Also awaiting release: 17 new songs and a live recording of his Exile on Main Street tribute concert.

“That’s crazy. That’s a lot of wind.”

The song and animated video were made so Adams could do the live weather forecast on the local Denver station.

The singer-songwriter writes an ode to the station that premiered it.

A pair of indie darlings take the stage as part of the show’s season 14 finale.

He’ll be joined by Stones producer Don Was and an as yet-to-be-announced band of notable musicians.

Lizzy Goodman’s oral history of the NYC rock scene recounted a drug-fueled friendship between Hammond and Ryan Adams.

The follow-up to last year’s fantastic album, Prisoner, appears to be on the way.

“A song to one’s baby, whom they love — a unique twist on Ryan Adams’ classic recipe, with key ingredient ‘sad’ replaced ‘happy.’”

Here are the tracks that by and large reacted to the year with beauty and positivity.

These are the albums we leaned on most during a year we’re eager to forget.

Listen to these with a candle burning and you’ll see your favorite films.