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The songs here are vital and timely, touching on everything from love and mortality to race and religion, and the performances are nothing short of intoxicating, fueled by raw guitars, honky-tonk piano, and tight, punchy drums. Tweedy wields a light touch as a producer, his influence subtle yet unmistakable, and engineer Tom Schick's mixes are dynamic and alive, alternately lush and spacious in all the right places with a spotlight fixed firmly on Crowell's warm, weathered vocals throughout. Put it all together and you've got a masterful, cross-generational collaboration that manages to feel both fresh and familiar all at once, an incisive, engaging collection that balances careful craftsmanship with joyful liberation at every turn.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New West Records","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50445733757259,"sku":"2016860","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50445734150475,"sku":"2016863","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50445734641995,"sku":"2017195","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/test_444d628c_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727044403"},{"product_id":"triage","title":"Triage","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Triage' offers a rare look inside of the songwriter. This album finds Rodney Crowell introspectively looking for answers and for healing, resulting in what he has called his most personal record yet. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis new collection of songs was written during the great political, environmental and economic upheaval that has marked recent years. The noise of that chaos encouraged Crowell to look inward for solace and answers. The result is this series of songs that contend with these themes, but approaches them from a place of healing, love and solution. That they are being released while we find ourselves walking through a global pandemic, is a gift of perfect timing. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"RC1 Records","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50474708566347,"sku":"1122364","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50474709221707,"sku":"1122365","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/33e19e3f-d6a9-4ead-b266-68eccd806206_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727437482"},{"product_id":"the-houston-kid","title":"The Houston Kid","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe conventional way of talking about The Houston Kid, Rodney Crowell’s 2001 release and the greatest achievement of his 50-year career, is autobiographically. From this way of thinking, the album pretty straightforwardly looks at Crowell’s life growing up in the poor, white working-class parts of Houston, Texas in the 1950s and 1960s, the only child of J.W. and Addie Cauzette Crowell’s tempestuous, dysfunctional union. Hearing The Houston Kid this way isn’t wrong, of course, but it is incomplete.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vinyl Me Please","offers":[{"title":"Grey LP","offer_id":50497688076619,"sku":"2225241","price":34.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/test_3e8571bc_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727730321"},{"product_id":"airline-highway","title":"Airline Highway","description":"\u003cp\u003eFull of deep empathy, sober insights, and lively guitar licks, Rodney Crowell’s new album takes its title from a seemingly mundane stretch of four-lane blacktop that runs deep into Louisiana. It’s the road he and producer Tyler Bryant drove to reach the remote studio where they recorded these songs, hauling a truckload of gear on a two-day journey that ended in swamps. Along the way Crowell looked up the route they were driving: \u003cem\u003eAirline Highway\u003c\/em\u003e. It’s the southernmost segment of Highway 61, also called the Blues Highway or the Great River Road, and it follows the Mississippi River from Minnesota down to New Orleans. Crowell is intimately familiar with this part of the country. He grew up on the east side of Houston, just a few hours west of the state line, and made wild forays into Louisiana as a young man to drink or carouse or mostly to catch live music. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAirline Highway\u003c\/em\u003e is an album full of old, abiding loves, whether it’s a favorite song or a lover you remember fondly. Songs like “Sometime Thang” and “Rainy Days in California” (the latter featuring Lukas Nelson) raise a glass to old romances and encounters with different women in California or down in Louisiana: falling in love, toughing out hard times, growing apart until they become “that small voice on your phone,” to quote a devastating line on “Taking Flight,” co-written with and featuring Ashley McBryde. Some are fictional, Crowell explains, but they all contain some kernel of truth. \"At a basic level there are a lot more years behind me than there are ahead of me. Now it’s just about the work and what a blessing it is to be able to do it. The work truly feeds me in the moment.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New West Records","offers":[{"title":"LP - Cobalt | Signed","offer_id":51910200131915,"sku":"R2662-6339","price":37.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD | Signed","offer_id":51910200066379,"sku":"R2662-8623","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP - Black","offer_id":51910200099147,"sku":"R2662-3060","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":51910200164683,"sku":"R2662-1957","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/unnamed-2025-05-28T092030.515.jpg?v=1748420440"},{"product_id":"think-again-1","title":"Then Again","description":"\u003cp\u003e“I guess you could call it a lost album,” says Rodney Crowell. “I stumbled upon it in my vault at home. I’d forgotten about it completely.” He’s referring to Then Again, which he recorded and shelved two decades ago before moving off into new directions. Since then, the album has been biding its time, waiting for the moment when its songs would hit hardest. And they hit incredibly hard now, largely because age and experience have granted Crowell a richer perspective. “I’m glad I put it on the shelf, because now is the time for it. It may not be the time for it for the rest of the world, but it’s time for it for me. That’s why I wanted to call it Then Again. I thought that was a clever way of saying that what was happening then is happening now. Once lost and now found, Then Again is something the Rodney Crowell of the 2000s could never have predicted but something the Rodney Crowell of the 2020s recognizes instinctively: a work of nuance, insight, and sensitivity that considers death but celebrates life. “I’m trying to understand that this spirit of mine is going to leave this body and go off somewhere else. I’ve got a pretty good idea that it’s going to be someplace good, but I still need to perfect some part of my spiritual journey here before I check out. I can see that in these songs now.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New West Records","offers":[{"title":"LP - Swamp Green (Signed)","offer_id":57046182527307,"sku":"R6216-1485","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP - Black","offer_id":57046182560075,"sku":"R6216-2793","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD (Signed)","offer_id":57046182592843,"sku":"R6216-6212","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":57046182625611,"sku":"R6216-6023","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/unnamed-2026-04-16T083936.919.jpg?v=1776325185"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/collections\/rodney-crowell.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}