Rodney Crowell

Taking his cues from the rock & roll primitivism of such late-'70s British power-popsters as Nick Lowe and Dave Edmunds, Rodney Crowell became an important link between the hippie-era country rock of Gram Parsons and the post-punk Americana of Lucinda Williams and Ryan Adams; Crowell even did time in Emmylou Harris' Hot Band. His style of singing and songwriting owes more to the playfulness of Bud...