"16 Days" is a song by alternative country band Whiskeytown and written by Ryan Adams.
It first appeared on Whiskeytown's Strangers Almanac album in 1997, and was released that same year as a CD single.
[2] And an alternate, acoustic version of the song – also recorded during the "Baseball Park" sessions – was released on the 2008 deluxe edition of Strangers Almanac.
[3][4] According to Ryan Adams, the song was released as a single and was getting significant radio airplay until, in a fit of anger, he dared a powerful West Coast radio programmer to take the song off the air.
The programmer obliged, and the song soon disappeared from radio playlists.