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 ...

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 ...

Art can and often does feel different to the artist than to the audience, and the Rodney Crowell song that Willie Nelson once dubbed “one of the greatest country songs” is no small exception. The ...

Willie Nelson will celebrate his 92nd birthday this April with his 77th solo studio album, as the country legend has announced his latest LP Oh What a Beautiful World. Due out April 25 — four days ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As one century turned into another, Rodney Crowell left behind his career as a country hitmaker and embarked on a second career as a literary singer-songwriter with his 2001 autobiographical album The ...

It’s fun to hear Willie Nelson sing such words as “ninja,” “fishmonger” and “absinthe,” which are among the many pleasures found in the songbook of influential country songwriter Rodney Crowell. “Oh ...

Every personal year-end list should begin with a disclaimer. Here's mine: Nothing below captures the range of my listening habits over the last 12 months. There's no ratio of new to old music ...

West Coast rapper Rodney O has filed a lawsuit against fellow recording artists Kendrick Lamar, Future, and Metro Boomin over unpaid royalties from “Like That,” the song that elevated the rift between ...

Smith's latest EP 'Love Lost' came out in July Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the music team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2019, and her work has previously appeared in ...