Tag: 1989

Watch Kacey Musgraves’ Tiny Desk Concert

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Kacey Musgraves stopped by NPR for their Tiny Desk Concert series, performing four tracks from her stellar new album Pageant Material. She closes with "Follow Your Arrow," in honor of the Supreme Court ruling in favor of marriage equality that had passed just hours before Musgraves and her band recorded their performance. Watch it below.

Other Roots Music News:

• Hot Rize released a music video for "Your Light Leads Me On."

• Jewel is releasing an Americana album and joined the Americana Fest lineup. 

• ClickHole raised enough money to buy Bob Dylan his very own Sleep Number bed. 

• Jeff Tweedy explained how Wilco titled their most recent album Star Wars. 

• Ryan Adams has finished recording 1989, and Wired has a complete history of the project. 

Ryan Adams Is Gonna Party Like It’s ‘1989’

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There's never a dull moment in the career of Ryan Adams, but he may have just topped himself with his latest move: covering Taylor Swift's chart-topping 2014 release 1989 start to finish… in the style of the Smiths. He's already shared a clip or two, and it sounds pretty epic.

Read more at Rolling Stone.

Other Roots Music News:

• Go behind the scenes of the making of Indigo Girls' "One Lost Day."

• Ashley Monroe covered John Mellencamp's "Pink Houses."

• Bruce Springsteen earned the distinct honor of serving as Jon Stewart's last Moment of Zen. [Consequence of Sound] 

• Laura Marling performed "I Feel Your Love" on The Late Late Show with James Corden.

• IBMA announced their film festival selections. [Bluegrass Today] 

Ryan Adams photo by Alice Baxley, courtesy of Nasty Little Man.