Thanks, Ryan Adams

It's all Ryan Adams fault.

If he wouldn't have released 1989, I wouldn't be a 56-year-old man caught singing Taylor Swift songs in public.

Guess I'll just have to shake it off. Thanks a lot, Ryan.

        

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Keith Richards, Gary Clark Jr. and more upcoming releases

Looking forward to a lot of great fall releases, including:

• Beach House, Depression Cherry (out now)
• Gary Clark Jr., The Story of Sonny Boy Slim
• Jewel, Picking Up the Pieces, September 11
• Keith Richards, Crosseyed Heart, September 18
• The Dead Weather, Dodge and Burn, September 25
• Kurt Vile, B'Lieve I'm Going Down, September 25
• Eagles of Death Metal, Zipper Down, October 2
• Ryan Adams, 1989 (in the works)

What new music is on your future playlist?

      

August 10 Playlist: Ryan Adams -- To Be Young (Is To Be Sad, Is To Be High)

It's was a Ryan Adams kind of weekend for me. First the news that made the Internet kind of explode: Adams will cover Taylor Swift's 1989. Check out this tease for his version of "Bad Blood."

Then watching "Old School" (again) on Saturday evening, I was reminded of the great Adams song, "TO BE YOUNG (IS TO BE SAD, IS TO BE HIGH" that kicks off the movie. And I can't stop listening to it.

I admit, I'm late and slow the the Ryan Adams party. My loss. But I'm making up for it with the old stuff, the new stuff, and evidently, with a coming cover of a Taylor Swift album.