Ryan Adams at Gasparilla Music Festival in Tampa, Florida on March 12, 2017. Credit: Anthony Martino c/o Gasparilla Music Festival
Sexual misconduct allegations won’t keep Ryan Adams from touring, or selling tickets.

Saturday’s Mahaffey Theater show is his second stop in Tampa Bay since the 50-year-old Americana icon was at the center of a damning 2019 New York Times expose where several women said Adams dangled success then ”pursued them sexually and in some cases retaliated when they spurned him.”

Adams, a seven-time Grammy winner who’s on the road celebrating the 25th anniversary of his landmark solo LP Heartbreaker, denies the claims and has not had trouble drawing big crowds to theaters across the globe for his return to live music.

Fans will undoubtedly embrace Adams with open arms, and it’ll be interesting to see how he’s doing three months after being forced to storm offstage when a camera flashed during a show in Belfast (he has regularly lashed out when the bulbs go off, citing his Meniere’s disease).

Tickets to see Ryan Adams play Duke Energy Center at Mahaffey Theater in St. Petersburg on Sunday, July 27 are still available and start at $50.

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