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 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 ...

Throughout his career, 91-year-old music icon Willie Nelson has been known to highlight the music catalogs of other artists and songwriters, including Frank Sinatra, Cindy Walker, Kris Kristofferson ...

Throughout the many decades of his long career, the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Rodney Crowell has never been one to look in the rear view mirror or dwell too much on his past, as successful and ...

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) ...

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 ...

In 1988, Rodney Crowell was already known as a talented sideman and an impressive songwriter: he played guitar and sang in Emmylou Harris’ band for several years, and scored credits on hits for Waylon ...

Rodney Crowell has a new album, and it's the most personal set of songs of his lengthy career. Entitled Triage, it tackles the theme of universal love. During an era when people are divided on so many ...

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 ...

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.

This month, country music royalty Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell released a beautiful collection of duets, The Traveling Kind. Harris has 13 Grammy wins, while Crowell has two of his own and ...