Rodney Crowell

Rodney Crowell has been doing this for a while. In fact, his career has been so long and varied that you have to specify exactly which this you’re talking about.
Fifty years after Crowell first started playing as a teen in Houston garage bands, he still believes in the power of songs, and the responsibility of singing them.

On his new album, Close Ties, Rodney Crowell both demonstrates his strengths as a songwriter and illustrates how he has learned to balance personal recollection, literary sophistication, and his profound musical reach. It is at once his most intimate record and his most accessible, the product of years of understanding the ways songs can enter—and be entered by—life. Upon release, Close Ties debuted on Billboard’s Top 200 chart, as well as at #5 on Americana/Folk Albums and #8 on Top Country Current Albums.