Results for "Rodney Crowell"

Rodney Crowell

Jenny Scheinman Brings the Experience of Awe

by Dean Nardi
November 20, 2024

Play your violin for us like that wild, joyful hippie girl. You who look as if you might have come from the steppes of Russia instead of the Lost Coast, a remote region of northern California prone to earthquakes and mudslides. You who galloped into school on a snorting mare, its hair used to string the ...

Triage

By Rodney Crowell

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2021
Track listing: Don't Leave Me Now; Triage; Transient Global Amnesia Blues; One Little Bird; Something Has to Change; Here Goes Nothing; I'm All About Love; The Girl on the Street; Hymn #43; This Body Isn't All There Is To Who I Am.

Rodney Crowell: Triage

by Doug Collette
August 29, 2021

Even if the listener isn't aware of Rodney Crowell's personal history in recent years, the veteran songwriter and recording artist may still sound a bit defensive during his metaphysical rumination that closes Triage. In the end, however, “This Body Isn't All There Is To Who I Am" is a logical, perhaps even inevitable, culmination of the ...

Late Summer 2019

by Doug Collette
September 4, 2019

Blues Deluxe is a regular column comprised of pithy takes on recent blues and roots-music releases of note. It spotlights titles in those genres that might otherwise go unnoticed under the cultural radar. The Mike Duke Project ...took a while Little Village Foundation 2019 ...took a while ...

King Crimson: Sailors' Tales 1970-1972

by John Kelman
November 11, 2017

If it's a fundamental truth that adversity can sometimes bring the absolute best, creatively speaking, out of music and the people who make it, then the roughly 23 months following the release of King Crimson's classic 1969 debut, In the Court of the Crimson King (Island)--and, after a single North American tour, the breakup of its ...

The Life & Songs of Emmylou Harris

by Doug Collette
December 3, 2016

Various Artists The Life & Songs of Emmylou Harris Rounder Records 2016 When Emmylou Harris truly began her solo career, after working with the late Gram Parsons upon recommendation from Chris Hillman, she quite quickly transcended the s 'cosmic American music' created by the former member of the Byrds and the ...

Tarpaper Sky

By Rodney Crowell

Label: New West Records
Released: 2014
Track listing: The Long Journey Home; Fever On The Bayou; Frankie Please; God I'm Missing You; Famous Last Words of A Fool In Love;Somebody's Shadow; Grandma Loved That Old Man; Jesus Talk To Mama; I Wouldn't Be Me Without You; The Flyboy & The Kid; Oh What A Beautiful World

Rodney Crowell: Tarpaper Sky

by Doug Collette
June 7, 2014

Tarpaper Sky reaffirms Rodney Crowell's position as one of the most literate of contemporary songwriters. At the same time, it exhibits his unusual savvy as a musician and bandleader as he collects a core quintet to skillfully elicit both the intelligence and emotion of his original material. In its prolonged gestation before and after ...

Kinky Friedman Announces Hanukkah US Tour 2011

October 27, 2011

AUSTIN, Texas—The Kinkster is back on the road this holiday season with his Hanukkah Tour of 2011. Taking time off from finishing up a book with Billy Bob Thornton and formulating one with Willie Nelson, Kinky Friedman will visit 14 cities in the Midwest, West and Southwest, starting November 29. In addition, the tour is bookended ...