His Way Home|first=Bob |last=Mehr|work=[[BuzzFeed]]|date=September 7, 2014|access-date=November 28, 2014}}</ref> His childhood has been described as "dysfunctional". His father left when he was five at which time he, his mother and his siblings had to move in with his grandparents since they became homeless as a result of the divorce. He has said in an interview, "I became who I am now because of my grandparents"<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/sep/22/ryan-adams-things-got-broken|title=Ryan Adams: 'Things got broken and I couldn't fix them'|first=Dave |last=Simpson|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=September 22, 2011|access-date=November 28, 2014}}</ref> and of his grandmother  "...she was like a mother to me."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.clashmusic.com/feature/so-alive-ryan-adams-interview|title=So Alive – Ryan Adams Interview|work=Clash Magazine|date=October 10, 2014|access-date=November 28, 2014}}</ref> His mother remarried when he was 13.

At the age of eight, Adams began writing short stories and limericks on his grandmother's typewriter. In his own words, "I started writing short stories when I was really into [[Edgar Allan Poe]]. Then later, when I was a teenager, I got really hard into cult fiction: [[Hubert Selby, Jr.]], [[Henry Miller]], [[Jack Kerouac]]." At 14, Adams began learning to play an electric guitar his mother and stepfather had bought him and soon joined a local band named Blank Label. While they quickly disbanded, they did record a short three-track 7-inch record, in 1991.<ref>{{cite book |last=Heatley |first=Michael |author-link= Michael Heatley |title= Ryan Adams |year=2003 |publisher=[[Omnibus Press]] |location=London, England|isbn=0-7119-9435-8  |pages=14–15}}</ref>

Adams dropped out of [[Jacksonville High School (North Carolina)|Jacksonville High School]] in 10th grade, at the age of 16, subsequently moving into bandmate Jere McIlwean's rental house, just outside Jacksonville.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/ryan-adams/biography|title=Ryan Adams Biography|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|access-date=February 24, 2018}}</ref> Around this time, he played and performed with a number of local bands, most notably his and McIlwean's The Patty Duke Syndrome. After obtaining his [[General Educational Development|GED]], Adams left Jacksonville for [[Raleigh, North Carolina|Raleigh]], shortly followed by McIlwean. The Patty Duke Syndrome broke up in 1994<ref>{{cite book |last=Heatley |first=Michael |author-link= Michael Heatley |title= Ryan Adams |year=2003 |publisher=[[Omnibus Press]] |location=London, England|isbn=0-7119-9435-8  |pages=16–20}}</ref> after releasing a [[Split album|split 7-inch single]] with GlamourPuss.