WXPN Welcomes the Appel Farm Arts & Music Festival on Saturday, June 2nd. The initial lineup includes Dawes, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Rodney Crowell, Cheryl Wheeler, Sara Watkins of Nickel Creek, Mason Porter, Quincy Mumford & The Reason Why and more to be announced. Tickets are available here .
Gretchen Peters - Dark Angel (w/ Rodney Crowell)
Gretchen Peters - Starting out as a folk/pop performer in Boulder, Colorado, the Nashville-based singer/songwriter has turned out big hits for others (including the Grammy-winning "Independence Day") as well as a series of exquisite solo albums including her last, the 2007 masterpiece Burnt Toast and Offerings... new project arrives after a period of emotional highs and lows, making Peters "rethink what is real" and inspiring an album she describes as "dark...close to the bone...fearless...brutally honest" // Release : Hello Cruel World (January 31) // Sounds [...]
"Dark Angel", a fine new duet with Nashville legend Rodney Crowell, offers a sneak peak at Hello Cruel World , the forthcoming January 31 album from singer/songwriter Gretchen Peters . Starting out as a folk/pop performer in Boulder, Colorado, Peters has turned out big hits for others (including the Grammy-winning "Independence Day") as well as a series of exquisite solo albums including her 2007 masterpiece Burnt Toast and Offerings. "I never had any aspirations of being a writer for other artists. I want to be understood for who I am," says Peters, [...]
Shelter Now there's a wall between us something has been lost I took too much for granted got my signals crossed Just to think it all began on some long-forgotten morn "Come in," she said, "I'll give you shelter from the storm." Waiting for tomorrow's hurricane. Rodney Crowell - Shelter From The Storm (feat. Emmylou Harris) : The [...]
Down The Abbey Road , a "symphonic celebration of The Beatles' masterwork commissioned by the Mann ," will take place on June 30th at the outdoor Fairmount Park venue. The show is an edition of PECO Pops, a concert series presented by the energy company. The evening will feature The Philadelphia Orchestra , as well as Joan Osborne , Rodney Crowell , and James Nash and the Nashvillains . A "re-imagining of The Beatles," the Thursday night show will highlight the talents from multiple generations. Performing a [...]
Hailed by The Chicago Tribune as "the most innovative songwriter working today" (and certainly one of our favorites), Susan Werner has proven she can pretty much do it all. From her early coffeehouse folk days in the early 90's to her groundbreaking 2004 album I Can't Be New -- where she wrote in the style of classic tunesmiths like Cole Porter -- to her 2007 album of "agnostic gospel" ( The Gospel Truth ), Werner has quietly risen to the elite of American songwriters. Werner's wide breadth [...]
Story time with Uncle Rodney Crowell is a heartwarming way to spend the evening. Once upon a time, in a land called Southeast Texas, there were demonic possessions, grand mal seizures, bottles bus... Continue reading "Show Review and Setlist: Rodney Crowell at Blueberry Hill Duck Room, Monday, February 28" >
There are lots of reasons to hate Rodney Crowell. He's had scores of country hits and penned definitive progressive country anthems such as "'Til I Gain Control Again" and "Old Home Place Revisit... Continue reading "Interview: Rodney Crowell on Memory and Country Music" >
Country musician Rodney Crowell has been making music for the better part of his life, going all the way back to playing drums in a band with his father at the age of eleven. He's worked with Em... Continue reading "Rodney Crowell on his childhood, and the tour for his memoir, Chinaberry Sidewalks" >
If I had the chance, I'd like to shake Rodney Crowell's hand. The country musician's memoir, Chinaberry Sidewalks, is nothing short of a great read. Even for those who aren't country music fans, this is a book that ranks with Russell Baker's Growing Up as a great tale of childhood. ...
Rodney Crowell, singing in his hometown It was a typically low key homecoming for one of Houston's favorite musical sons - Rodney Crowell walked in the front door of Cactus Music & Record Ranch on Monday, guitar case in hand, and asked, "Are you ready?" With little fanfare, one of the greatest songwriters of the past few decades sat on the record store's small stage and started picking a blues tune. "That one was by Lightnin' Hopkins," said Crowell afterward. "How about another one from a Houston songwriter? Townes [...]
Elizabeth Cook's arrived at Americana Central Station steaming in with Don Was, Buddy Miller, Dwight Yoakam, Rodney Crowell and Tim Carroll on-board, Welder is without doubt her best album to date, bringing together a wonderful mix of songs, funny, heart breaking, personal, country, rock n roll, acoustic and electric, the songs include Cook originals, a pair from husband Tim Carroll, one written by her mother Joyce - I'm Beginning to Forget and a pair of covers, Frankie Millers Blackland Farmer and Hem's Not California the album strikes the arc and throws out [...]
Rodney Crowell: Telephone Road [ purchase ] Steve Earle: Telephone Road [ purchase ] Just to be clear before we start... These are two different songs, by two different artists, but they both tell of the same stretch of Houston highway. Telephone Road is a highway in south Houston that [...]
Thought it was time to share another bootleg nugget featuring Rodney Crowell, this time around it's a Mountain Stage set that was aired in Nov 2008, Houston-born songwriter Crowell was jointed by Jenny Scheinman on violin and backing vocals and Will Kimbrough on guitar, percussion and backing vocals, the set starts and finishes with a track from Crowell's last album Sex & Gasoline, one from The Outsider and a pair from the 2001 autobiographical album The Houston Kid. The Rise and Fall of Intelligent Design [...]
Big fun in our hometown over the weekend: we went to the annual Art Car parade , which I've attended with my son for who knows how many years. Just the other day the New York Times did a story where they spent 36 hours in our hometown, and needless to say they missed a lot of the good stuff . How can you spend any time in our hometown and not mention the music? Our little town is an American cradle of blues, country, folk, [...]
Filed under: News , R.I.P. Singer and guitarist Will Owsley , who performed as a power-pop solo artist under his last name and played guitar for the likes of Amy Grant and Shania Twain , died Friday, April 30, Blurt reports. Owsley was pronounced dead at Williamson County Hospital in Franklin, Tenn. sometime around midday. According to the Tennessean , the 44-year-old's death was "an apparent suicide." "We are all reeling today from the news of Will Owsley's death yesterday," Grant said in a [...]
Here's a wonderful set of songs from Rosanne Cash taken from the performance on Mountain Stage that was originally recorded in Nov 2008, Rosanne is accompanied by husband John Leventhal (guitar), Jeff Allen (bass) ,the set kicks of with two tracks from Rosanne's Black Cadillac album, followed by Sea of Heartbreak which she duetted with Bruce Springsteen on her critcally acclaimed album The List [...]
"In an era of fabricated fame, Elizabeth is the real deal" The quote is courtesy of Rodney Crowell who was responsible for the production on Elizabeth's 2007 release Balls, and it pretty well sums it up, Elizabeth's bio like her vocal is pure country, here's a set of songs from her performance on Woodsongs that showcases four tracks from the Balls album along with If I Could penned by her husband Tim Carroll ( eMusic ) [...]
There is no doubt musical talent runs in the family. The daughter of recent Morning Becomes Eclectic guest Rosanne Cash and country musician Rodney Crowell, Chelsea Crowell is forging her own musical direction...
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