"Answering Bell" is a song by alt-country singer-songwriter Ryan Adams from his 2001 album Gold.
[1] The song features Counting Crows frontman Adam Duritz on backing vocals.
[2] When Ryan Adams performed the song on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno in February 2002, Duritz sang with the band.
[3] A music video for the song, directed by Luke Scott, was shot in January 2002.
[5] Adams reportedly got the idea for the video while sick in bed in a Hamburg, Germany hotel room, delirious from the flu medication he was taking.