I am a BIG time Rodney Crowell fan and I have to rate this as his best album by far. If you like him and you don't have this one, you must get it.
Rodney Crowell's new cd "Fates right hand," is well worth a listen. Couple of songs are kind of pop but overall is very good
I am a hard one to please in the music category. I can find fault with
virtually everything and I must confess... I am hard pressed to find
one thing I do not like about this album. The title track of this album
is a much welcome departure for Crowell with it's Dylan-esque feel to
it. It is bone honest and inspiring. Then a song like this is is
counterbalanced with ""Come on Funny Feeling" that is carefree and
childlike. There are some great contributing players on this album
including Gillian Welch whose harmonies on "Time to Go Inward" are
haunting. This album is almost self deprecating with songs like "The
Man in Me" and makes you want to be able to see yourself with that
level honesty he seems to posses... as uncomfortable as that might be.
This is unlike any of his earlier works in that it is deep in meaning
and content, but it has not lost a bit of that Rodney Crowell energy
that is infectious.
Crowell has long been known for being a prolific song writer and a prominent producer and this album does nothing but solidify that label. "Still Learning How to Fly" is nothing but well written and musically, with Jerry Douglas on Dobro, it is amazing.
"Earthbound" resonates deep as Crowell sings about not being ready to leave this Earth just yet, while Bela Fleck adds banjo to the track that creates an angelic, ethereal quality to the song.
This album is self exposing to the point where we, the listener, are almost made to feel uncomfortable. As if we are peeping Toms, discovering too much about a man. Yet you just cannot stop listening and wanting to uncover even more.
"Adam's Song" is perhaps my favorite. I read in a publication recently that he wrote it for a friend who's son, Adam, died at a young age and Crowell sang it at the boy's funeral. It is moving to the core. Striped down and simple in it's arrangement. "We don't want to say good bye. We don't want to feel that empty"... for anyone who has ever lost a loved one, this strikes deep at the heart.
Just Crowell's voice and an acoustic guitar are enough to carry any album, but add Gillian Welch, Dave Rawlings, Kim Richey, John Cowan and a cast of some of the finest musicians and you have a record worthy of much acclaim.
I thought it did not get any better than Crowell's last album, The Houston Kid, but I have been proven wrong.
Buy this record.
rodney crowell can write like no other songwriter i've ever
heard. he belongs on the same level as jerry jeff and
willie nelson. he is a one of a kind, truly incredible
musician. you'll love him, too.
Rodney Crowell truely is the song writers songwriter.
I love the way he writes and sings his own stuff, not caring if people like it or not.
If you don't like Rodney for who he is, then you won't like him at all.
"The Houston Kid" is a perfect example of this just like all the music he has released before it.
Keep on doin' what you're doin' Rodney.
What a singer !What a writer!what a artist!and he can play the hell out of a guitar! I HAVE BEEN LISTENING and WATCHING AND BUYING FOR OVER 20 YEARS,SINCE HIS hotband and Cherry BOMB DAYS.
--ROBERT WHITE--US ARMY
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There is no better songwriter known. "Till I Gain Control Again","A Song for the Life", "I Walk the Line", the list goes on. Rodney Crowell is the original Texas songwriter.