Ryan Adams blows away the rain and more highlights from Jazz Fest's first Saturday
 

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It was appropriate that the end of one of the worst weather days at Jazz Fest ended with black metal. After an hourlong sideways downpour, looming dark clouds, and whipping winds that made some parts of the New Orleans Fairgrounds feel like a wind tunnel (with everyone's weather gear and flagpoles dramatically flapping in the wind's wake), the sun showed its face as it set, during Ryan Adams' high voltage rock 'n' roll on the Gentilly Stage ? and just moments before his goofy "black metal" version of Whiskeytown's "16 Days."

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