NEWBEATS
Over the past decade or so, Rodney Crowell has built a well-deserved rep as one of country music’s freshest resources, quietly bucking the Nashville establishment’s spineless conservatism with intelligent, heartfelt music that’s always owed as much to his rock ’n’ roll influences as it did to his country roots.
NEWBEATS
RODNEY CROWELL MELLENCAMP?
Over the past decade or so, Rodney Crowell has built a well-deserved rep as one of country music’s freshest resources, quietly bucking the Nashville establishment’s spineless conservatism with intelligent, heartfelt music that’s always owed as much to his rock ’n’ roll influences as it did to his country roots.
As a producer, Crowell has helmed albums for the likes of Rosanne Cash (to whom he’s married), Guy Clark and Albert Lee. His compositions have been covered by everybody from Emmylou Harris (of whose touring band he was a member for a while) to Bob Seger to the Oak Ridge Boys to Nana Mouskouri (yip!). And Crowell’s three Warner Bros. LPs, Ain’t Living Long Like This, But What Will The Neighbors Think and Rodney Crowell, have won him admirers on both sides of the rock/country fence.