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RADIO
 WORLD CAFE 08/05/05
Rodney Crowell, Taking Country Far Afield
by David Dye
set list
• "Say You Love Me"
• "The Obscenity Prayer"
• "The Outsider"
• "Dancin' Circles Round the Sun (Epictetus Speaks)"
• "Beautiful Despair"
VIDEO
View an entire hour of streaming video dedicated to Rodney Crowell's songs at his appearance on the Woodsongs Radio Hour. Click here and go to show #357!
 View the video of Earthbound, the first single from Fate's Right Hand, as seen on CMT. Rodney worked with award-winning director Nigel Dick and features musicians and friends Bela Fleck, Will Kimbrough and Russell Smith, Tony & Anastasia Brown, J.D. Souther, Claudia Church, Carmella Ramsey and Kenny Vaughan.
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NEW RODNEY CROWELL ALBUM
OUT AUGUST 16TH
Following a six-year hiatus at the end of the ’90s, Rodney Crowell has returned in the 21st century with his formidable skills still arcing skyward. The critically acclaimed The Houston Kid (2001) and Fate’s Right Hand (2003) were arguably his deepest, most fully-developed records in a long, glittering career. Now, Crowell is set to up the ante yet again with THE OUTSIDER, due on Columbia Records, a division of Sony BMG Entertainment, on August 16th.
Fueled by a muscular crew of Nashville rockers (led by Will Kimbrough on guitar) and including a host of guest vocalists (Emmylou Harris, John Prine, Beth Nielsen Chapman, Buddy & Julie Miller and J.D. Souther), The Outsider finds Crowell deftly crisscrossing genre borders in his rowdiest and most socio/politically outspoken effort ever. From the blazing ’60s garage rock of "Say You Love Me" to the exquisite duet with Emmylou on Dylan’s "Shelter From The Storm," from the in-your-face punk punch of "The Obscenity Prayer" to the gospel choir on "Ignorance Is The Enemy," Rodney Crowell is firing on all cylinders and taking no prisoners.
REVIEWS
MIX
Crowell's latest, The Outsider, is perfect for anyone seeking out adult music that offers a provocative marriage of heart and mind... read more
by Rick Clark
NOW WEEKLY
Three decades on, his songs are more pointed and poignant than ever... read more
by Tim Perlich
STOMP AND STAMMER
RC featured on the cover of Stomp and Stammer. read the interview...
by Bob Townsend
Burlington Free Press
"'She said, 'What is it about you Americans and your need for security?'" He told the woman she was lumping him in with a global view of Americans; he said she eventually found the two had more in common than she first thought. The encounter prompted Crowell to write a song, "Don't Get Me Started," that anchors his latest album, "The Outsider," read cover story...
by Brent Hallenbeck
QUOTES
“After listening to The Outsider, the latest addition to the rejuvenated Rodney Crowell’s stellar trilogy of 21st-century albums, I can say without a doubt, somewhere out there a pulpit is missing a first-class preacher... Thank you, Reverend Crowell. Hallowed be your name, too”
JOHN NOVA LOMAX / THE HOUSTON PRESS
"Like Randy Newman, Crowell inhabits his characters absolutely. It’s this that makes his bleak satire hit home so hard. That blue collar is grubby with shades of grey.
THE GUARDIAN
"'Say You Love Me,' a three-chord rave-up, sounds for all the world like The Replacements backing Roger McGuinn."
PASTE
"Crowell afficianados can now more or less be divided into two camps: those who still consider The Houston Kid to be the finest album of his career, and those who think he actually did it one better with 2003's Fate's Right Hand. The Outsider, which Crowell has rightly described as his most "emotional and politcal" record to date, will likely throw both groups for a loop ...(it) officially caps the hottest three-album streak in Texas music since Steve Earle's triumphant Train A Comin' - through - El Corazon."
TEXAS MUSIC MAGAZINE
"That Rodney Crowell has been on a creative roll of late is an understatement, and the third in a trilogy of introspective masterworks sees no decline in genius but an uptick in rockability.”
BILLBOARD
"...disquieting observations and eloquently angry broadsides, couched in a musical vernacular ranging from folk and rock to funk. The Outsider is delivered with the forthrightness, jive and firepower of a hip Southern Baptist preacher."
UNCUT (UK)
"Given the numerous classics he has written for others and the No. 1 hits he has scored on his own, it seems incredible to say that Rodney Crowell is doing his best work at this late date -- but he is."
Dan Duchholz, CHICAGO TRIBUNE
"At a time when so many of his generation have opted for cruise control, he has shifted into overdrive."
Don McCleese, NO DEPRESSION
"...one of the great singer-songwriters in country, in America, for the last two decades ."
Ron Rosenbaum, NEW YORK OBSERVER
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