Rodney Crowell

Rodney Crowell

Person / b. 1950 / United States

country folk

Biography

Rodney Crowell is an American musician, known primarily for his work as a singer and songwriter in country music. Crowell has had five number one singles on Hot Country Songs, all from his 1988 album Diamonds & Dirt. He has also written songs and produced for other artists.

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Analysed songs (10)

'till I Gain Control Again

Rodney Crowell

A wandering traveler's confession set as a plea for steady love, this song uses natural imagery — sun, road, sea, lighthouse —…

itinerancy and homecoming emotional instability dependence on a steady partner

56 Fury

Rodney Crowell

A rockabilly-style car song that celebrates a 1956 Plymouth Fury as an icon of speed, style, and small-town swagger from the…

Americana nostalgia masculinity and status regional pride (Texas)

Above And Beyond (The Call Of Love)

Rodney Crowell

A plainspoken proposal song built almost entirely around one repeated pledge: that devotion, not money, will be the measure of a…

romantic devotion class and money courtship and destiny

Earthbound

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Rodney Crowell weighs the pull of escape—into fantasy, death, or transcendence—against the stubborn pleasures of ordinary life,…

mortality and mid-life reflection gratitude versus escapism love and social barriers

I Walk the Line

Rodney Crowell

Rodney Crowell builds a memory song around a childhood car ride and the moment he first heard Johnny Cash's classic, using the…

nostalgia musical inheritance family and rural childhood

It Ain't Over Yet

Rodney Crowell

A weathered narrator takes stock of a life full of mistakes, near-collapses, and stubborn survival, addressing a longtime friend…

aging and mortality friendship as salvation self-deprecation and regret

Old Pipeliner

Rodney Crowell

This is a straight-up blues pastiche built on AAB stanzas and stock boasting imagery, closer to a jam vehicle than a narrative…

sexual boasting itinerant labor as metaphor blues tradition/homage

Say You Love Me

Rodney Crowell

A road-worn narrator, hungover and rattled by a bar-room bigot, turns to his partner and demands verbal reassurance rather than…

insecurity and reassurance aging and mortality bigotry and disgust

Telephone Road

Rodney Crowell

This is a nostalgic, sensory-dense portrait of a working-class Houston neighborhood seen through childhood memory. Crowell…

working-class childhood nostalgia place and memory

The Last Waltz

Rodney Crowell

A plainspoken country ballad about staying power in a long marriage, built almost entirely around a single refrain that treats…

endurance in marriage acceptance of hardship cyclical time and seasons