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.  
rpeluso
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.

Aren’t they all? ;-) At least Rodney fared better than Howie Epstein (Tom Petty’s bassist), who got entangled with Rosanne’s half sister Carlene Carter, daughter of June Carter and her first husband (whom she left for Johnny Cash), the also-Country singer Carl Smith, from whom she got her strikingly good looks (Carlene in her prime was SO hot).

Before Howie, Carlene had been with Nick Lowe, who later wrote a song entitled "Homewrecker" ;-) . Howie and Carlene were at one point arrested in New Mexico driving a stolen vehicle and in possession of heroin, an overdose of which later put Howie six feet under. Rock ’n’ f*ck*n Roll, dude! I’ll save my knowledge of Dwight Twilley and Susan Cowsill’s escapades for another time. I know of them ’cause my first wife was later with Bill Pitcock IV, Twilley’s guitarist.

I'm familiar with the Carlene and Howie tragedy.  Carlene seems to have gotten herself back together and put out a couple of good albums, minus the blonde hair and short skirts though.
Isn't Carlene the artist who said she wanted to put the "see you next Tuesday" back into country music?
Yeah, that's her.  The way I heard it, Johnny and her mom were in the audience when she said it.