Critics’ picks: Two albums and an art-making opportunity

1 Daby Touré, Amonafi: The fifth release from Mauritanian-born, Senegalese-raised and French-based singer-songwriter Daby Touré beautifully reflects his bicultural life. With his warm voice soaring over delicate Afro-pop, folk and R&B grooves, Amonafi is the musical equivalent of a refreshing breeze. For anyone who’s a fan of such West African singers as Youssou N’Dour, Salif Keita or especially Cape Verde’s Boy Ge Mendes, this album is a must.

— Cary Darling

2 Ryan Adams, 1989: It’s one of the more unlikely novelty projects to materialize this year. Singer-songwriter Ryan Adams was so taken with Taylor Swift’s glossy throwback 1989 that he recorded an album-length cover, out now on iTunes. The results are about what you’d expect — Adams turns Swift’s mostly zippy, occasionally moody pop songs into brooding bursts of folk and punk, but they’re no less compelling because of it. If you’ve ached to hear Shake It Off recast as something resembling a coffee-shop dirge, this is the record for you.

— Preston Jones

3 Art Tailgate: The Fort Worth Contemporary Arts gallery is hosting family-friendly art-making parties Saturdays before TCU home games. For the Oct. 3 home game against UT, they are attempting to create the world’s largest collaborative drawing. TCU painting and drawing professor Adam Fung and his students will be wrangling this effort, and everyone is encouraged to join in. Art-making begins at 9 a.m., four hours before kickoff. Free. 2900 W. Berry St., Fort Worth. 817-257-2588; www.theartgalleries.tcu.edu

— Gaile Robinson

This story was originally published September 23, 2015 at 10:09 AM with the headline "Critics’ picks: Two albums and an art-making opportunity."