Rodney Crowell (born August 7, 1950) is an American musician, known primarily for his work as a singer and songwriter in country music. Crowell has had five number one singles on Hot Country Songs, all from his 1988 album Diamonds & Dirt. He has also written songs and produced for other artists.He was influenced by songwriters Guy Clark and Townes Van Zandt. Crowell played guitar and sang for three years in Emmylou Harris' "Hot Band".He has won two Grammy Awards in his career, one in 1990 for Best Country Song for the song "After All This Time" and one in 2014 Best Americana Album for his album "Old Yellow Moon".
I was raised on country music, not quite Appalachian but certainly the Roy Acuff, Hank Williams version of it. Of course I was just of an age when all the good music that came along inspired me too.
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I don't really invite myself to take full ownership of what I've accomplished because the carrot is still way out there in front of me. I like it that way because it seems to me that if I ever had any self-satisfaction that would be the kiss of death for the artist's life that I want to lead and that I love to lead.
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There are those things that I've cobbled slowly, one couplet at a time, and labored over, and then poof! one day there it is, and it takes on life. Truman Capote said great books aren't written, they're rewritten.
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I came here as a guy with a pretty deep knowledge of music, but I hadn't started writing my own. I hadn't found my voice and my vision, and I was lucky enough to fall right into this creative group of poets. Johnny Cash was a poet, more powerful than his global Man in Black persona.
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A lifelong Hank Williams fan and aficionado, Rodney became the obvious choice to coach British actor Tom Hiddleston for his role as Williams in the biopic I Saw the Light (2015). Hiddleston actually moved into Crowell's Nashville home to undergo a crash course in singing and guitar playing country style.
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Daughters (with Rosanne Cash): Caitlin Rivers (born in 1980), Chelsea Jean (born in 1982) and Carrie Kathleen (born in 1988).
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He has a band, with Vince Gill, called the 'Notorious Cherry Bombs'.
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He wrote and recorded "Making Memories of Us". Written for his wife Claudia, and recorded by both Rodney with the 'Notorious Cherry Bombs', and Keith Urban - who released it as a single, which became a #1 hit - "Memories" has become a romantic song favored by many.
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