MUSIC NEWS
Music Scene: An engaging look into Rodney Crowell’s life
03/04/2011

from Evening Tribune on eveningtribune.com

After decades as a popular performer, successful record producer and acclaimed songwriter at the heart of the alternative country movement, Rodney Crowell wanted to try something different.

“I began tinkering with teaching myself how to write sentences,” said Crowell on the phone from his home in Nashville. “I kept at it, and eventually came up with a manuscript.”

That manuscript became “Chinaberry Sidewalks,” his memoir of growing up in Texas in a musical family, with parents whose tempestuous relationship was not always easy to accept.

Crowell has just started his “Chinaberry Sidewalks Tour” in which he’ll mix songs with storytelling, performing a variety of his tunes and reading from the new book and explaining how it came about.

(read full story on eveningtribune.com)





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