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Rodney Crowell

Just home from a wonderful evening, Rodney along with two great players (guitar and fiddle) playing many many great and wonderful songs, not all his own either.  He did Guy Clark and two Haggard songs (today is Merle's birthday and "deathday", if that's appropriate/correct/not offensive).  A truly great artist, and a pleasure to experience.  
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Sounds great. I’d like to hear him with a full band, well actually I’d be happy to see him any way. I saw his first wife not too long ago and she was really good.
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One of the handful of my favorite contemporary songwriters, singers, and all-around music makers. I’ve seen & heard Rodney in the flesh only once, in the 00’s at The Roxy in Hollywood. He was touring with "only" a guitarist (longtime sideman Steuart Smith) and bassist (the legendary---amongst good musicians---Jerry Scheff, who has been in the bands of both Elvis Presley and T Bone Burnette, and is on thousands of recordings, including Costello’s King Of America).

The lack of a drummer actually allowed one to better hear Jerry’s bass parts, and they were astonishingly great! He is the best bassist I’ve heard live, and that includes Rick Danko (The Band), Joey Spampinato (NRBQ. Keith Richard’s 1st-call bassist), and John Entwistle (I’ll assume you know of him ;-).

The room was full of other songwriters, singers, and musicians, all there for a master class in music making. which they got. It was fantastic!

@tomcy6, Rosanne was actually Rodney’s second wife. He’s now on his third ;-) .

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Rodney's really doing great work now and seeing him with Steuart Smith would be a real treat.  I'm not familiar with Jerry Scheff but he's got to be good to travel in that company.

Let's hope Rodney finishes up with wife number three.  He's mellowed out a little.

I read an article about Rosanne and at a show somebody in the audience yells out, "I love you."  Rosanne looks at him and says, "You don't know me.  I'm difficult."  I'd bet she is.
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