Rodney Crowell

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Rodney Crowell (born August 7, 1950) is an American musician known mainly for his work as a singer and songwriter in country music.

Crowell has had five top-one hits on Hot Country Songs, all from his 1988 album Diamonds & Dirt.

He has also written songs and performed for other musicians. Guy Clark and Townes Van Zandt, songwriters, influenced him.

In Emmylou Harris' "Hot Band," Crowell played guitar and performed for three years. In his career, he has received two Grammy Awards, one in 1990 for Best Country Song for the song "After All This Time" and another in 2014 for his album Old Yellow Moon.

Early life

Crowell was born in Houston, Texas, on August 7, 1950, to James Walter Crowell and Addie Cauzette Willoughby.

He came from a musical family, with one grandfather being a church choir leader and the other being a bluegrass banjo player. His grandmother played guitar and his dad performed semi-professionally in bars and honky tonks. He began playing drums in his father's band at age 11. He performed in a variety of garage rock bands in Houston during his teenage years, achieving hits of the day mixed with fewer than 100 people.

Personal life

Martha Dant Watts, Crowell's husband, and their daughter Hannah were born in May 1976. The brief marriage ended in divorce, with Crowell inheriting Hannah's custody. Crowell continued to marry Rosanne Cash (daughter of Johnny Cash) from 1979 to 1992, influencing each other's careers, with Crowell releasing the bulk of her albums during that period and her fame inspiring his songwriting. They worked on a variety of duets, including 1988's "It's Such a Small World." Although Crowell and Cash are now divorced, they are still on friendly terms and continue to perform together occasionally. Caitlin (b.) is the third child of Crowell and Cash's three children. Chelsea (b. 1980) Chelsea (b. b. Carrie, 1982) and Ferdinand (b. 1982) are a pair. (1998). Claudia Church was married in 1998 by Crowell, who lives south of Nashville.

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Career

After being discovered by Jerry Reed in August 1972, he moved to Nashville, Tennessee, in search of a musical career and started a career as a singer. Guy Clark, a songwriter who later became a major influence on his songwriting and vice versa, met and befriended him. "I got a real cold splash in the face of what true songwriting is all about," he said. With as many symbols and pictures as I could, I began to fill my head as well as myself. I began reading. I was really hungry to have something to contribute" when I first learned about it. Emmylou Harris had recorded "Bluebird Wine," one of Crowell's songs, on her Pieces of the Sky album, and she had to meet him. She begged Emmylou to play rhythm guitar in her backing band, The Hot Band, after he sat in with her at the Armadillo World Headquarters in early January 1975. He accepted and left Emmylou in Los Angeles the next day.

He formed the Cherry Bombs, a side project, in 1977, along with Vince Gill, Tony Brown, and others. A year later, he signed a Warner Bros. Records as a singer, and his debut album, Ain't Living Longer Than This, was released in late 1978.

Despite gaining a large fanbase, his debut album, as well as his two albums, But What Will the Neighbors Think and Rodney Crowell, were not commercially successful. Crowell himself chastised that his debut album did not have the same clarity and enthusiasm in vinyl that he felt in the studio. "How Will the Neighbors Think" -- his single "Ashes by Now" from "But What Will the Neighbors Think" debuted at No. 1. In 1980, Billboard Hot 100 reached 37 positions.

Despite the fact that he had already many country hits by artists covering his songs (including "I Ain't Living Long Like This," by Waylon Jennings, "Leaving Louisiana," by the Oak Ridge Boys, and several others' covers, including "Shame on the Moon," was his first big taste of pop songwriting. On Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band's 1982 album "Shame on the Moon," was recorded. On the album's background harmony, Glenn Frey appeared on Seger. Appealing to a large audience of listeners, the song spent four weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 pop singles chart, topped the adult contemporary chart, and landed in the Top 15 of the country charts in early 1983. Crowell's cult status was boosted by the song's sombre, poetic, and hypnotic style.

Rodney Crowell's album was released in 1981 by Warner Bros. Records (see 1981 in country music), and it was his last album on the label before moving to Columbia. It was his first album, which Crowell produced by himself, that debuted at No. 1. On the Top Country Albums chart, 47 is ranked 47, and No. 59 is No. 1. Billboard 200 albums chart, with 105 on the Billboard 200 albums chart. As singles, "Stars on the Water" and "Victim or a Fool" were released. "Stars on the Water" debuted at No. 1, which was no. 1 in the United States. Crowell's highest charting song to that point is # 30 on the Hot Country Songs chart, at # 30. It reached No. 1 in the world. On the Canadian country charts, 21 is the highest position. No. 1 was a malevolent or a fool. In the United States, 34 people are among 34 people.

In 1981, Crowell put his career on hold to produce several of his wife Rosanne Cash's albums.

Crystal Gayle's album "'Til I Gain Control Again" from her first Elektra album, True Love, debuted in 1983. Emmylou Harris's song was first recorded in 1975 and appeared on Elite Hotel that year.

Crowell returned to active music in 1984, and he produced what was supposed to be a new Warner Bros. Street Language. Warner Bros. denied the record, which was a pop-sounding effort co-produced by David Malloy, and the firm was never released. Warner Bros. wanted a more Nashville-friendly record, but Crowell negotiated a freedom from his employment and moved to Columbia Records.

Crowell signed to Columbia Records in 1986 after composing Rosanne Cash's Rhythm & Romance. Street Language, co-produced with Booker T. Jones, and based on a blend of soul and country music, his first album for that label was reworked. The album did not chart.

