Rodney Crowell - Loving You Is the Only Way to Fly from 'The Chicago Sessions' released on May 5, 2023 | Beehive Candy

    I found this over at Beehive Candy and don’t always give them the credit they deserve as they always post interesting folk. Rodney Crowell is more my generation and I’ve always enjoyed his stuff so I was delighted to read the following:

"Rodney Crowell will release The Chicago Sessions on May 5, 2023, via New West Records. The 10-song set was produced by Jeff Tweedy and recorded by Tom Schick at Wilco’s Loft in Chicago. The masterful, cross-generational collaboration follows Crowell’s acclaimed 2021 album Triage. Hailed by Rolling Stone as a “country music trailblazer” and by The New York Times as an artist whose songwriting “gets better and sharper with age,” Crowell delivers an incisive, engaging collection that balances careful craftsmanship with joyful liberation at every turn. Sounding both fresh and familiar, it’s among Crowell’s very best work."

As Jeff Tweedy puts it, “The way that Rodney writes is deeply connected to a classic era of country songwriters that I’ve always loved. In my estimation, it’s as close as I can get to working with Townes Van Zandt or Felice and Boudleaux Bryant — people who crafted songs with a very specific sensibility. And I like being near that.”

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Single of the Week :: Rodney Crowell - "Everything At Once (feat. Jeff Tweedy)" [Official Music Video]

 Everything Everywhere All At Once

RODNEY CROWELL

Everything At Once

 . . . . . . . or nothing at all!

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Nanci Griffith - The Last of The True Believers - Desperadoes Waiting For a Train - Aquarium Drunkard

Lovely article and tribute to Nanci Griffith here from the Aquarium!

The Last of The True Believers - Nanci Griffith - Aquarium Drunkard

 

On the July 21st, 1998 episode of The Late Show with David Letterman, a murderer’s row of country and folk songwriters were arranged on the stage. They were performing Guy Clark’s “Desperados Waiting for a Train,” and Clark himself was there to kick things off. Jerry Jeff Walker, Steve Earle, Rodney Crowell, Jimmy Dale Gilmore, and Eric Taylor would also take turns singing, but the central figure, the reason all of these songwriters were there, was the lone woman on stage:Nanci Griffith.

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Nanci Griffith walked a very fine line that can be difficult as an artist. Her songs contained politics just in the very nature of being about humans and humanity. But while it was obvious that some of her songs were about her own experiences, so many others were about the people out there that she met, knew or otherwise saw. And that widescreen view of what life is about is a huge part of what made her music endearing and relatable across generations. Sometimes empathy can be some of the most radical politics of all.

"Thanks for the wisdom, Nanci." |article by  j neas