Fri 10/21 @ 8-10PM
Rodney Crowell, who is now 72, has had a long and frequently successful career in country music, especially as a songwriter.
He arrived in Nashville in 1972 and began to hone his chops, writing for artists such as Emmy Lou Harris, whose band he performed with for several years, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Tim McGraw, Keith Urban, Rosanne Cash (his ex-wife) and even Bob Seger (“Shame on the Moon”) and the Grateful Dead (“California Earthquake”).
He released his first solo album in 1978, but it wasn’t until 1988’s Diamonds & Dirt that he found some commercial success as an artist, enjoying a string of hits from 1988-1992. As country music began to change into party music in the ’90s, he fit more comfortably into the so-called Americana scene, whose young artists were influenced by the likes of Crowell and those he’d worked with.
Crowell has just released a new book called Word for Word, which includes 150 of his songs, along with commentary (including from Rosanne Cash), stories, artwork, photos and images of personal artifacts such as handwritten first drafts of songs.
He’ll be at the Rock Hall to read from the book and share some of his songs.Tickets are $28 and don’t include museum admission. Get them here.
rockhall.com/events/rodney-crowell-word-word-tour