Crowell, although best known as a singer and experimental country singer, rose to mainstream fame in the late 1980s and 1990s. Diamonds & Dirt's critically acclaimed 1988 edition had five consecutive No. 1 singles in 1988 and 1989 (a duet with cash), "I Couldn't Leave You If I Tried" and "Above and Beyond" (a preview of Buck Owens' 1962 appearance). The 1990 Grammy Award for Best Country Song was given to Crowell's "After All This Time." In 1990, Keys to the Highway, 1989's Keys to the Highway, had two top-five hits, "Many a Long and Lonesome Highway" and "If Looks Could Kill."

After 1992's Life Is Messy, he left Columbia Records and signed to MCA Records, where he has released two more albums: Let the Picture Paint Itself and Jewel of the South.

In the 1990s and 2000s, Crowell enjoyed success as a songwriter. "Song for Life" by Alan Jackson, "Making Memories of Us" by Keith Womack, "Ashes by Now" by Lee Ann Womack, and "Please Remember Me" by Tim McGraw were among Crowell's hits in the country charts in the decade.

Crowell's first studio album since 1995's Jewel of the South appeared on Sugar Hill Records in 2001, following a brief absence from recording. Many songs on the album were semi-autobiographical, and the album featured a duet Crowell, who performed and appeared as a solo in 1998 with his ex father-in-law Johnny Cash, "I Walk the Line Revisited." Crowell continued his quest with Fate's Right Hand in 2003 and The Outsider in 2005, both of whom appeared on Columbia Nashville, a Sony Music subsidiary. These three albums are considered by leading commentators and Crowell as his best work as a solo artist.

Rodney Crowell was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2003, along with fellow inductees Hal Blair, Paul Overstreet, and John Prine.

The Notorious Cherry Bombs, a reunion of Crowell's 1970s road band, starring Vince Gill and Tony Brown, was released in 2004. On this disc, Keith Urban's "Making Memories of Us" was included. Crowell appeared on the album "Blue Sky Sunrise" as the producer for long-serving Irish singer-songwriter Kieran Goss.

Rodney Crowell was inducted into the Music City Walk of Fame in 2007.

In 2008, Crowell's next album, Sex & Gasoline, was released on Yep Roc Records, putting an end to his association with Sony Music. The album was nominated for Best Contemporary Folk/Americana Album by the Grammy Awards. "I Know Love Is All I Want" and "I Walk the Line," Crowell's book "The World in Six Songs, for which he was interviewed, feature Crowell, "I Know Love Is All I Need," "I Know Love Is What I Need" and "I Walk the Line (Revisited) are included in the book.

Crowell wrote Wynonna Judd's title track to her album Sing: Chapter 1, which also appeared in 2009. Judd's second album release from the album was given several electronic dance music remixes and sent to dance radio. The single ranked No. 1 in August 2009 for the ninth time in August. The United States has a 4 on the US. Billboard's Hot Dance Club Songs chart.

Lifted Off the Ground, Chely Wright's 2009 album, was released on the ground. Wright also appeared in Crowell's 2008 music video for his album "Sex and Gasoline."

In 2011, Vintage Books published Crowell's memoir, Chinaberry Sidewalks. Crowell's relationship with his parents' marriage and his own early years growing up in Houston, Texas, is the subject of "Chinaberry Sidewalks."

KIN: Songs by Rodney Crowell and Mary Karr were released in 2012 by Vanguard Records. Karr wrote the lyrics and Crowell set them to music, but Crowell took them to music. KIN was Karr's first foray into songwriting. On the album, Crowell performed four songs, one as a duet with Kris Kristofferson. A number of other artists recorded Norah Jones, Vince Gill, Lucinda Williams, Lee Ann Womack, Rosanne Cash, Kris Kristofferson, and Emmylou Harris.

On February 26, 2013, Crowell and Emmylou Harris released Old Yellow Moon under Harris' long-time name Nonesuch Records. The album debuted on Billboard's Country Album chart and at Number 29 on the Billboard Hot 200 charts, at number four, and Number 29 on Billboard's Country Album chart. The album received the American Music Awards' Album of the Year award in 2013, and Crowell and Harris were named group/duo of the year in 2013. When Old Yellow Moon received the Grammy Award for Best Americana Album on January 26, 2014, Crowell collected his second Grammy Award. The Traveling Kind was launched by Crowell and Emmylou Harris on Nonesuch Records on May 11, 2015.

On April 15, 2014, Crowell's first album on New West Records, Tarpaper Sky, was released. Crowell co-produced the album with his long-time collaborator, Steuart Smith. Crowell was hired as music director for the Hank Williams biopic I Saw the Sun in the fall of 2014.

Crowell appeared on "It Doesn't Hurt Right Now," a song he co-wrote with Jewel on her album Picking Up the Pieces as well as "Holy War," a track on Chely Wright's 2016 album "I Am the Rain." On December 20, 2016, Crowell released a music video for the song "It Ain't Over Yet," which features guest vocals from Rosanne Cash and John White, as well as Mickey Raphael's harmonia. The song appears on his album Close Ties, which was released in 2017. "I'm Tied To Ya" is also included on the album as a duet with Sheryl Crow.

Crowell received the Academy of Country Music's Poet Award for his work in songwriting in 2019. On August 15, 2019, he also released TEXAS, a collaborative album.

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