The song, which is technically a cover of a Rodney Crowell tune, reached the very top of the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart that year. He would hold that spot for a whopping five weeks.

'American Idol' Season 10 champ Scotty McCreery is returning to the FOX show on a weekly basis, but not as a competitor. Because the teenager won the 'Idol' crown last season, he never had to hear the ...

Rodney Crowell is a storyteller. Sure, he’s got a resume a mile long that includes a couple of stints as a key member of Emmylou Harris’ Hot Band, a couple of Grammy wins, nine Country top 40 hits ...

Jerry Jeff Walker once stole Rodney Crowell's dog — but he didn't get away with it. That's just one of the stories Crowell shares in his new book, Word for Word, which dropped on Tuesday (Sept. 13) ...

“Shame on the Moon,” most famously recorded by Bob Seger, is one of them. Crowell noted that Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean” kept that song from reaching No. 1 on the Billboard pop singles chart in ...

Rodney Crowell has been Guy Clark’s buddy, Emmylou Harris’ bandmate and one of country music’s biggest hitmakers, and this week he’s Chris Shiflett’s guest on the latest episode of the Walking the ...

Country great Rodney Crowell has seldom seen a life experience that he couldn’t turn into a song. And that includes a truly unsettling experience that he had a year ago this week. Crowell was having a ...

Tarpaper Sky reaffirms Rodney Crowell's position as one of the most literate of contemporary songwriters. At the same time, it exhibits his unusual savvy as a musician and bandleader as he collects a ...

Even with his most successful work, Rodney Crowell knows there’s always room for revision. In 2018, the celebrated singer-songwriter took another crack at the lyrics to “Shame on the Moon,” a 1982 cut ...