Ryan Adams to Release Smiths-Style Taylor Swift Cover Album

Adams, who also recently covered Foo Fighters live, revealed the news of his surprise project on Twitter, later sharing a snippet of his “Welcome To New York” cover via Instagram (see below).

This morning, Ryan Adams filled his Twitter and Instagram accounts with a series of small but potent pronouncements: he’s now in the midst of recording covers of all of Taylor Swift’s 1989, and was dropping the news seemingly mid-recording.

Swift responded to Adams directly, still excited about the album. In fact, back when Taylor released the music video for her Harry Styles-inspired tune “Style”, many fans thought its dreamy and avant garde aesthetic was better suited for “Wildest Dreams”. As he noted in a tweet to Swift, “We’re sandblasting them and they’re holding steady”. “He wrote, “#2 Blank Space…

Ryan Adams is probably a genius, and gave us Heartbreaker, which is just about as good an acoustic alt country album that’s ever been recorded.

“Guaranteed saddest version of Welcome to New York ever”, he captioned one photo, “or your tears back”.