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Rodney J. Crowell (born August 7, 1950) is a American country music singer/songwriter who is considered to be part of both the alternative country and the mainstream country music camps. For three years he was part of Emmylou Harris' "Hot Band"; later he gained mainstream popularity as a solo performer with a series of critcally-claimed albums released during the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Crowell was born in Houston, Texas to James Walter Crowell and Addie Cauzette Willoughby. Read more on Last.fm
Maybe Crowells definitive recorded statement, Fate’s Right Hand is everything he was evolving towards in the late 90’s, a spiritually heavy, emotionally confident tour de force, diversified from his peers in its flirtations with cow punk and alt country stylings. He’s always been hyper literate, peppering songs with archaic references to literature and pop culture trivia. Here, he stuffs the record so full of them that you’d think something wouldn’t work. But, it does, and in a big way.