Rodney Crowell pool deck show on Cayamo 2017
The nominees for this year’s Album of The Year have been selected and it’s a mix of new gunslingers, old war horses, and favorite native sons and daughters. The back story has always played a role in the decision process […]
This is the week we have all been waiting for. Let’s face it, we – the Americana Music Association headed by Jed Hilly and the rest of us – have changed Nashville, and significantly influenced other genres as well. No longer […]
This week’s DJ is another Northern Californian, more specifically from the heart of Silicon Valley, Joe Hnilo. I have this vision of a bunch of Google or Apple nerds tapping their toes to some bluegrass while they invent the next […]
If the position of poet laureate continues to exist in the midst of budget cuts to the arts, then Rodney Crowell should surely be a candidate for it. Whether he’ll accept it or not, he’s now assumed the mantle of […]
On Rodney Crowell’s new Close Ties (out March 31 on New West), there’s a thin line between self-mythologizing and self-lacerating, though its edge is sharp enough to draw blood. Crowell once titled one of his lesser albums Life Is Messy; […]
By last count, there are 300,000 books published every year, and that number doubles when you include self-published books. Purely and simply, more books see the light of day than are seen by our own shining lights — and very few shine light on […]
Throw a rock from anywhere you’re standing in Texas, and you’re bound to hit a songwriter. Like churches, there’s a singer-songwriter on every corner in every town of the Lone Star republic. Simply to list the names of recent artists […]
Rodney Crowell is still at the peak of his creative powers at 66. On January 23rd as a part of the GRAMMY Museum’s ongoing Americana Music series, he seemed like an artist half his age still learning and growing in the […]
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