Songwriter Rodney Crowell grew up in Houston and Jacinto City before finding success as a...
“My parents, with their genetic predispositions and personalities, were part of how I expressed myself,” Crowell says. “My father, who loved to sing, and my mother who loved to make up.”“That laid the groundwork for me becoming a songwriter,” he says of his raising.
Crowell is quick to offer admiration for later albums by Dylan or Leonard Cohen. He does not subscribe to the notion that radiant youth creates the best songs, necessarily. Rather, songwriting is a craft of repetition, editing and wisdom. He’ll play his numerous 1980s hits for fans at shows, and those songs don’t cause him any sort of creative anguish.
Crowell admits he, too, is surprised, that he’s still in possession of seemingly disposable scraps from his past. Fortunately, he also possesses a curiosity about those scraps. But the ‘90s were less kind commercially, and by 2001 the measure for success had changed. Crowell that year released “The Houston Kid,” a reflective album about his youth here. It made no gestures toward mainstream radio play, but drew overwhelming acclaim for the quality of the writing.
While Crowell’s more recent work has certainly landed with those who admire and appreciate a well-crafted sung piece of lyric writing, one of the great services provided by “Word for Word” is presentation of his ‘90s songs — those that got lost between the cushions of his youthful and venerable successes.
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