35 Facts About Rodney Crowell

Rodney Crowell has written songs and produced for other artists.

Rodney Crowell was influenced by songwriters Guy Clark and Townes Van Zandt.

Rodney Crowell played guitar and sang for three years in Emmylou Harris' Hot Band.

Rodney Crowell 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.

Rodney Crowell was born on August 7,1950, in Houston, Texas, to James Walter Rodney Crowell and Addie Cauzette Willoughby.

Rodney Crowell came from a musical family, with one grandfather being a church choir leader and the other a bluegrass banjo player.

Rodney Crowell's grandmother played guitar and his father sang semi-professionally at bars and honky tonks.

Rodney Crowell later met and befriended fellow songwriter Guy Clark, who became a major influence on his songwriting and vice versa.

Rodney Crowell accepted and left the following day to join Emmylou in Los Angeles.

Rodney Crowell himself criticized his debut album for not translating onto vinyl the same clarity and energy he felt in the studio.

The album Rodney Crowell was released in 1981 by Warner Bros.

In 1981, Rodney Crowell put his career on hold to produce several of his wife Rosanne Cash's albums.

In 1984, Rodney Crowell returned to working on his own music career and recorded what was to be a new album for Warner Bros.

Rodney Crowell continued to enjoy success as a songwriter in the 1990s and 2000s.

In 2001, after a brief hiatus from recording, Rodney Crowell released The Houston Kid on Sugar Hill Records, his first studio album since 1995's Jewel of the South.

Many songs on the album were semi-autobiographical, and the album included a duet Rodney Crowell had recorded and released as a single in 1998 with his ex father-in-law Johnny Cash, "I Walk the Line Revisited".

Rodney Crowell followed up this effort with Fate's Right Hand in 2003 and The Outsider in 2005, both of which appeared on Columbia Nashville, a division of Sony Music.

Rodney Crowell was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2003 with fellow inductees Hal Blair, Paul Overstreet and John Prine.

In 2005, Rodney Crowell served as producer for established Irish singer-songwriter Kieran Goss on the album "Blue Sky Sunrise".

In 2007, Rodney Crowell was inducted into the Music City Walk of Fame.

In 2009, Rodney Crowell wrote Wynonna Judd's title track to her album Sing: Chapter 1, which was released in 2009.

Rodney Crowell produced Chely Wright's 2009 album, Lifted Off the Ground.

Karr wrote the lyrics and Rodney Crowell set them to music.

Rodney Crowell performed four tracks on the album; one as a duet with Kris Kristofferson.

On January 26,2014, Rodney Crowell won his second Grammy Award when Old Yellow Moon won the Grammy for Best Americana Album.

Rodney Crowell released his first album on New West Records, Tarpaper Sky, on April 15,2014.

Rodney Crowell co-produced the record with his long-time collaborator, Steuart Smith.

In 2015, Rodney Crowell provided background vocals on "It Doesn't Hurt Right Now", a song he co-wrote with Jewel for her album Picking Up the Pieces as well as on "Holy War", a track which appears on I Am the Rain, a 2016 album by Chely Wright.

On December 20,2016, Rodney Crowell released a music video for the song "It Ain't Over Yet", which features guest vocals from Rosanne Cash and John Paul White as well as harmonia from Mickey Raphael.

In 2019, Rodney Crowell received the Poet's Award from the Academy of Country Music for his achievements in songwriting.

Rodney Crowell released a collaborative album, titled TEXAS on August 15,2019.

In 1975, Rodney Crowell married Martha Dant Watts, and their daughter Hannah was born in May 1976.

The brief marriage ended in divorce, with Rodney Crowell retaining custody of Hannah.

Rodney Crowell was married to Rosanne Cash from 1979 to 1992 and they had an influence on each other's careers, with Rodney Crowell producing most of her albums during that period and her success influencing his songwriting.

Rodney Crowell married Claudia Church in 1998; they live south of Nashville.