David Ryan Adams (born November 5, 1974) is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, artist, and poet. He has released 22 albums, as well as three studio albums as a former member of rock/alt-country band Whiskeytown. In 2015, Adams released 1989, a song-for-song cover of Taylor Swift's album of the same name, and worked on up to 80 songs for an album influenced by his divorce from actress and singer-songwriter Mandy Moore. The album, Prisoner, was released in 2017.