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 ...

Rodney Crowell made his reputation out of writing some of the most fiercely intellectual, against-the-commercial-grain songs in country music, but he took a completely different route for his debut ...

“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 ...

As part of the Americana Festival, Guy Clark and long-time compadre Rodney Crowell discussed the legacy of Woody Guthrie at a panel on Thursday. The two songwriters played a few Woody songs, too.