Artist: Rodney Crowell
Column from web archive December 31, 2008
Like a ship out in the night…
In the days and weeks following 9/11, pronouncements over how our lives had been permanently altered flowed upstream and down. Irony was declared dead (sayonara David Letterman). Sensitivity had its i’s double-dotted, leading Clear Channel Communications to order its more than 1,000 radio outlets not to play dozens of songs it deemed tasteless in this [...]
Column from web archive October 22, 2008
A few bucks short of a
Million Dollar Quartet
“All these long years later it’s still music to my ear/I swear it sounds as good right now as anything I hear/I’ve seen the Mona Lisa, I’ve heard Shakespeare read real fine/It’s just like hearing Johnny Cash sing ‘I Walk The Line’.” For Rodney Crowell, hearing “I Walk The Line” for the first time, sitting [...]
Record Review from web archive October 1, 2008
Rodney Crowell
[Editor's note: The following piece appears in No Depression #76, the first in a new "bookazine" series edited by No Depression and published by University of Texas Press.] Has an artist ever enjoyed being unshackled from expectations more than Rodney Crowell? It has been more than a decade since he left his hitmaking days in [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #59 Sept-Oct 2005
Rodney Crowell – Preachin’ to the choirs
Consider the curious dual identity of Rodney Crowell. On the one hand, there is the mainstream star who racked up five #1 singles in a row with his 1988 commercial breakthrough Diamonds And Dirt. The man who married into country music’s most prestigious dynasty, the Carter-Cash clan, when he wed Rosanne Cash in 1979 (they [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #53 Sept-Oct 2004
Rodney Crowell – McGonigel’s Mucky Duck (Houston, TX)
Like the great line from “She’s Crazy For Leavin’”, Rodney Crowell knows when he is in Houston he’s playing “to a busload of honkies who never forget.” His rare homecoming gigs always seem to turn into what my buddy calls white trash cultural experiences, with the familiarity and comfort of home turf providing the Houston [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #47 Sept-Oct 2003
Rodney Crowell – Fate’s Right Hand
Listen up, kids. You know what awaits in middle age: resignation, complacency, compromise, numbing nostalgia, a life sentenced to domestic drudgery. Hope I die before I get old, right? Well, at the ancient age of 53, Rodney Crowell has not only stared into the abyss of wrinkles and gray hair, he has made a flying [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #31 Jan-Feb 2001
Rodney Crowell – Born on the Bayou
One morning in the summer of 1956, when Rodney Crowell was not quite six years old, his father rousted him from bed before dawn and hustled him into the back seat of a borrowed 1949 Ford. Three cane fishing poles leaned out the window of the jet-black, white-walled roadster, and with his chin resting on [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #31 Jan-Feb 2001
Rodney Crowell – Diamonds and Dirt
These three reissues — the first from Legacy’s top-shelf “American Milestones” series, the latter two from Lucky Dog’s “Pick of the Litter” series — comprise the “commercial” portion of Rodney Crowell’s solo recording career. These albums were preceded by an encouraging run of releases at Warner Bros. that cemented his reputation as a songwriter par [...]
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