Even with his most successful work, Rodney Crowell knows there’s always room for revision. In 2018, the celebrated singer-songwriter took another crack at the lyrics to “Shame on the Moon,” a 1982 cut ...

When we think back on the early 2000s, a few country songs stand out. As much as we love the fierce nature of Miranda Lambert’s “Kerosene” and Carrie Underwood’s “Before He Cheats,” when it comes to ...

Grammy-winning artist and long-time Music Health Alliance supporter, Rodney Crowell, has enlisted a number of his all-star friends, for Songs From Quarantine, a digital compilation of rarities ...

Having started his career strictly as a songwriter, Rodney Crowell‘s catalog has no shortage of tracks performed by other artists. From mid-tempo crooners from Mary Kay Place to smoldering metaphors ...

He has been a long-time supporter of the Music Health Alliance. “I am on the board of Music Health Alliance, and after COVID hit, I got in touch with some supportive artists and I got them to either ...

After more than four decades in music and a vast collection of songs he’s written for himself, and artists like Emmylou Harris, Johnny Cash, Keith Urban, and many others, Rodney Crowell decided it was ...

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) ...

As Pat Boone watched the protests and clashes nationwide after George Floyd’s death in police custody in May, the 86-year-old singer thought about a song he’d written but never released nearly 30 ...

NPR Music critics reflect on the lyrics that captured the year's mood, sparked emotions and stayed with them long after the music stopped.