Excellent new Rodney Crowell CD hits the streets in August:
Americana literati Rodney Crowell continues down the path blazed by
his previous three records with *** & Gasoline. Crowell bounded onto
the music landscape in 1988 with the Top 40 crossover album Diamonds
and Dirt, which produced an astoni****ng five number one singles and a
Grammy Award for the single "After All This Time." As part of Emmylou
Harris' original Hot Band, Crowell's musical pedigree is
unquestionable, at one time even earning him the right to remake
Johnny Cash's singular "I Walk the Line" with Cash himself singing
Rodney's reworked melody. With his new album *** & Gasoline, he
continues to write about contem****ary themes. *** & Gasoline was
produced by the legendary Joe Henry and contains what Crowell says
are, "some of the best performances I've given to date." For the new
material Crowell and Henry brought in some of music's most skilled
sidemen including Doyle Bramhall II (acoustic and electric guitar),
Greg Leisz (acoustic and electric guitar, pedal and lap steel,
mandolin, mandocello and dobro), Patrick Warren (piano, pump organ and
Chamberlin), David Piltch (upright and electric bass) and Jay
Bellerose (drums and percussion).
Samples:
http://store.yeproc.com/album.php?id=13717
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