Online Program: Live At The Hall: Poets And Prophets: Salute To Songwriter Rodney Crowell

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Rodney Crowell

Rodney Crowell

Rodney Crowell started his career in his native Houston, Texas, playing drums in his father’s honky-tonk band at age 11. Significant moments in his musical growth included meeting and becoming friends with major songwriting influence Guy Clark in Nashville and joining Country Music Hall of Fame member Emmylou Harris’s heralded Hot Band in California. He has written more than a dozen #1 hits, inlcuding "’Til I Gain Control Again" (Emmylou Harris, Crystal Gayle), "I Ain’t Living Long Like This" (Waylon Jennings), "Leaving Louisiana in the Broad Daylight" (Oak Ridge Boys), "I Don’t Know Why You Don’t Want Me" (Rosanne Cash), "Shame on the Moon" (Bob Seger), "Ashes by Now" (Lee Ann Womack), "Please Remember Me" (Tim McGraw), "Song for the Life" (Alan Jackson) and "Making Memories of Us" (Keith Urban). As a recording artist, Crowell hit his stride when his 1988 album Diamonds & Dirt yielded five #1 country singles, including "After All This Time." The song, which he also wrote, won Crowell a Grammy for Best Country Song. During this program, Crowell performs and is interviewed by the museum’s Michael Gray. Presented in support of the exhibit Outlaws & Armadillos: Country’s Roaring ’70s.

Stream on-demand on the Museum’s YouTube channel, Facebook page and website starting with the premiere on Tuesday, May 10, at 7 p.m. central.

Live at the Hall is underwritten in part by the Ford Motor Company Fund.